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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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Simple reading texts for children with reading difficulties
Are you looking for a text at a lower AVI level without it being too childish?
Are you looking for a book or newspaper article for students with reading difficulties?The infochart contains four links to organizations or publishers that offer such …
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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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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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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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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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Summer School: Stimulating language acquisition in a playful way
In this article you can read how a lesson week at the summer school in Antwerp looks and comes about. Interaction and active language use are key concepts for good language education, just like creating a safe environment for the children. The text …Translated by
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How a language policy develops and grows: Secondary education
This practical study (talentwedaagse, 2007) portrays how the Redingenhof adjusts its language and language courses policy because of the growing number of multilingual immigrants and the decline of the abstract cognitive language skills among …
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Secondary schools with ex-OKAN students
A study by the Center for Language and Education (CTO) of the KULeuven shows that ex-class pupils end up more than other pupils in the BSO, DBSO or the BuSO. They get more C-certificates and fewer A-certificates. They often end up in the …
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Language and languages in a metropolitan context
The city is a multilingual and multicultural city. Young people often use other codes to communicate outside of school. The school is the main place where they hear Dutch. Schools in major cities often also have bigger problems with sitting …
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