Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus …

Course materials play a vital role in the foreign language classroom. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to analyzing the activities that foster oral interactional ability in EFL course materials. For the purpose of this study, a coding scheme was designed that focuses specifically on …

Little is known about the effects of different instructional approaches on learner affect in oral interaction in the foreign language classroom. In a randomized experiment with Dutch pre-vocational learners (N = 147), we evaluated the effects of 3 newly developed instructional programs for English as …

This article explores ways to assess interactional performance, and reports on the use of a test format that standardizes the interlocutor’s linguistic and interactional contributions to the exchange. It describes the construction and administration of six scripted speech tasks (instruction-, advice-, …

Sinds kort is er binnen leesonderzoek aandacht voor negatieve motivatie. Amerikaanse onderzoekers hebben de toegevoegde waarde van begrippen als 'vermijding' en 'ervaren moeilijkheid' bij leesvaardigheid onderzocht bij leerlingen. Hun studie lijkt erop te wijzen dat positieve en negatieve motivaties …

Het vmbo bestaat nu ruim 13 jaar. Tijd voor de beantwoording van de vraag hoe het ervoor staat in de nieuwste onderwijssector. Wat is er in het vmbo op pedagogisch-didactisch gebied allemaal gebeurd? Er wordt in het vmbo hard gewerkt aan onderwijsinnovatie en schoolontwikkeling, met onder andere ook …