Projects
Adaptation of and research on the usability of the Impact TOS questionnaire on children and adolescents within a school context among children of low socioeconomic status and/or multilingual background HOGENT
Say JEZ to Emotions!? Fostering Emotional Competence Among Mono-and Multilingual Children at School KU Leuven
In Flanders, considerable gaps in psychosocial well-being exist between majority and minority and hence, often multilingual, pupils. To date, research has primarily focused on the direct links between multilingualism and psychosocial well-being as well as school outcomes, foregoing the important role of emotional competence (the ability to perceive, understand and regulate emotions). In the school context, teachers are devoting more attention ...
Click it! A multilingual health aid for for foreign-speaking parents with young children. Ghent University
The project focuses on the valorisation and dissemination of a multilingual app that allows primary care providers to communicate accessibly with foreign-speaking parents who understand little or no Dutch. The app provides health information in 6 different languages (Dutch, English, French, Farsi, Turkish and Arabic) and supports caregivers in demand-driven consultations. The app improves access to quality health information and ensures that ...
Exploring the potential of alternative assessment designs for multilingual children in primary education. Ghent University
The proposed research evaluates whether monolingual testing practice can provide a complete picture of multilingual (ML) pupils’ abilities in content-related areas (e.g. science). In traditional tests, these pupils receive the test items and respond to them in the school language only. The hypothesis to be tested is whether monolingual testing practice crucially overlooks some of the pupils’ competencies, whereas ML testing may result in more ...
Language diagnostics in multilingual children: study of a scientifically based protocol to differentiate typical bilingual development from a developmental language disorder KU Leuven
Flemish primary education has 20-25% multilingual children (Jaarboek Statistiek Vlaams onderwijs, 2019). Both ASHA (2004) and IALP (2011) emphasize that multilingual children require appropriated diagnostics. However, to date there is no scientifically based protocol for language diagnostics in this heterogeneous and complex population. Master's theses LAW showed that, among other things, spontaneous language analysis in both native language ...
A multilingual STEM approach VIVES
CLICK IT! A multilingual app for the innovation of communication in healthcare. Ghent University
The project focuses on sustainable economic valorisation of the multilingual app CLICK IT! and explores the potential for marketing by license in the Flemish care sector. CLICK IT! allows care providers to communicate clearly and fluently with non-native parents about healthcare topics related to children, eg. medication, potty training. It provides health information in different languages (including Arabic, English, Farsi, French, ...
Training course on language stimulation and multilingualism in young children KU Leuven
The organization of a training and guidance program for the professionalisation of language policy teams in reception initiatives. Various routes are possible depending on the starting position and the need for the reception initiative.
Organization of a training course on language stimulation and multilingualism with young children KU Leuven
This concerns a training program on language policy in Leuven childcare facilities for young children.
The route includes:
* session language policy, what and how
* session language stimulation
* session practical work sessions 1 and 2
* coaching for individual childcare workers from the various daycare centers
* determine session priorities
* evaluate and ...