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Peter Lenz

Research manager

+41 26 305 61 78
peter.lenz@unifr.ch

Research interests

  • Development of instruments for assessment and testing of communicative language proficiency (quantitative methods in particular)
  • School- and course-based foreign language learning

Peter Lenz is president of EALTA, the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment
Research projects (direction)
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Title
Verification of the attainment of the basic competences 2017 (ÜGK 2017) in the first language at the end of primary school: task development
Status
Completed
Commissioned by:  Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK) In the spring of 2017, the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education conducted the first ever largescale assessment to measure... more
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Verification of the attainment of the Basic Competences in foreign languages at the end of compulsory schooling (ÜGK/COFO 2020)
Status
In progress
Commissioned by: Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education  For the second time, the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education is verifying how well students are mastering the Basic Competences... more
Title
Framework curriculum to promote language skills of migrants
Status
Completed
Commissioned by: State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), financed by the Swiss Confederation’s “crédit d’intégration” This project commissioned by the State Secretariat for Migration dealt with developing a framework... more
Title
Literature review: literacy development for adult migrants
Status
In progress
Literacy courses designed for adult migrants have been offered for decades in countries experiencing significant immigration. The recent past has seen an increase in research on the teaching and learning processes that... more
Title
Innovative forms of assessment
Status
In progress
If the aim is to measure how well learners can actually use a foreign language, then competence-oriented testing with near-authentic tasks is the method of choice. There is, however, a need for renewal in the design of... more
Title
Task Lab: The influence of foreign-language teaching methodologies on language learning in adult migrants in low-threshold language courses
Status
Completed
In the spring of 2017, the CDIP/EDK assessed for the first time the basic skills in the first foreign language of schoolchildren at the end of primary school. On the basis of this assessment, the “Passepartout cantons... more
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Mapping developmental profiles in early language learning at school
Status
Completed
In collaboration with the University of Teacher Education St. Gallen (PHSG) and the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
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The influence of foreign-language teaching methodologies on language learning in adult migrants in low-threshold language courses
Status
Completed
There is little verified, i.e. empirically based knowledge about how second-language courses should be best designed to meet the specific needs of adult learners in low-threshold language courses. The aim of this... more
Title
HarmoS: Final revision of the national educational standards for foreign languages
Status
Completed
Commissioned by: Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education EDK From 2006 to 2009, an official proposal for Swiss educational standards was formulated within the framework of the project HarmoS of the EDK.... more
Research projects (contributor)
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Title
fide Quality Commission of the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)
Status
In progress
In 2009, the Institute drew up the “Framework curriculum to promote language skills of migrants” and followed up by making a key contribution to developing fide, the Swiss system to promote the linguistic integration of... more
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Testing language skills of future teachers
Status
Completed
This project was realised within a DORE project of the University of Teacher Training Valais and examined the influence the bilingual study requirements have on future teachers’ ability to acquire professional skills.... more
Publications
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Publikationen (ab 1999)