This study provides insight into Vocational Education & Training (VET) students’ plurilingual repertoires, their behaviours during and attitudes towards interactions in daily life, school and work. A multi-modal approach comprising language mapping, reflective discussions and focus group (FG) interviews with VET students in the Netherlands (N = 38) shows that both heritage- and majority-language students possess rich plurilingual repertoires which are used in distinctly different ways in daily life and at work, but not at school. Students generally possess an open attitude towards plurilingualism, which is tempered by perceived limitations in language proficiency and language retrieval difficulties. The study shows that students’ existing plurilingual competences, and issues encountered when employing these, are currently neither recognised nor addressed in the school context. Implications for education are formulated.
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Inaugurele rede uitgesproken in verkorte vorm bij de aanvaarding van de positie van lector Meertaligheid en Geletterdheid aan de NHL Stenden Hogeschool. In deze rede gaat Joana Duarte dieper in op het thema meertaligheid in het onderwijs vanuit een sociolinguïstisch perspectief op het noorden van Nederland.
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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 include the development of teacher and learner language; active and interactive subject teaching and learning; effective thinking in both content and language, and subject resources that widen cultural perspectives. Challenges focus on the language demands of subject content, knowledge of subject content and rethinking how to teach subjects in EML
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