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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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Story Dice: Writing stories with dice
With StoryDice's digital story dice, your students can determine the content and order of a storyline by digitally rolling the dice.
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Distance learning via WhatsApp: Practical example
Practical example of Linda Van Duin of ANT2 , how she approached distance learning in the Netherlands with her ISK students (the equivalent of the Flemish OKAN classes) during the first week of the suspension of the lessons. She uses WhatsApp and …
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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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Boost your foreign languages with Netflix
Blog post explaining how Language Learning with Netflix works.
Via this extension you can play subtitles on Netflix in two languages in a Chrome browser and look up vocabulary in a foreign language.
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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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6 strategies to learn a new language faster
In this article you will read some ways to boost your language acquisition.
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What is the difference between you and you or you and you?
The reason why you use you and you or you and your mistake sometimes is that you don't really hear the difference between the two words. But when you write them, there is a very important distinction. What exactly is that distinction and how …
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D, t or dt: Explanation and donkey bridges
Do you also find it so hard to know when to write d, t or dt? You are certainly not alone. Through this blog we show you that it does not necessarily have to be complicated to use d, t or dt correctly. With these handy donkey bridges you will …
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What is intermediate language?
Article about language varieties, divided into three major groups: standard language, dialects and intermediate language.
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Ten teaching ideas for speaking practice
In this package you will find ten ideas and speaking assignments that allow students to speak freely in the classroom. The emphasis of these exercises is on speaking together, telling, presenting, describing, reconstructing and also listening to …
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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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