Code
22D07808
Duration
03 July 2008 → 30 November 2008
Funding
Funding by decentralised authorities
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Linguistics
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
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Social sciences
- Education curriculum
- Education systems
- General pedagogical and educational sciences
- Specialist studies in education
- Other pedagogical and educational sciences
Keywords
Turkish
language proficiency
pretesting
preschool children
dutch
evaluation research
metalinguistic awareness
emergent literacy
education
home language
multilingualism
immigrants
Project description
Within the framework of the Home Language in Education project a pretesting is carried out among all pupils in years 2 and 3 of preschool education in the participant schools, as well a control group of pupils sampled from a number of comparable schools. The testing concerns language proficiency, in particular concepts (Dutch and Turkish) and metalinguistic avareness (emergent literacy).