In general, teacher educators are considered to be educational specialists whose main task is to communicate content-based concepts to prospective teachers. However, unfortunately, most studies on teacher professional development overlook this specific language-oriented aspect of content-based teaching. …

Heeft een doordachte en verantwoorde doeltaaldidactiek gunstige effecten op het leren van leerlingen in het voortgezet onderwijs, en is zo’n didactiek duurzaam aan te leren door docenten? Om tot de antwoorden op deze vragen te komen, ontwierpen Sebastiaan Dönszelmann, Anna Kaal, Rick de Graaff en Jos …

The effect of bilingual education (BE) on the attitude towards learning English of pupils in the first three years of pre-vocational secondary education in the Netherlands (n = 488) was investigated. Contrary to several other BE/CLIL studies, in the present study pupils choosing for a bilingual stream …

This small-scale observational study explores how Dutch bilingual education history teachers (BHTs) focus on the L2 component in their CLIL-lessons. We observed and rated eight BHTs on five language teaching categories. Results show that Dutch BHTs focus more strongly on using the L2 to teach subject …

Openbare les Prof. Dr. Rick de Graaff, 24 mei 2018

Many studies have suggested that personal practical knowledge is essential for professional development. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the importance of teacher educators’ personal practical knowledge of ‘language’ for student learning development. However, the need for teacher educators …

The role of subject teachers in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has received little attention, since most research focuses on language learning results of students. This exploratory study aims to gain insight into the perceptions of Dutch bilingual education history teachers by comparing …

What lessons in terms of democratization can Bosnia and Herzegovina learn from Croatia’s accession to the EU? The objective of this study was to support the existing theory about the EU’s role in democratization and to provide insight on how the country can improve on the way it moves forward in its …

Het onderzoek naar vreemdetaalverwerving en de onderwijspraktijk in de moderne vreemde talen lijken twee werelden die niet veel gemeen hebben. Maar het tegendeel is waar. Taalonderzoek en taalonderwijs kunnen bouwen op elkaars inzichten: het begrip van essentiële verschijnselen als taal, communicatie …

Objective To explore how people with dementia, their informal caregivers and their professionals participate in decision making about daycare and to develop a typology of participation trajectories.Design A qualitative study with a prospective, multiperspective design, based on 244 semistructured interviews, …