Project - English version
MARE stands for Multiliteracy as a Labour Market Resource. Social acquisition conditions of multiliteral competence and their transformability into economic capital. It is the research program of a junior research group based at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Education, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the funding line "Junior Research Groups in Empirical Educational Research" (duration: 05/2021-04/2026, funding amount: 1.5 million euros).
The research program MARE aims to develop empirical knowledge about multilingualism as a labor market resource in educational biographies. Multiliteracy is conceptualized as a multidimensional construct of literacy skills (skills and knowledge) functional for structural integration. Multiliteracy as a multidimensional competence model, its empirical measurement, employment conditions, and effectiveness as a labor market resource will be examined. Secondary analyses of existing large-scale data sets from the studies Multilingualism Development over Time (MEZ, MEZ-2) and the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) will be conducted. A special feature of MARE is that multilingualism is empirically modeled as a multidimensional competence through objective test data on analog and digital reading and writing in German (majority language), Russian and Turkish (heritage languages), English and French (school foreign languages).