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The added value of multilingualism in education
Our councilor Simion Blom (spokesperson for primary education) wants the municipality to develop a strategy to use the multilingualism of children in primary and secondary education. The use of the home language at school helps in the fight against inequality of opportunity and improves the well-being of multilingual children in Amsterdam. Simion Blom, together with our councilor Tirza de Fockert (spokesperson for secondary education) and councilor Numan Yilmaz of DENK, wrote an initiative proposal called 'Multilingualism in education'.
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What is multilingualism?
The Netherlands is becoming more multilingual by the day. Despite this, not much is known about multilingualism. In order to deal with this properly, it is important that everyone understands what multilingualism is, that there is knowledge about the statistics in the Netherlands on multilingualism and that we listen to the scientists to know what is already known. In this collection we give answer to the question 'what is multilingualism?'.
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Multilingualism and Education
Managing multilingualism in education can be crucial for multilingual children's school success, as well as for their social and emotional development. In this collection we try to collect as much knowledge in this area as possible and to collect the answers that already exist.
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Newcomer education
Children who come to the Netherlands carrying other languages are entitled to a good education. This remains a challenge that teachers face and something that still requires a lot of attention and effort. We therefore collect information in this collection that can be relevant for teachers, policymakers and researchers in this field.
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Multilingualism at home
There are many children in the Netherlands whose parents speak a different language at home. But what about the advice that parents receive from the teacher/the school of their child(ren) to mainly speak Dutch at home, is that correct? What do linguists say about this? In this collection we give answers to those two questions.
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Multilingualism in research
Multilingualism is a topic that is increasingly attracting the curiosity of researchers and has therefore been more researched in recent years. In this collection we compile a collection of the most prominent studies in this field.
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Kletsheads: The podcast about bilingual children for parents, teachers and speech language therapists
Kletsheads* is a podcast about bilingual children for parents, teachers and speech language therapists. What can you expect if you’re raising your children bilingually? What’s important? What will help your children’s language development and what won’t? In each episode, Dr. Sharon Unsworth, linguist and mother of two children (both bilingual, of course), discusses the science behind the language development of bilingual children with another expert. Along the way, there are practical tips, we hear from children about what it’s like growing up with two or more languages, and we talk to parents and professionals about their experiences with bilingual children.
Here, you can listen to all poscasts.
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Multilingualism in the European Institutions
Why is multilingualism so important in the European Union, and how do the interpretation services of the EU institutions ensure that all languages are truly equal in the day-to-day organization of work?
