Claudine
Kirsch

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Institute for Multilingualism

Claudine Kirsch is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education. Having taught nine years in a primary school in Luxembourg, she took her Masters and her PhD in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 2003 – 2011, she worked there as a lecturer, teaching on BA, PGCE, MA and PhD programmes. She set up and coordinated several courses including the primary Modern Foreign Languages programme and several bilateral exchange programmes. In January 2012, she was appointed at the University of Luxembourg where she teaches on BA, MA and PhD programmes.

Claudine Kirsch’s research interests include foreign/ second language learning and teaching, multilingual pedagogies, translanguaging, multilingualism, family language policies, early childhood education and language learner strategies. She has been/is the PI of several research projects: the project iTEO (2013-2017) which examined the use of the App iTEO for teaching and learning languages in preschools and primary schools, the project MuLiPEC (Developing Multilingual Pedagogies in Early Childhood) (2016-2019) and the project COMPARE (2020-2023) (Collaboration with parents and Multiliteracy in early Childhood Education). She also takes part in the project CALIDIE (Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education) (2017-2022).

Claudine Kirsch was vice-director of the Bachelor in Educational Studies (BScE), vice-director of the institute of Applied Educational Sciences and a co-leader of the Cluster ‘Early Childhood’ of the Research Priority in Education. She is currently the vice-director of the institute for Research in Multilingualism (MLing) and a member of the steering committee of the doctoral training unit CALIDIE.

Research interests
Foreign/ Second Language Learning and Teaching
Multilingualism
Early Childhood
Family Language Policies
Learner Strategies
Literacy

Latest content Claudine Kirsch took part in

Virtual Faculty
COVID-KIDS : how the pandemic affects children and adolescents?
Schools in Luxembourg are soon to reopen; some students have already been back now. Yet many questions remain. A central argument for reopening schools is that home schooling may increase educational inequalities and that children and teens can no longer cope with social isolation. These issues are now being explored in a study launched by researchers at the University of Luxembourg.
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Humanities
Developing multilingual pedagogies in Early Childhood
A successful professional development track helped professionals implement multilingual education in early childhood in Luxembourg. MuLiPEC, a research project from the University of Luxembourg, enabled 46 teachers and educators to better understand multilingualism and language learning, and move from monolingual to multilingual practices.
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Humanities
An app to promote narration, language development and multilingualism in schools
in 2013, facing the lack of specific or systematic programmes to further the development of multiple languages in Luxembourg, researchers of the University of Luxembourg turned to the Ministry of Education. Together, the institutions decided to address the need for the development of innovative didactic methods to manage and capitalize on the diversity and heterogeneity in Luxembourgish schools.
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