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Meertaligheid in het mbo

Deze inventarisatiestudie laat zien hoe mbo-docenten Nederlands en Engels denken en rapporteren over hun handelen ten aanzien van het erkennen en benutten van meertalige competenties voor studie en beroep. Met betrekking tot studie laten de resultaten zien dat docenten twijfelen aan de voordelen van meertaligheid en liever geen andere talen dan het Nederlands of Engels laten gebruiken in de klas. Met betrekking tot beroep wordt duidelijk dat docenten aangeven veel taaloefening te bieden in beroepssituaties, maar niet in meertalige beroepssituaties. Met name bij het oefenen met mediërende strategieën en Engels als lingua franca verschillen de opvattingen en gerapporteerde praktijken van docenten Nederlands en Engels van elkaar.

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Communicatief toetsen binnen het vreemdetalenonderwijs

Leerlingen die hun hele schoolcarrière goede cijfers hebben gehaald voor vreemde talen, zoals Frans, Duits of Spaans, blijken toch slechts beperkt in staat om in die talen te communiceren. Wat zeggen deze cijfers dan? Wordt er wel op de juiste manier getoetst in het vreemdetalenonderwijs? En wat zegt het eigenlijk over de onderwijsactiviteiten die de leerlingen op deze toetsing voorbereiden? Dit is wat wij onderzocht hebben in de eerste fase van een promotie-onderzoek het vreemdetalenonderwijs?

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Designing a communicative foreign language assessment program for Dutch secondary schools

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 tend to focus on knowledge of grammar rules and vocabulary out of context. Under the principle of constructive alignment, assessment and learning activities should be in line with learning objectives in order to enable effective teaching. Evaluation in particular plays a key role, because it has a direct impact on teachers’ pedagogical choices and students’ learning behavior (i.e., washback effect). To enhance alignment in the Dutch FL curricula of lower form education, the first author and 21 FL teachers collaborated to create a realistic, theoretically grounded communicative assessment program that would enable positive washback. This paper takes inventory of the challenges faced by teachers during the co-design process and the decisions that have been made to overcome them.

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Designing a communicative foreign language assessment program for Dutch secondary schools

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Constructive alignment in foreign language curricula

While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is recognised as an effective approach worldwide, its implementation in foreign language (FL) classrooms remains difficult. Earlier studies have identified factors impeding CLT implementation, such as a lack of communicative lesson materials or teachers' more traditional views on language learning. In the Netherlands, CLT goals have been formulated at the national level, but are not always reflected in daily FL teaching and assessment practice. As constructive alignment between learning goals, classroom activities and assessments is a precondition for effective teaching, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of the degree of alignment in Dutch FL curricula and the factors influencing it. The current study therefore aims to take a systematic inventory of classroom practices regarding the translation of national CLT goals into learning activities and assessments. Findings revealed that teaching activities and classroom assessments predominantly focused on grammar knowledge and vocabulary out of context and, to a lesser extent, on reading skills. External factors, such as teaching and testing materials available, and conceptual factors, such as teachers' conceptions of language learning, were identified to contribute to the observed lack of alignment. Assessments in particular seem to exert a negative washback effect on CLT implementation.

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Transforming foreign language teaching practices through communicative classroom-based assessment programs

In today’s foreign language (FL) education, teachers universally recognise the importance of fostering students’ ability to communicate in the target language. However, the current assessments often do not (sufficiently) evaluate this. In her dissertation, Charline Rouffet aims to gather insight into the potential of assessments to steer FL teaching practices. Communicative learning objectives FL teachers fully support the communicative learning objectives formulated at national level and embrace the principles of communicative language teaching. Yet, assessments instead primarily focus on formal language knowledge in isolation (e.g., grammar rules), disconnected from real-world communicative contexts. This misalignment between assessment practices and communicative objectives hampers effective FL teaching. CBA toolbox The aim of this design-based PhD research project is to gather insight into the potential of assessments to steer FL teaching practices. To this end, tools for developing communicative classroom-based assessment (CBA) programmes were designed and implemented in practice, in close collaboration with FL teachers. Rouffet's dissertation consists of multiple studies, in which the current challenges of FL education are addressed and the usage of the CBA toolbox is investigated. Findings reveal that assessing FL competencies in a more communicative way can transform teaching practices, placing communicative abilities at the heart of FL education.

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Transforming foreign language teaching practices through communicative classroom-based assessment programs

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Constructive alignment in foreign language curricula

While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is recognised as an effective approach worldwide, its implementation in foreign language (FL) classrooms remains difficult. Earlier studies have identified factors impeding CLT implementation, such as a lack of communicative lesson materials or teachers' more traditional views on language learning. In the Netherlands, CLT goals have been formulated at the national level, but are not always reflected in daily FL teaching and assessment practice. As constructive alignment between learning goals, classroom activities and assessments is a precondition for effective teaching, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of the degree of alignment in Dutch FL curricula and the factors influencing it. The current study therefore aims to take a systematic inventory of classroom practices regarding the translation of national CLT goals into learning activities and assessments. Findings revealed that teaching activities and classroom assessments predominantly focused on grammar knowledge and vocabulary out of context and, to a lesser extent, on reading skills. External factors, such as teaching and testing materials available, and conceptual factors, such as teachers' conceptions of language learning, were identified to contribute to the observed lack of alignment. Assessments in particular seem to exert a negative washback effect on CLT implementation.

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Transforming foreign language teaching practices through communicative classroom-based assessment programs

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