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Dutch language stimulation outside school: Inspiration guide
Children and young people who strengthen their Dutch outside of school increase their chances in society. We can use the relaxing and creative potential of language in care and leisure activities. By using Dutch in different contexts and …
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Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Language Education: Course
Artificial intelligence is more than just ChatGPT. Several digital applications that are useful in language teaching are based on AI.
During the session you will be introduced to three digital tools that you can easily and free of charge use in …
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Lesson in Reading: Inspiration guide for effective reading education in preschool, primary and secondary education
This guide contains 16 inspiration cards, each starting from a key question about reading and reading education. Each question is answered on the basis of recent scientific research, supplemented with practical tips and concrete examples.
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Get started with textless picture books and talking boards for all ages
Textless picture books and discussion boards are tools to stimulate language development and multilingualism. This applies to both language learners with Dutch as their home language (NT1) and to language learners for whom Dutch is the second …
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Learn language: Review of book
"A book that absolutely must be read not only by school teams, but also by policymakers."
Lieven Coppens writes an honest review about that book by Koen Jaspaert and Carolien Frijns about how language development works, how our image of …
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Exploring the carillon of the University Library in Leuven
Did you know that the carillon is a Flemish invention (anno 1510!) and that Leuven belongs to the worldwide top with five carillons? Discover all about this enormous instrument with your class during a visit to the library tower. The carillon in …
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Chicken or egg?: Towards strong language education in primary school
Language is a vicious vehicle. We need language to teach the subject matter at school
can understand and learn and refine that language at the same school.
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What works for low-literate young people in language education?
A UAntwerpen project developed two practical guides for language education for low-literate young people. With the most recent scientific insights that are translated into classroom practice.
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Workshop: Writing Poetry
During the Poetry Writing workshop we learn how to write a poem that leaves no one unmoved . We start with a number of basic exercises around rhyme, style, sound and rhythm. We then go into more detail about the message we want to communicate …
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Guest lessons GAIA vzw
Content and approach: Our guest lessons last 2x50 minutes.
In a language tailored to children and young people, our educators let students think about human-animal relationships in an interactive, fascinating and pedagogically responsible …
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Media concentration in Flanders 2016
The Flemish Regulator for the Media, the independent regulator for the Flemish audiovisual media, published the Media Concentration in Flanders 2016 report.
The general conclusion of the 2016 report is that:
- Convergence and cross-mediaity are …
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Workshop 4: 3,2,1, … Action! How to inspire each other to bring about change as ordinary heroes
A witness tells on video how he saved several lives during the genocide on the Rwandan Tutsi. In what way did other well-known and lesser-known heroes resist in history? And what were the consequences? These stories can inspire us to take an …
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