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We easily imagine that when highly educated professionals and specialists from other countries find employment and settle in Denmark, it is due to poorer working conditions, salary conditions, and employment situations in their home countries. Perhaps we overlook that a sense of adventure and a desire for exploration can be strong motivators for the wish…

Our foreign employees’ positive experiences of living and working in Denmark and participating in local community life is very much based on their involvement with the local school and the extensive system of clubs and associations. Both aspects create important ties among the youth, adults, and serve to engage newcomers and new citizens. Equally important,…

The married couple Nina Piletska and Yuriy Ivancheskul from Ukraine are both blind. This means that both the language and culture in their new country, Denmark, are more challenging to understand and assimilate. However, Skanderborg Municipality has established Danish lessons as a special offering for the two citizens in collaboration with Sprogcenter Midt. And a…

That digital methods can help strengthen the learning community is an interesting and surprising aspect of our work in developing digital methods in teaching at Sprogcenter Midt. Digital tools and methods make it easy to share and collaborate on texts, images, and audio in a natural flow in teaching. Establishing common writing processes and feedback…

Continuing education for all our teachers in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has a significant impact on our students' learning. When both newly trained and experienced teachers delve into this approach, refining their methods and cultivating their teaching techniques, it results in growth and improved quality. We asked two of ourteachers what the SFL training provides…

Digital skills are unavoidable. Therefore, for the past 1½ years, we have been systematically working on integrating IT literacy and digital competence into Danish language teaching at DU2. Our goal is to develop new methods and didactics so that students learn Danish using IT as a tool. This ranges from gaining control over a mousepad…

Alexander, Elena, Daniel R, and Daniel attend Danish lessons during working hours at their workplace. DKI Logistic in Horsens has prioritized Danish lessons for their international employees during working hours since summer 2022 and currently has three classes each week. The company aims to strengthen everyday language skills, sense of belonging, job satisfaction, and community…

Being able to behave digitally is also a life hack for non-readers or 'illiterate' international citizens. That they also have a first language, a mother tongue, which is a resource and a capital that we must exploit systematically, because it is a shortcut to acquiring the target language. These were central themes at a 3-day…

Easter this year was something very special for the 55 employees who went on a study trip to Utrecht in the Netherlands 🤩. After covid-19, decline in the language center area and challenges in general, it was a bit like when the cows come to pasture again in the spring. An experience of joy, anticipation,…

It seems like a matter of course - and yet it isn't🧐. It often requires that you are willing to let go of your own preconceptions, forms, future test requirements, etc. It requires that you really see the individual and dare to grasp the presence and the situation in the classroom. It requires that you…