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Get started with textless picture books and talking boards for all ages
Textless picture books and discussion boards are tools to stimulate language development and multilingualism. This applies to both language learners with Dutch as their home language (NT1) and to language learners for whom Dutch is the second …
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Simple reading texts for children with reading difficulties
Are you looking for a text at a lower AVI level without it being too childish?
Are you looking for a book or newspaper article for students with reading difficulties?The infochart contains four links to organizations or publishers that offer such …
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Learn language: Review of book
"A book that absolutely must be read not only by school teams, but also by policymakers."
Lieven Coppens writes an honest review about that book by Koen Jaspaert and Carolien Frijns about how language development works, how our image of …
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The usefulness of story writing in dyslexia therapy
A manual and seven tips to help children transfer the practiced spelling rules to daily writing activities in a fun and challenging way.
First you will get some explanation in the article about the development of spelling from word and sentence level …
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Need to create learning materials
This article provides tips for making games, for example to support the NT2 lessons. It describes experiences with the development of need-oriented teaching materials, tailored to the student.
Indirectly it is advertising for Smartphoto, with which …
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Summer School: Stimulating language acquisition in a playful way
In this article you can read how a lesson week at the summer school in Antwerp looks and comes about. Interaction and active language use are key concepts for good language education, just like creating a safe environment for the children. The text …Translated by
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School (language), parents and others
From an early age children speak different (types of) languages: with friends while exercising at home with the family at the table with the teacher in the classroom .... At school to follow, a good command of Dutch is important. That language is …
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Secondary schools with ex-OKAN students
A study by the Center for Language and Education (CTO) of the KULeuven shows that ex-class pupils end up more than other pupils in the BSO, DBSO or the BuSO. They get more C-certificates and fewer A-certificates. They often end up in the …
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Language and languages in a metropolitan context
The city is a multilingual and multicultural city. Young people often use other codes to communicate outside of school. The school is the main place where they hear Dutch. Schools in major cities often also have bigger problems with sitting …
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