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Perspectives on Foreign Language Policy : Studies in Honor of Theo van Els.
This volume, containing fourteen invited papers on foreign-language policy, starts off with a brief history of foreign-language teaching policy in the Netherlands. This historical outline is followed by four contributions of authors who once developed the Dutch National Action Programme (NAP) on For...
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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- PERSPECTIVES ONFOREIGN-LANGUAGEPOLICY; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Foreign-Language Teaching Policy in the Netherlands 1800-1970: A Historical Outline; Introduction; 1. 1796-1857: FLT and the Beginnings of a National Educational System; 1.1 The national school; 1.2 The Education Act of 1806 and its implications for FLT; 1.3 The earliest form of foreign-language teacher training; 1.4 FLT and the Latin schools; 1.5 FLT in Higher Education; 2. 1857-1876: The Education Acts of 1857, 1863 and 1876; 2.1 FLT in Extended Primary Education.
- 2.2 FLT in the Higher Burgher Schools2.3 FLT in the Grammar Schools; 2.4 FLT at the University of Groningen; 2.5 FLT and teacher training; 3. 1876-1920: From Experiments to Consolidation; 3.1 Government policy and FLT content; 3.1.1 The Higher Burgher Schools (HBS; 3.1.2 The Grammar Schools; 3.1.3 Extended Primary Education; 3.2 Foreign-language teacher training; 4. 1920-1968: From Consolidation to Innovation; 4.1 Consolidation in Secondary Education; 4.2 Innovation: the post-war years and beyond; 4.2.1 Higher Education; 4.2.2 Secondary Education; 5. Conclusion; References.
- The Task Force of the Dutch National Action Programme as an Instrument for Developing and Implementing Foreign-Language PolicyA Growing Need for Foreign-Language Competence; Supply and Demand Analysed; Directions for a Future Policy; The Establishment of the Task Force; Central Issues of the Action Programme; Concrete Actions to Implement the Recommendations; The Political Testament of the Task Force; Evaluation of the Task Force as an Instrument for Innovation; References; NAP as a Basis for a Coherent FLT Policy; The Difficulty of Spanish for Dutch Learners; Introduction.
- Spanish in Dutch EducationEasy and Difficult Languages?; Mother Tongue and Foreign Language; Differences in Learning Outcomes Between Languages; School marks as a measure of learning outcom; Learning outcomes and levels of language proficiency; Perceived Difficulty; The importance of learner characteristics in research into the difficulty of languages; The difficulty of Spanish for Dutch learners; References; Changing Targets
- Changing Tests; Introduction; Recommendations of the NAP and Points of Departure in Testing; New Programmes and Tests; Reading skill; Listening skills; Speaking skills.
- Writing skillsPriorities; Conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix A; Appendix B; Reading skills; Listening skills; Speaking skills; Writing skills; Horizon Taaland Language Planning in the United States; Introduction; Planning Oriented to Adult Use; Centralization of Planning and Management; The Choice of Languages; Architecture; Conclusion; References; Developing a Language-Competent American Society: Implications of the English-Only Movement; Introduction; Normative Bilingualism as Policy and Practice Internationally; Pervasive Monolingualism as Policy and Practice Domestically.