Binnen de stage is een HMI-vertaaltool met user interface gerealiseerd, waarmee medewerkers van Houdijk Holland een HMI in andere (natuurlijke) taal beschikbaar kunnen stellen. Hierbij is het mogelijk om als software engineer tijdens het vertalen aanpassingen aan de HMI te maken en voorkomt de tool …

Dutch secondary school pupils seldom speak the foreign language in class, citing anxiety as a primary factor (Haijma, 2013). Implementing improvisational drama techniques (IDTs), however, could help ameliorate this situation by generating positive affective reactions, such as confidence and joy, and …

Summary A question that received considerable interest from language teachers and researchers alike is what corrective feedback (CF) should look like to be maximally beneficial to learners’ second language development. This chapter zooms in on two feedback types that have been distinguished in the CF …

Leerlingen voelen zich in digitale omgevingen vaak meer ontspannen om zich in de doeltaal te uiten. Om die reden is het project Doeltaal Digitaal gestart, waarbij leerlingen van alle niveaus (vmbo, havo, vwo) online betekenisvolle taaltaken uitvoeren via video- en audiogesprekken en geschreven chat.

Part 1 of English as a Medium of Learning in Schools addresses key approaches and terminology related to teaching and learning subjects through English in primary and secondary schools. In addition, it presents a range of benefits and some challenges that teachers and learners face in EML contexts. Benefits …

Part 2 of English as a Medium of Learning in Schools examines effective ways of delivering EML in primary and secondary schools. It explores specific language that teachers need in order to explain subject concepts, to ask questions, and to respond, manage and model language for EML lessons. Planning …

The purpose of this study was to determine if there are differences in overall language ability and vocabulary of either Australian or overseas born bilingual Dutch–English children and the possible parental influence on these children’s language development. The participants were 86 children aged 4–12 …

Online social networks produce a visuality that reflects the attention economy governing this space. What is seen becomes elevated into prominence by networked publics that ‘perform’ affective expressions within platform affordances. We mapped Twitter images of refugees in two language spaces - English …

Pleidooi om in het nieuwe programma Cultuurparticipatie meer oog te hebben voor culturele democratie.

Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus …