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Understanding Foreign Language Education and Bilingual Education in Belgium: A (Surreal) Piece of Cake
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Mettewie, Laurence; Van Mensel, Luk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The aim of the present article is to provide an overview of the current state of affairs regarding foreign language education and bilingual education in the different parts of Belgium. In a brief historical contextualisation, we explain how language education in Belgium has been shaped by the country's political and economic history, which has led…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Foreign Countries
Embracing Multilingualism, Experiencing Old Tensions. Promoting and Problematising Language at a Self-Declared Multilingual School
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Goossens, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
While much research has focused on how Western schools contain or silence the increasing multilingualism of their pupils, this paper investigates how a Dutch-medium school in Brussels has decided to take a different approach by branding itself as multilingual. Based on sociolinguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it will show that teachers invested in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Institutional Characteristics, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
MulTINCo: Multilingual Traditional Immersion and Native Corpus. Better-Documented Multiliteracy Practices for More Refined SLA Studies
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Meunier, Fanny; Hendrikx, Isa; Bulon, Amélie; Van Goethem, Kristel; Naets, Hubert – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Whilst the links between learner corpus research (LCR) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have long been debated, McEnery et al. (2019. "Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 39: 74-92. doi:10.1017/S0267190519000096) claim that learner corpus…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Content and Language Integrated Learning