Dealing with multilingualism in the Flemish education

Dealing with multilingualism in the Flemish educationIn the last number of the magazine SPARK keep Kris Van den Branden and Machteld Verhelst a hot plea to positive to go with the linguistic wealth in education, and more specifically with the thuistalen of pupils. 'In Flanders, the number of pupils at home that speaks a different language than the Dutch sharply, especially in the big cities. The number of thuistalen is very large, but also for English pupils is that they many different taalvariëteiten control.'

The authors describe in the article, "to a full language policy. Dealing with multilingualism in the Flemish education' inaugurated a number of initiatives which can be taken in the context of a full language policy. However, that does not mean that schools also up to continue to invest in a strong education in and of the Dutch, thus both authors.

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