Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus …

Course materials play a vital role in the foreign language classroom. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, to analyzing the activities that foster oral interactional ability in EFL course materials. For the purpose of this study, a coding scheme was designed that focuses specifically on …

Leerlingen oefenen met de sociale rollen en praktijken die essentieel zijn voor hun (toekomstig) beroep door een spreektaak uit te voeren die past bij het beroepsprofiel waarvoor zij worden voorbereid of opgeleid in het (v)mbo.

Little is known about the effects of different instructional approaches on learner affect in oral interaction in the foreign language classroom. In a randomized experiment with Dutch pre-vocational learners (N = 147), we evaluated the effects of 3 newly developed instructional programs for English as …

De meeste lesboeken laten leerlingen oefenen door nieuw geleerde taalelementen te laten toepassen in geleide of gesloten spreekopdrachten. De vraag is of leerlingen daarmee voldoende leren om zich staande te kunnen houden in spontane, onvoorspelbare spreeksituaties. In haar promotieonderzoek onderzocht …