Projects
Language Awareness Raising Ghent University
The project Language Awareness Raising in the Flemish primary education aimed to achieve the following goals: (1) to support the educational guidance services by involving them in the guidance of 6 primary schools; (2) to collect existing and to develop new teaching materials about language awareness raising; (3) to transfer knowledge from the educational guidance services to the SNPB.
Ancient Greeks - Young Heroes: ancient Greek language and mythology for primary school pupils growing up in multidimensional poverty Ghent University
The project Ancient Greeks - Young Heroes brings the Ancient Greek language and mythology to underprivileged children in primary school. UGent students annually teach Ancient Greek in East-Flemish primary schools, and teachers from all over Flanders also apply the teaching material in their own classes. This didactic material (available for free on our website) has been created based on pupil needs. Our research shows that not only does ...
Expedition Language Odisee vzw
i-LAP: The role of Input in English and French LAnguage Proficiency KU Leuven
A study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers’ LAnguage Stimulating COmpetencieS (LASCOS) KU Leuven
The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor of learning success. Although research shows that high quality teacher-child interactions are crucial for academic language learning, paradoxically, a wide range of classroom interaction studies point to the relatively poor quality and low quantity ...
Development of key package for language exams French ans NT2 for teachers Hasselt University
A Study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers ' Language Stimulatin COmpetenceS (LASCOS) KU Leuven
The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor of learning success. Although research shows that high quality teacher-child interactions are crucial for academic language learning, paradoxically, a wide range of classroom interaction studies point to the relatively poor quality and low quantity ...