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Advisor project Language profiles

The Taal in de stad within the AG SO is working through a project on a database of language profiles for every field of study within every finality in secondary education. The aim is to develop an instrument that enables class councils to make a correct assessment of the required language competence within a course of study and to compare this with the competence of a pupil to be oriented. In addition, the tool also provides incentives for targeted remediation based on the required language competences of the direction. Prof dr. Jordi Casteleyn is co-designing this project. He develops the methodology to determine the required language level per study area via anchor texts and to report on this efficiently via an online database. In the first instance, he and the AGSO project team are investigating in what respect existing writing tasks from the educational field are representative of the language level within the specialisation. Subsequently, the team develops guidelines on how teacher teams can arrive at categories of anchor texts in a substantiated way that are indicative of the different levels of mastery. Subsequently, the team checks which anchor texts can be included in the internal database, which can be consulted online, for each school, grade, field of study and finality. The criteria and proposed methodology are closely monitored by the project team in order to develop and guarantee equality in language competence within the secondary schools. In this way, different teams of teachers have access to and insight into the different linguistic competences that are typical for study options, which gives student orientation a greater chance of success. Such a tool is especially needed for pupils with a language-poor profile and/or an OKAN background. The current trial runs from September 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
Date:1 Sep 2022 →  Today
Keywords:LANGUAGE TEACHING
Disciplines:Language didactics
Project type:Service project