International Conference: language education for sustainable development

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Climate and energy crises can result in a lack of orientation, a breakdown of order and a blocked view of solutions (Grimm & Wanning 2021). Approaches to solutions must be developed and negotiated in discourse (Hoiß 2019). In order to be able to follow and participate in controver-sial discussions, both cognitive skills and the ability to formulate correctly are required (Sippl et al. 2023). This topic therefore offers both a starting point and a target point.
The BMBF-funded ARCHĒ project works with the relevant topic of hydrogen, the use of which is considered a climate-friendly alternative in areas such as energy, industry and mobility. Accord-ing to the orientation framework for the learning area " Globale Entwicklung " (KMK & BMZ, 2006), which aims to develop skills in the areas of recognizing, evaluating and acting, learners should be enabled to classify and reflect on information in a broader context. This is why we alternately confront them with problem - solution - problem sequences, which the learners should understand ("recognize"), classify ("evaluate") and continue ("act") within the frame-work of planning discourses.
The aim of the project is the interlinking of educational language tools and a learner-sensitive material pool to promote the comprehension and linguistic processing of content. Therefore, in our Sek I-specific sub-project we are developing an adaptive architecture for language development, which supports the improvement of receptive, productive and re-flective language skills in the area of connecting information. In addition, a material pool, which includes multi-modal presentations of different aspects of the topic "hydrogen", is being developed, providing a basis for learners to write explanatory products and implement their own planning discourses, while presenting and categorizing connections, contradictions and limitations in a linguistically appropriate manner.
The material is being developed within a design research study and iteratively tested, evalu-ated and revised.

Yvonne Elger is a research fellow at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Münster. She is working on the BMBF-funded project ARCHĒ, which aims to develop an architecture for language development using the example of climate and energy discourse. In addition, she is working on her dissertation on the topic "developing language skills through structured contextual reflection".