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| Titel |
Proud to be tvmbo. Teachers’ and students’ opinions about good practice in bilingual junior secondary vocational education (tweetalig vmbo) |
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| Auteur(s) |
R. Tanner & R. de Graaff |
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| Aanvrager |
Anna van Rijncollege |
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| Instelling en jaar |
Utrecht. Centre for Teaching and Learning, Utrecht University, 2011 |
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| ISBN |
978-90-393-5566-4 |
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| Onderwijssector |
Voortgezet onderwijs |
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| Bestelwijze | Online bestellen |
Samenvatting
Teaching in bilingual junior secondary vocational education or bilingual
tvmbo is special. This research project aims to look at good practice in tvmbo
and is written for schools which have just started or which are considering
starting a tvmbo. After an initial literature survey, interviews, observations
and online surveys were used to fi nd out what teachers, bilingual coordinators
and students in tvmbo consider to be good practice. From our literature study we
see that bilingual education can be suitable for vmbo students, under certain
circumstances. We can predict that their academic performance in English will
probably be better than their peers in regular vmbo and that their academic
performance in Dutch will probably not be negatively affected. However, schools
need to pay close attention to both Dutch and English language development and
to the development of their teachers as language teachers. Our study showed that
there are different reasons why students choose tvmbo and that it is motivating
for both tvmbo students and their teachers. Moreover, there are many advantages
of CLIL (content and language integrated learning) for bilingual tvmbo. We
discovered that there are many classroom strategies which are relevant for tvmbo
students Particularly relevant are a cross-curricular approach, effective
collaboration between subject and language teachers and a relevant
internationalization programme. This report also provides recommendations for
school policy for tvmbo, for European and international orientation (EIO), for
teachers in the classroom, for in-service training and for further research. The
study shows that bilingual vmbo is very feasible, that it motivates students and
improves their self-image. It has also revealed some useful teaching and
learning strategies and described good practice for tvmbo, for EIO and for
in-service training.
