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The Teacher’s Turn: Teachers’ Perceptions of Observed Patterns of Classroom Interaction
Insight in the way verbal teacher-student classroom interaction unfolds during the language lesson is of crucial importance for effective teaching. Although classroom observational research is indispensable, i...
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De taalbarrière bij oudere Turkse vrouwen nader onderzocht
Een groeiende groep migranten wordt oud in een omgeving waar de dominante taal (T2) verschilt van hun moedertaal (T1). Deze studie bekijkt in hoeverre er een taalbarrière bestaat bij het verkrijgen van informa...
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The Impact of Home Literacy and Family Factors on Screen Media Use Among Dutch Preteens
This study examined preteens’ screen media use and potential differences in media use by child and family demographics among 1464 Dutch preteens. The results demonstrated that watching TV is still a very popul...
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The Homunculus in the Multilingual Brain
Wordy, the homunculus in a well-known applied linguist’s head, reports on all the work to be done in the multilingual lexicon and on the changes in view on the lexicon over time. He reflects on the old days wh...
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Determinants of Contact, Proficiency, and Attitudes
The structural model presented here explains relations between large sets of variables in different groups. It turned out that on the whole a model that takes attitudes as the dependent variable and Contact, P...
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In the Presence of English: A Resume After Step one of an International Study
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Descriptive Findings on the Presence of English
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English in Europe
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Language Attrition
Although there probably has been language attrition as long as there has been language acquisition and language teaching, research on this phenomenon is mostly of a recent date. In the history of foreign langu...