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Powerful teaching for foreign language newcomers: What role can I play as a classroom teacher?
A foreign language newcomer in the classroom: it can be a tough challenge for you as a class teacher. You may receive support at your school from an AN teacher or care coordinator, but even then it is not always easy to know how best to support …
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Primary school language policy
An example of an elaborated language policy.
The example is from the Heilig Hart school in Heverlee.
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Building blocks for effective language programmes: Practical guide for language support in nursery, primary and secondary education
The manual is a practical guideline for researching language integration processes. It provides a practical guide to language support.
This guide describes six building blocks that help you stimulate language development and support students …
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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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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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Simple actions to optimize the class atmosphere: Information bundle
In this information bundle for teachers you will find simple actions to optimize the class atmosphere for (refugee) child and teacher.
The collection is the result of the bachelor's thesis by Tanja Cappaert and Stephanie Verstraeten to Thomas …
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Back to (school) language: Language boost after distance learning and summer vacation
During the summer, children and young people lose some of their knowledge and skills gained from the past school year. Distance learning for the holidays was an added factor. Vulnerable, multilingual and foreign-speaking children are particularly …
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Need to create learning materials
This article provides tips for making games, for example to support the NT2 lessons. It describes experiences with the development of need-oriented teaching materials, tailored to the student.
Indirectly it is advertising for Smartphoto, with which …
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Evaluation of multilingual learners
Imagine two students who are equally good at math, but one is not good at Dutch and the other is. They do not have the same chance of a good score on a math test because the student's language skills determine his score.
What can you as a teacher do …
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A picture is worth 1000 words!
Van Dale is proud to present a new series of language study books. To support the learning of a language, the Van Dale Picture Dictionaries Fr, En, Du, Sp and It are indispensable and a practical tool for your students. Click here for more …
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Equal opportunities in education: Recommendations by young people
These recommendations come from Bataljong, a youth project of the Tumult organization. The young people also made a statement about this theme.
These infographics have been developed tailor-made for teachers.
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NT2020 professionalization initiatives
NT2020 involves three professionalization initiatives. First of all, a lot of further education is planned where any NT2 teacher can enroll. Since this school year, learning networks NT2 are also organized. Finally, a practical study is offered, …
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