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The ‘I’ in CLIL. ‘Integration’ in a context of Content and Language Integrated Learning: focus on the collaboration between subject and foreign language teachers and the consequences of this collaboration for their Pedagogical Practices. KU Leuven

Jan Elen
Instructional Psychology and Technology
CLIL is an educational innovation that was officially launched in Flanders in September 2014. The acronym CLIL stands for 'Content and Language Integrated Learning'. Hence, the name itself refers to a form of 'integration' between both the content and the (foreign) language. This integration is also referred to by the term 'dual focus' (Flemish Government, 2014, p. 7).Since it is assumed that CLIL teachers work in an 'integrated' way, i.e. ...

The impact of instruction and out-of-school exposure to foreign language input on learners’ language proficiency in two languages KU Leuven

Elke Peters
Language and Education, Antwerp Campus, Linguistics Research Unit, Leuven

This cross-sectional study investigated the impact of formal instruction and informal language language learning on learners’ language proficiency in two foreign languages: French (first foreign language) and English (second foreign language). We collected data from three subgroups: language learners in grade 8, grade 10 and the first year at university. Despite fewer years of English instruction, participants’ scores on a vocabulary and ...

Research Language Integration Projects. University of Antwerp

Jordi Casteleyn
Didactica
How can schools develop effective pathways for learners who have an insufficient command of the language of instruction? Schools need concrete tools and feasible practical examples that match the needs and context of primary and secondary education in Flanders. In this project, we develop a nuanced, systematic meta-review of the scientific literature, resulting in a scientific report on the one hand and a practice-oriented, paper and digitally ...

i-LAP: The role of Input in English and French LAnguage Proficiency KU Leuven

Elke Peters
Language and Education, Antwerp Campus, Linguistics Research Unit, Leuven, Language and Education, Brussels Campus
This cross-linguistic proposal aims to advance our understanding of the input-acquisition relationship by investigating the mechanisms underlying language learning by learners who have English and French at school, but who are exposed to large amounts of English outside of school and have a later starting age for formal English instruction than for French. Language learning “can only take place when learners are exposed to input” (Ellis & ...

Development of key package for language exams French ans NT2 for teachers Hasselt University

Martine VERJANS
Center for Applied Linguistics
In November 2011 CTL-UHasselt was assigned the contract by AKOV, the (Flemish) Agency of Quality Assurance in Education and Training (Agentschap voor Kwaliteitszorg in Onderwijs en Vorming) to develop language tests of French and Dutch (NT2, Dutch as Foreign Language) for personnel and teaching personnel of Flemish primary and secondary schools, centres for student counseling, inspection and centres for Adult Education (CVO) in Flanders and in ...

De koppelwerkwoorden ser en estar in het licht van recente taalkundige benaderingen en van het onderzoek in tweede-taalonderwijs The copulas ser and estar in the light of recent linguistic approaches and the research in second language teaching KU Leuven

Nicole Delbecque
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven

Las cópulas ser y estar a la luz de enfoques lingüísticos recientes y de la investigación en la enseñanza de segundas lenguas

The copulas ser and estar in the light of recent linguistic approaches and the research in second language teaching

Key words: Spanish, copulas, adjectival predicates, evidentiality, grammar teaching

The copulas ser and ...

Towards EURO 2012 with Polish and Ukrainian Language. Hasselt University

Willem CLIJSTERS
Center for Applied Linguistics, Center of Applied Linguistics
Project Euro 2012 is addressed to participants, visitors and football fans coming to the European Football Championship, which will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine in the summer 2012. Apart from logistical support(accomodation, travel, stay) the participants will need practical language guide and cultural information package, helping them to participate in Euro 2012 and move in hosting countries without communicative barriers. Aim of the ...

Non scholae sed vitae? An Empirical Study on the Cognitive Transfer Effects of Studying Classical Languages in Flemish Secondary Education Ghent University

Marc Janse
Department of Linguistics, Department of Experimental psychology, Department of Literary Studies

Do smart pupils study classical languages (CLs), or does studying CLs make pupils smart? Anglo-Saxon research suggests that Latin pupils surpass their Latin-less peers in L1 ability c.q. English, and that studying Latin possibly has a positive effect on mathematical skills as well. However, it has not been settled whether these results are due to preselectivity (pupil influx) or cognitive transfer (one task affecting another). While a ...

MELT (Multilingual Readers‘ Theatre) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pierre Van De Craen
Language and literature
The project aims at developing a multilingual guided reading program to improve reading fluency as well as reading motivation in all languages for pupils in grades 6, 7 and 8. The didactic-methodological design developed for this purpose addresses three key issues in language teaching didactics and foreign language didactics.

Lesetheaterskript InformationResults of major reading performance studies over the past decade have shown that ...