Educational linguistics lays at the interface of contributions from linguistics (in our case focused on L1) and education. It aims at teaching students in compulsory schooling how to engage in fruitful reflection when facing both language in use (especially in the written mode) and language as a system, …

Dit ontwerponderzoek richt zich op de executieve functies van leerlingen met een didactische hulpvraag in een RT-setting. Er zijn veel methodieken op de markt waarin het verbeteren van de executieve functies centraal staat. Om de juiste interventie te kunnen plegen, is het noodzakelijk om in beeld te …

Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on relating measures of syntactic complexity to text quality. Apart from the fact that the existing research on this topic appears inconclusive, most of it …

L1 grammar teaching worldwide often takes the form of traditional grammar teaching with decontextualized parsing exercises and rules of thumb. Some researchers have proposed enriching such forms of grammar teaching by relating traditional grammatical concepts to underlying metaconcepts from linguistic …

This research took place in the bilingual first-year class b1ct at Sintermeertencollege in Heerlen. Despite homogeneity with regards to age and education, the levels of English between classmates differs greatly. The goal of this study was, therefore, to ensure that the gifted learners in this group …

Wiskundig vaardige leerlingen uit leerjaar 3 op Het College verwerken de lesstof snel en hebben het huiswerk vaak al voor het einde van de les af. Hoe ervaren zij creatieve toepassingen van wiskunde wanneer middels een individueel verrijkingsproject een onderwerp gekoppeld wordt aan eerder verworven …

Wat zijn de werkzame beeldend therapeutische elementen van de module ‘Zicht op mezelf’ bij volwassenen van de dagbehandeling te Zuyderland Sittard?

In L1 grammar teaching, teachers often struggle with the students’ conceptual understanding of the subject matter. Frequently, students do not acquire an in-depth understanding of grammar, and they seem generally incapable of reasoning about grammatical problems. Some scholars have argued that an in-depth …

Orthography is considered to be a major problem in Dutch education, since many pupils don’t seem to be able to master orthographic rules, even after years of education. In educational literature it is argued that the problems related to spelling are caused by approaches that focus more on rules of thumb …