Academic language proficiency as a predictor of academic achievement. A validity argument of a low-stakes post-entry academic reading and vocabulary screening test for first-year university students. KU Leuven
The transition from secondary to tertiary education is often conceived as difficult, into a new culture with specific rules, conventions and language use (van Kalsbeek & Kuiken, 2014; Wingate, 2015). In Flanders, where, except for Medicine and Dentistry, there are no entry requirements or selection mechanisms, the follow-up of incoming students is important. Success rates of first-year students are low, at the KU Leuven in 2019-2020 for ...