Improvisational drama techniques (IDTs) can benefit foreign language (FL) learners by offering them an engaging way to practise speaking while hiding behind the safety of a character mask. This study aimed to glean perceptions toward and experiences with IDTs among FL student teachers, as well as training …

Taal speelt een essentiële rol in het leren, ook in zaakvakken zoals wereldoriëntatie of geschiedenis. Soms worden deze vakken in het Engels gegeven (CLIL). We ontwerpen lesstrategieën en lesmaterialen om het leren in CLIL-contexten bevorderen door.

While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is nowadays widely recognized, the implementation of CLT in foreign language (FL) classrooms remains difficult. In the Netherlands, communicative learning goals have been formulated at the national level, but in daily practice assessments and learning activities …

Dutch secondary school pupils seldom speak the foreign language in class, citing anxiety as a primary factor (Haijma, 2013). Implementing improvisational drama techniques (IDTs), however, could help ameliorate this situation by generating positive affective reactions, such as confidence and joy, and …

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 …

This reports is about content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in multilingual primary classrooms. While in theory CLIL offers many opportunities for inclusive education in multilingual settings, questions remain as to how integrated language teaching can be realised, and what teacher knowledge …

Een leeromgeving waarin leerlingen zich tot zelfverzekerde, meertalige sprekers kunnen ontwikkelen vraagt om het erkennen en benutten van al hun talenkennis.

Kennisnemen van onderzoek over taalleren en taalonderwijs kan bijdragen aan het reflecterend vermogen en de professionalisering van (NT2-)docenten (competentie B4); wetenschappelijke inzichten kunnen als basis dienen voor reflectie op en onderbouwing van didactische keuzes. Uit internationaal onderzoek …