DfdS: Sprachstandsermittlung

Elke & Günter Reimann-Dubbers Stiftung

About this app

An app for determining language proficiency, which precedes the use of the German language support materials for starting school (DfdS) - the linguistically based, playful language support for German as a first and second language.

This app offers you a digitized version of the tried and tested German language proficiency measurement for starting school, with which you can determine the language proficiency of preschool children (4 to 6 years old) who need language support in German. The app makes linguistic evaluation and documentation of language status easier for you by automatically analyzing language data.

And this is how it works:
Carry out an entertaining and child-friendly language assessment with a child on a tablet.
The child describes situations that he sees in 15 funny pictures. The app automatically records the child's descriptions. Then write down the child's statements. And by clicking on "evaluate" you will not only receive an assessment of the child's language level in basic linguistic areas (sentence structure, vocabulary, use of articles in the case of "who"), but also a recommendation as to which parts of the German support material should be used for the start of school a child should be best supported depending on their language level.

The app also enables you to form linguistically uniform language support groups and to determine the developmental progress of your support children through further surveys.

You can save the results of each child as a PDF document, which makes it easier for you to document your language development.

And all of this works locally, without sending sensitive data to an external server and without requiring an internet connection!

The app is part of the overall German support concept for starting school (DfdS). It was developed at the Institute for German as a Foreign Language Philology at the University of Heidelberg with the financial support of the Elke & Günter Reimann-Dubbers Foundation and the Dürr Foundation (Hamburg).

Following this language proficiency assessment, you can use our apps for language support for the daycare sector (DfdS: Kita app) or for the primary school sector (DfdS: Primary school app), which provide comprehensive support materials for you.

But even if you don't work with the DfdS funding material, you can use this app sensibly because, in addition to the assignment to the DfdS funding phases, it also provides information about the children's language level in selected areas (such as sentence structure, vocabulary, article use) as well as, with repeated use, about their linguistic development progress over time.