AbiBac

The AbiBac is a German-French Abitur .

The term AbiBac is an artificial word made up of the first syllables of the terms ' Abi tur' and ' bac calauréat', the French equivalent of the German Abitur. Both Abi and Bac are colloquial as short names for the respective degree.

The AbiBac has been offered since the 63rd Franco-German consultations in Mulhouse in May 1994. The qualification is fully recognized in both countries as a higher education entrance qualification without having to apply for equivalence.

The lesson

Depending on the duration of schooling ( G8 or G9 ), the AbiBac is prepared in the last two or three school years in the upper school level , either in so-called AbiBac classes or, for the most part, in the normal course system, with certain course choices (e.g. advanced course French) are compulsory. Students can be taught according to their own curriculum, different from the German and the French, but inspired by both; in Berlin z. B. on the other hand, the same curricula according to which non-bilingual students are taught. Focus in the classroom and in the examinations are in German schools, the French language and two in French given content subjects , in French schools The same applies to the German language .

At the AbiBac schools, students are introduced step by step to the AbiBac upper level from grade 5 (bilingual train) if possible. For example, the students have more intensive language lessons in French, for example six hours a week in the 5th grade. From grade 7 onwards, the subject subjects are taught less and less in the mother tongue , but rather bilingual , i.e. increasingly in French; the number of hours is also often higher than in the regular curriculum.

In the AbiBac classes or courses, two subjects are always taught in French, namely always history , geography or political science or social sciences . Which second subject besides history is taught in Germany is a matter for the federal states and can be decided differently depending on the school or school year. There are no common curricula for these subjects (geography, political / social sciences), but each federal state determines the procedure individually. The AbiBac history curriculum, on the other hand, is uniform in France and nationwide in Germany. In France, history and geography are regarded as a single subject (histoire-geography), and the curricula for this are also nationally uniform.

The curricula for French are a matter of the country.

The exams

In French, the examination tasks are a matter for the state or the federal states. In principle, however, the examination requirements for AbiBac students should not exceed those that are placed on regular high school graduates in French. Accordingly, AbiBac students at French schools are tested in German at the same level as their classmates in the regular Baccalauréat.

In Germany, the AbiBac exams are also taken in French in both subjects. Each federal state creates the examination tasks itself according to its own regulations. Second corrections or review of the AbiBac examination papers are carried out by an examiner from the partner country. However, only specialist knowledge is assessed in these exams. Linguistic correctness only plays a role insofar as the students must be able to present facts correctly and understandably. In France, the language regime is correspondingly mirrored.

The success rate of AbiBac students is given as more than 94% (CIEP).

AbiBac schools

A school must clarify its options for participating in the AbiBac program with the responsible ministry of education. The participating schools are obliged to maintain a partnership with a school from the other country, but the student exchange does not necessarily have to be systematic, rather the partnership serves the general exchange of experience and the deepening of language skills and should also represent a basis for German-French friendships .

In 2017, 84 French Lycées offered the AbiBac, with a corresponding number of German schools with this possible qualification, which do not all have to be in Germany, e.g. B. the International German School Paris .

The AbiBac should not be confused with another Franco-German Abitur that is awarded exclusively at three grammar schools.

literature

Susanne Geiling-Hassnaoui : Le potentiel interculturel de l'enseignement de la littérature en cours de Langues. L'exemple de la section AbiBac en France. Full text. Also as a print: Universaar, Saarbrücken 2017. Zugl. Diss. Phil. Saarland University 2015

Web links

List of participating schools in both countries

Individual evidence

^ Website of the French Embassy in Berlin : Chronology since 1948 , last accessed on January 18, 2011
↑ As of the 2016/2017 school year

[1] Website of the French Embassy in Berlin : Chronology since 1948 , last accessed on January 18, 2011

[2] As of the 2016/2017 school year