Part 1 of English as a Medium of Learning in Schools addresses key approaches and terminology related to teaching and learning subjects through English in primary and secondary schools. In addition, it presents a range of benefits and some challenges that teachers and learners face in EML contexts. Benefits …

Introduction of the special issue ‘Exploring the multilingual family repertoire: ethnographic approaches'.

Summary A question that received considerable interest from language teachers and researchers alike is what corrective feedback (CF) should look like to be maximally beneficial to learners’ second language development. This chapter zooms in on two feedback types that have been distinguished in the CF …

The aim of this study was to assess the criterion validity of a new screening instrument, the Early Language Scale (ELS), for the identification of young children at risk for developmental language disorder (DLD), and to determine optimal age-adjusted cut-off scores. We recruited a community-based sample …

De gemeente heeft als missie om bij te willen dragen aan zelfsturing van de gemeenschap vanuit de gedachte dat een gemeenschap wordt gevormd door betrokken inwoners. Daarvoor heeft de gemeente medewerkers nodig die deze missie begrijpen. De huidige missietaal wordt als abstract ervaren waardoor er behoefte …

The purpose of this study was to determine if there are differences in overall language ability and vocabulary of either Australian or overseas born bilingual Dutch–English children and the possible parental influence on these children’s language development. The participants were 86 children aged 4–12 …

Parental support is critical for young children’s language and literacy development. It is important that teachers are aware of this parental role. Particularly in the case of lower‐educated parents, teachers can improve their education when they engage parents in partnerships to support young children’s …

This guide accompanies the following article: Van der Pluijm, M., Lusse, M., Van Gelderen, A., & Kessels, J. (2020), Creating partnerships between schools and lower-educated parents to enhance young children's language development: A formative evaluation. Review of Education https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.324 …

Welke aanpak kunnen leraren van jonge kinderen gebruiken om partnerschappen aan te gaan met laagopgeleide ouders met als doel de taalontwikkeling van hun kinderen te stimuleren?

Educational linguistics lays at the interface of contributions from linguistics (in our case focused on L1) and education. It aims at teaching students in compulsory schooling how to engage in fruitful reflection when facing both language in use (especially in the written mode) and language as a system, …