Multilingualism and Education

Teachers are presented with the challenge of educating heterogeneous, multilingual students with high quality language and subject-specific education. Research group Multilingualism and Education studies the challenges of professionals in their teaching practice, their use of languages, and the different ways in which they foster inclusive education.

Multilingual teaching assistants as brokers in newcomer education

Project

Three pressing societal issues are addressed: the increased number of newcomer children, the alarming teacher shortage and insecurities regarding newcomers and multilingualism among current teachers.

English in primary education

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This research makes an inventory of factors that may influence the English learning outcomes of primary school pupils

Implementation and monitoring of urban network newcomers

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More research projects

Inclusive STEM teaching from a language perspective Teacher learning in a professional development program
- Jantien Smit, Lucía Beatriz Chisari, Maria Kouns, Anne Bergliot Oyehaug, Elwin Savelsbergh, Maaike Hajer
- Research group: Multilingualism and Education
- Article
- 2023
The acquisition of strategies to express plurality in hearing second language learners of sign language of the Netherlands
- Eveline Boers-Visker
- Research group: Multilingualism and Education
- Article
- 2023
Constructive alignment in foreign language curricula An exploration of teaching and assessment practices in Dutch secondary education
- Charline Rouffet, Catherine van Beuningen, Rick de Graaff
- Research group: Multilingualism and Education
- Article
- 2022

More publications

Working in multilingual contexts is a key issue in teachers’ education and professional development. We aim to prepare teachers to choose pedagogically and didactically-informed ways of working, which fit their students’ needs, learning goals, and school environment.

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The research group works together with various regional, national, and international parties to strengthen a communicative, intercultural and content-oriented approach to foreign language education. Among others teachers who received their education at the Hogeschool Utrecht and the Universiteit Utrecht, and different teaching schools in the region. As well as internationally with the University of Malmö, Sweden, and Innland University for Applied Sciences, Norway.