Dutch Position Statement Children with Listening Difficulties: development - presentation at at 10th European Congress of Speech and Language Therapy, Cascais Portugal, 10 - 12 May, 2018

Culture has freed us to some extent from nature, first through language and religion, and almost simultaneously through technology. From the control of the fire and the first tools until now - smart technology - technological development has taken a long cultural path, with many challenges and possibilities. …

Many studies have suggested that personal practical knowledge is essential for professional development. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the importance of teacher educators’ personal practical knowledge of ‘language’ for student learning development. However, the need for teacher educators …

In het voorjaar van 2017 startten SKSG en obs De Feniks in Groningen het project Taalatelier, dat een vervolg kreeg in schooljaar 2017-2018. Pedagogisch medewerkers (verder: pm’ers) Rene Liet en Manon Jongsma van SKSG ontvingen op woensdag- en vrijdagmiddag een groep kinderen uit groep 4-5 om motiverende …

Op de BSO de Sterrensteen in Vinkhuizen (onderdeel van de SKSG) is vanaf maart 2017 gestart met het opzetten van talentateliers voor kinderen uit groep 3, 4 en 5. Doel van de talentateliers is om kinderen op een aansprekende en betekenisvolle manier hun talenten te laten ontdekken. Waar mogelijk sluiten …

In a longitudinal design, 51 low-achieving adolescents’ development in writing proficiency from Grades 7 to 9 was measured. There were 25 native-Dutch and 26 language-minority students. In addition, the roles of (1) linguistic knowledge, (2) metacognitive knowledge, and (3) linguistic fluency in predicting …

BACKGROUND: Our previously published CUDA-only application PaSWAS for Smith-Waterman (SW) sequence alignment of any type of sequence on NVIDIA-based GPUs is platform-specific and therefore adopted less than could be. The OpenCL language is supported more widely and allows use on a variety of hardware …

For delayed and long-term students, the education process is often a lonely journey. The main conclusion of this research is that learning should not be an individual process of the student connected to one lecturer, but rather a community where learning is a collective journey. The social interaction …

In this paper we describe the development of a training for crisis communication professionals, the ‘Discourse Analytical Glasses’(DAG). The DAG training was developed based on the results of three discursive studies on social media discussions about crisis situations. In the training, participants …

The purpose of the design-based research reported here is to show – as a proof of principle – how the idea of scaffolding can be used to support primary teachers in a professional development programme (PDP) to design and enact language-oriented science lessons. The PDP consisted of six sessions of 2.5 h …