🇳🇴 Norwegian Language Courses
Subject specialist teacher: Linda Fredrikke Martinussen
Email: norsk@kurskollektivet.no
Hi! My name is Linda, and I am an enthusiastic assistant professor in Norwegian language didactics, with second language acquisition as my field of expertise. I have more than twenty years of teaching experience from primary school, upper secondary school, adult education and university, and I have developed the Kurskollektivet Handbook with a language portfolio and self-produced learning materials.
A couple of years ago, I was involved in developing and teaching a further educational program for teachers in adult education, with the aim to enhance language teachers' competencies. I offer lectures and workshops for teachers in addition to Norwegian classes for adults. Kurskollektivet has always been close to my heart, cultivated with great attention and personal commitment since I founded the company in 2012. So far, more than 800 learners have attended our Norwegian courses.
The courses are based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the Curriculum for Norwegian language training for adult immigrants, and is suitable for learners who are motivated and independent, but who also want to work together with others. We want our participants to use all their plurilingual resources, and translanguaging is an important pedagogical strategy in our lessons. Therefore, we always map new participants' overall language competence and past experiences with learning languages.
If you are new to our courses, you need to make an appointment for mapping and assessment of your current language skills in order to create your Kurskollektivet Language Portfolio. The Kurskollektivet Language Portfolio is a further development of the European Language Portfolio. This is an important tool that helps you to plan, monitor and evaluate your own language learning process in order to develop a deeper understanding of how you learn and what works for you. We work systematically to help our learners develop strong learning strategies and awareness of their own learning process. The portfolio and our own flexible, differentiated learning materials are made available digitally via a handbook on our learning platform, Moodle. We believe in adapting our teaching to our learners - not the other way around!
When you take a Norwegian course with us, you also create your own language learning plan that you implement, adapt and discuss with your teachers and other learners in your group. You learn to use self-assessment forms and write language learning logs. You also receive concrete suggestions for further areas to work on after each course. This means that you come away with new tools you can use independently of our teachers or the course itself.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
