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Dutch ++

• Bachelor of education: secondary school• Applied Research – Research projects of

students

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K.H.KEMPEN

Dutch ++

Vorselaar Vienna

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Dutch ++”“Examples and new models for learning and teaching pluricentric languages”

• Multilateral European language project (Lifelong Learning Programme)

Cooperation of: • University of Vienna, • Freie Uni Berlin, • Language Center of University of Tilburg,• KH Kempen University College• Third country partner: IOL (Institute for the training of

teachers) Surinam

• 3 years – 100 % score –full funding

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Teaching Dutch as foreign language (FL) or L2

• Dutch: official language in The Netherlands, Belgium and Surinam

• One standard language or three?– 10 years ago I would say 1– Now?

• Tendency for own standard

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Taalunie: diversity in unity

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Dutch colleagues will help

What’s the name? What’s the name?

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Dutch colleagues will help

een lolly – een lekstok

een biertje – een pintje

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Big difference between the written and spoken language

• Are you out of your mind? Are you nuts?

• Ben je gek? (NN)• Zedde zot? (BN)

Not one word is the same!

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Problems for DFL- DL2 (Dutch foreign language – Dutch second language)

• DL2: students learn in coursebooks the Dutch Dutch standard forms

• they hear in Belgium /Flanders Belgian - Dutch forms

• Language courses don’t prepare them for reality of varied language

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Problems for DFL

• They only learn the variety of Dutch their lecturer knows (most of the time Dutch Dutch)

• There is at least a necessity of awareness of the different standards and different varieties.

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Challenges

• How do we prepare learners of a language for real life language?

• At what stage of language learning do we prepare learners for real life language?

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The listening eye

• How difficult is it to understand the spoken language?

• How much repetition of language functions and language situations do we need in starter’s courses of a language?

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How about your situation?

• How much of language variation do you have with your language?

• What’s the opinion about dialects?• Do you only teach the standard

language or also varieties of the language (horizontal or vertical varieties)?

• How much of language variation do you teach in schools?

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How about teaching your language as foreign language?

• Only standard language?• Varieties?

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This was Vienna, next year Paramaribo!

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