Berlin: Students in ninth classes lose German competence - worrying trend

The students of the ninth classes in Berlin have great difficulty to speak, write and understand German. An investigation by the Institute on Quality Development in Education (IQB) at the Humboldt University has shown that the level of competence has decreased significantly in recent years. The institute's scientists find that this decline in language skills has been primarily related to the two major immigration and refugee waves since 2015.

Local effects in Berlin

in Berlin is the proportion of families in which German is never spoken or only German, even higher than the average throughout Germany. According to the IQB report, 32 percent of families in Germany never speak German or only sometimes German, but in Berlin this proportion is much higher. This language problem at home has a negative impact on learning the students and intensive language support at school alone is not enough to catch up with this gap.

effects on the level of performance

Studies have shown that the increase in students who do not understand sufficient German to learn to learn to reduce the level of performance in the classes. Teachers are dependent on the students to understand simple texts and reflect the content in order to convey the teaching material. If this is not the case, the negative effect on the entire training of the students.

consequences of uncontrolled migration

In Berlin, the consequences of uncontrolled migration come to light significantly. Many people have immigrated with little education or have not done enough to appreciate their children appropriately. The teachers face a problem that they cannot solve alone. This raises the question of whether it is possible to accept more and more people who fail because of the education without the country suffering from it.

Source: According to a report by www.bild.de