Erklären Sie mal auf Arabisch oder Englisch! – Mehrsprachige Praktiken als Scaffolding im (berufs- und fachorientierten) DaF-Unterricht

<vh:p>The article explores how multilingual practices are used as a scaffolding strategy in teaching German as a foreign language by teachers in Jordan. It examines sequences of interaction in university GFL language courses at different language levels in the context of Arabic, German and English. Learners and teachers, who took part in the study, are multilingual and use multilingual practices in different ways and to different degrees. The article focuses on sequences in various courses and course levels: e.g. as the linguistic act of explaining, modelling or questioning. The video-recorded data is analysed using (multimodal) interactional analysis. The study shows that teachers often use multilingual practices in classroom interaction as a scaffolding strategy for knowledge transfer and problem solving (e.g. through language comparison, questions or explanations), although communication remains largely in the target language, in this case German, so that the teaching objectives of grammar teaching are also achieved.</vh:p>