Strengthening Multilingual Expertise in the Classroom (VINI)
Aim
To organize the education of all pupils who follow education within Floreer in an inclusive and adaptive way, teachers of Optimist investigate how they can respond to the strongly increasing influx and flow of internationally multilingual newcomers - both from a foreign and their own international school - into/to the Dutch regular primary education. In achieving this, Floreer strives to align the professionalization of education professionals with the regional reality.
Results
- A transferable method for providing appropriate language and arithmetic education to internationally multilingual newcomers in mainstream primary education;
- A Dutch Enrichment Programme (DEP) that acts as a bridge between international and regular education.
Duration
01 November 2024 - 30 August 2026
Approach
Based on an iterative design-oriented research approach, teachers of Optimist – in collaboration with multilingual experts and researchers – strengthen their teaching repertoire to ensure a soft landing for the internationally multilingual newcomers. In particular in the mainstream Dutch language and arithmetic lessons.
Impact
By exploring methods such as translanguaging in literacy and numeracy lessons, the research will provide insights into which strategies support the language and numeracy development of internationally multilingual pupils. In addition, it provides knowledge into the training and support teachers need to adapt to the increasing internationalization of education and the language diversity in their classrooms.