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Project

Preliminary research home language in education of immigrant children (part 2)
Code
22D07808
Duration
03 July 2008 → 30 November 2008
Funding
Funding by decentralised authorities
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
  • 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).