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Foreign-speaking newcomers in the classroom: Study evening
Building bridges between OKAN education and further education.
In Flanders, the number of OKAN students (Reception Education for Foreign-Speaking Newcomers) increased from 2,000 to more than 8,000 students between 2017 and the beginning of 2023. In a …
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Looking back on OKAN: Reflection document
In this document, OKAN students look back at the lessons in the OKAN classroom and evaluate themselves and then look forward to the lessons in regular education. The following aspects are evaluated:
- classes,
- classmates,
- teachers, …
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Leisure activities with OKAN students: Knowledge clip and teaching material
In this knowledge clip, a few final-year students of the Bachelor of Social Work at Artevelde University College Ghent explain how you can make the search for leisure activities among OKAN students more accessible by organizing a leisure market. …
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First OKAN. Now I CAN!: A guide full of resources for the (ex-)OKAN student
Tool to support non-Dutch speaking students during and after their reception year in an OKAN class, with clear step-by-step plans, sheets, writing and speaking frameworks, websites and a brief grammar overview.
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Guidance plan for ex-OKAN students
What commitment do the school, the student and the parents take? What agreements are made? What basic care and what enhanced care is provided for the ex-OKAN student? Does the student receive exemptions?
This plan provides a clear overview of …
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Question words: Poster
This is a poster with the main question words, each time with a drawing.
- Interrogative pronouns: who, what, what, what for (whose have I left out)
- Adverbs that we use as question words: when, why, where, how, with what and how much.
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Verbs: Practice cards and quartet
Practice cards with a selection of the hundred most commonly used verbs in Dutch for my non-Dutch speaking newcomers.
One PDF consists of 56 cards with an image on the front and the conjugation of the verb in the present tense and the past participle …
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Sentence structure: Board cards and card game
Sentence structure in Dutch is quite complex material for non-native newcomers. Lars uses board cards in the reception class to visualize the sentence structure during instruction moments and various assignments. The same cards are also used in …
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Frequently used words in tasks and tests: Glossary
In this document you will find a list of words that are often used in tests, tasks, and assignments. With each word there is a little more explanation of what is expected.
Handy for students who have difficulty with language or with contextual …
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OKAN: Database with tools, background information and teaching materials
As students of secondary education at Howest, Morgan Foré and I created a website : OKAN-learning resources offers an overview of as many online and offline materials as possible to learn the Dutch language.
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An ex-OKAN student in my class. What now?
Every year, several thousand ex-OKAN students move on to regular education. They are going through a turbulent period and are experiencing language and often learning delays. 'They can use all the help during that catch-up race,' says follow-up …
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Numbers and numbers: Reading and writing
Theory and exercises on numbers and numbers reading and writing with remedial number inversion, the difference between -tig or -ten, special numbers and pronunciation.
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