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A Study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers ' Language Stimulatin COmpetenceS (LASCOS) KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden
Language, Education and Society, Leuven, School Psychology and Development in Context, Arteveldehogeschool, Odisee, Universiteit Gent

The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor of learning success. Although research shows that high quality teacher-child interactions are crucial for academic language learning, paradoxically, a wide range of classroom interaction studies point to the relatively poor quality and low quantity ...

A study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers' Language Stimulating COmpetenceS (LASCOS) Ghent University

Maribel Montero Perez, Piet Van Avermaet
Department of Linguistics, Department of Educational Studies, Artevelde University College Ghent, KU Leuven, University College Odisee

The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood

education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language

skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor of learning

success. Although research shows that high quality teacher-child

interactions are crucial for academic language learning, paradoxically, ...

A study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers' Language Stimulating COmpetenceS (LASCOS) KU Leuven

Jantine Spilt
School Psychology and Development in Context

The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor of learning success. Although research shows that high quality teacher-child interactions are crucial for academic language learning, paradoxically, a wide range of classroom interaction studies point to the relatively poor quality and low quantity ...

Adding Plurilingual Approaches to language Teacher Competences in Higher Education (APATCHE) University of Antwerp

Kris Peeters
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
The aim of the APATCHE project is expressed by its acronym and title. It is to "Add Plurilingual Approaches to language Teacher Competences in Higher Education", by raising awareness through various publications, dissemination events, a methodology for curriculum development and an online training course. Plurilingual approaches to language learning and teaching are approaches that value all languages present in the increasingly multilingual ...

Survey on Language Competences in Flanders. KU Leuven

Rianne Janssen
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven, Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation
This project comprises the execution of the European Survey on Language Competences (ESLC) in Flanders. This survey is carried out by order of the European Commission and aims to provide member states with comparable data on foreign language competence (reading, writing and listening) in the two most widely taught official European languages (choosing from English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). In Flanders, research standards determined ...

Language policy: towards a dynamic model of language competencies for international companies in Flanders University of Antwerp

Lieve Vangehuchten
Grammar and Pragmatics, Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP)
Multinational companies operate in several countries and their employees often speak different languages, whichgives them a multilingual profile. Management needs to make sure that the communication between the employeesand with the customers is still effective. It is tempting to think that adopting English as a company language(language policy) solves all communicative problems. But if not all employees or customers are native speakers ...

A study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers’ LAnguage Stimulating COmpetencieS (LASCOS) KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden
Language, Education and Society, Leuven

The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor of learning success. Although research shows that high quality teacher-child interactions are crucial for academic language learning, paradoxically, a wide range of classroom interaction studies point to the relatively poor quality and low quantity ...

Toolkit broad assessment of Dutch language competencies for secondary education KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden
Language, Education and Society, Leuven, Centre for Language and Education, Leuven, Language, Education and Society, Antwerp Campuses
A Toolkit Broad Assessment (TBA) will be developed that enables teachers to assess the school language competencies of students in secondary education in a broad and functional way. The TBA, which is accessible online, is not a new test or just another 'new' evaluation tool. The TBA encompasses all existing language tests and assessment tools for Dutch in secondary education (as well as at the end of primary education) and places them in a clear ...

Toolkit broad assessment of Dutch language competencies for primary education. KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden
Language, Education and Society, Leuven, Centre for Language and Education, Leuven
A Toolkit Broad Assessment (TBA) will be developed that enables teachers to assess the school language competencies of students in primary education in a broad and functional way. The TBA, which is accessible online, is not a new test or just another 'new' evaluation tool. The TBA encompasses all existing language tests and assessment tools for Dutch in primary education (including the tests and tools situated at the transition of nursery to ...