Mbo'ers gebruiken thuis, op school en op hun stage vaak onbewust een combinatie van allerlei verschillende talen, taalvariëteiten en registers. Zo hebben ze al heel wat meertalige ervaring opgedaan en meertalige competenties ontwikkeld. Daar kun je als docent je onderwijs op afstemmen. Maar dan moet …

The current study investigated how individual differences among children affect the added value of social robots for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary to young children. Specifically, we investigated the moderating role of three individual child characteristics deemed relevant for language learning: …

Loneliness and social isolation are increasingly recognized as important challenges of our times. Inspired by research hinting at beneficial effects of interacting with nature on social connectedness and opportunities provided by ambient technology to simulate nature in a rich and engaging manner, this …

For the past decade I have, as an artist/researcher, investigated the uses of photographic pictures in East African country Uganda. The relation between photographic pictures and memory have been well researched and argued. But this is often done from a rather one sided Eurocentric perspective on photographic …

Posterpresentatie op Conferentie. Introduction: Classifiers are handshapes (sometimes combined with a specific orientation) that, when combined with the other parameters of movement and location form a ‘verb of motion or location’. There is a limited body of research available on the acquisition of …

Depicting news graphically is considered an apt way to deal with challenges of modern journalism: to disclose big data, and present news attractively, visually, and fast to grasp. This study delves into reported obstacles and challenges for the production of news visualizations. It focuses on the question: …

Depicting news graphically is considered an apt way to deal with two challenges of modern journalism: to disclose big data, and present the news attractively, visually, and fast to grasp. Newsrooms try their hand at it and are figuring out how to organize production of information visualizations effectively. …

This report explores the yachting sector of SXM, which to this day does not receive enough government attention and is not given the recognition that it deserves as a lucrative sector of the economy (Johnson, 2010). Therefore, the decision to research this topic came as a result of the Tourism Bureau's …

The author compiled what became public of Israels air force activities, raising the question of its effectiveness. Of course, Hezbollah was no match for air superiority, but fired rockets at Israel from an extensive network of tunnels and subterranean bunkers and shelters. In this conflict the added …