A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomesOpen architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learning world languages that integrates all the best practices in world language education to enhance learning efficiency and effectiveness. As editors and pioneers of this method, Corin, Leaver, and Campbell define OACD for world language instructors and sec...

Elke dag horen, spreken en lezen we verschillende talen en taalvariëteiten. Die meertalige realiteit weerspiegelt zich in onze scholen. Hoe leren we onze leerlingen met die taaldiversiteit omgaan en hoe kunnen we deze positief aanwenden op de klasvloer? Talensensibilisering biedt kansen. Via een internationale praktijkgerichte literatuurstudie en een bevraging van internationale en Vlaamse experts werd onderzocht wat het concept talensensibilisering inhoudt en wat de effecten zijn op leerl...

The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.

This book highlights the need to develop new educational perspectives in which multilingualism is valorised and strategically used in settings and contexts of instruction and learning. Situated in the current educational debate about multilingualism and ethno-linguistic minorities, chapter authors examine the polarised response to heightened linguistic diversity and how the debate is very much premised on binary views of monolingualism and multi- or bilingualism. Contributors argue that th...