Aufgabe 1

TEIL 2: SPEZIFISCHE GRUNDLAGEN

(LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT)

Chih-Han Hsu 26.11.2023

Aufgaben: (1) Re lektieren Sie Ihre eigenen
Kompetenzen in 1-2 Ihrer Fremdsprachen.
Erstellen Sie eine (ggf. kurzkommentierte)
Selbsteinschätzung anhand von 3-4 von
Ihnen ausgewählten Kompetenzskalen
(Kap. 3-5im Begleitband, Europarat (2020))
culture speci ic. For the other two
competences there’s only one parameter
since it’s a valuation of the ability to make
use of different languages.

I use the English version to complete this

task.

I chose to self assess the 3 following

competences:
Building on pluricultural repertoire
Plurilingual comprehension
Building on plurilingual reportoire

I chose two cultures to evaluate “building

on pluricultural repertoire” since it’s
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BUILDING ON PLURICULTURAL REPERTOIRE

German-speaking part of Switzerland Italy

B1-B2 B2
 In order to acquire this competence, one has
to have interaction and experience with
people from different cultures. The
competence is based on how we deal with
this goal culture which is different from our
own.
The valuation of this competence is a very
interesting idea because the reference is a
culture instead of a language since one single
language could be used by different cultures
(e.g. German in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland)
The competence level is dif icult to evaluate
and verify, since its descriptors are more
general without speci ic and clear
de initions. (e.g. compared to reception and
production competences)
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When I tried to do the self-assessment, I
realised it’s also very dif icult to do it, if not
impossible. The risk lies in the fact that we are
not and can’t be aware of the things we’re not
aware of, i.e. if I missed out the opportunity to
recognise the cultural norm differences in a
situation and act accordingly, I couldn’t
recognise that I don’t possess this ability and
therefore assess myself correctly.
I was not so sure if this competence is single
culture speci ic, i.e. one can have a higher
competence with one culture and lower with
another. Or it can be valued as a competence
of sensitivity to all different cultures in
general. But after contemplation for me it’s
the former. One’s pluricultural repertoire
could have several different cultures inside
with different levels of competence.
PLURILINGUAL COMPREHENSION

B1-B2
In order to acquire this competence. One
has to possess at least two or more
language knowledges.

Switzerland provides a particularly good

environment to improve this competence
since it has 4 of icial languages and most
of the information is provided in 4
languages when possible.(German, French,
Italian and English)

The descriptors for B2 is quite abstract and

I wish there was an example to help me
understand it better.
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BUILDING ON PLURILINGUAL REPORTOIRE

C1
In order to acquire this competence. One
has to possess at least two or more
language knowledges.
As a new immigrant in Switzerland, I have a
lot of opportunities to practice and
improve this competence by switching
between German, English, French, Italian,
and Chinese.
Sometimes I experience situations when I
talk to a German-speaking Swiss in
standard German and they reply to me irst
in Swiss German and then in English
instead of standard German. I think it
reveals their preference of languages in
which they feel more comfortable to speak.

Since I only started to learn Swiss German

recently, I get to observe this competence
displayed by German-speaking Swiss with
level varies quite differently. Some are able
to alternate between Swiss German and
standard German very quickly depends if
I’m present in a group, some instead don’t.
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