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Title of the Project
Nederlands voor anderstaligen + taalpreventie
Brief description
This project created instruments for learning Dutch as a foreign language
Country
Belgium
Year
2004
Target Language
Dutch

THE INITIATIVE PROMOTER’S PERSPECTIVE

Background

Target group: non native (Dutch) speaking teachers, wishing to teach their mother tongue or another discipline in the Flemish educational context (where Dutch is the working language and the language requirements are high). They either have a pedagogical degree from their home country or want to obtain a pedagogical degree in Flanders (in Dutch). The teachers were unemployed at the time of the project, and registered as such at the VDAB (employment office) - partner in the project.
Module 1 = intensive language course, in preparation to the pedagogical training (in Dutch).
Module 2 = Dutch language coaching, parallel to the pedagogical training (in Dutch).

Objectives

The final objective of the project aims at inserting the participants in the labor market, as teachers in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.
The target language level is C1 in Dutch.

Approach

1. written and oral screening: language level (B2 required), motivation, needs...
2. quality control through language tests and individual feedback
3. stimulating equal opportunities through job creation for foreign teachers in the official Dutch eduactional environment
4. win-win for the Flemisch educational system: intercultural awareness and deployment of native language teachers

Results

The first edition (2004) counted 16 participants: 14 of them still continued the pedagogical training after completion of the language modules, which corresponds to a success ratio of 90%.
Several other editions took place in the following years.

Why the European Language Label?

There are not a lot of awards in the area of language learning and teaching, the choice for this Label was obvious.
In the following years, Linguapois applied (and obtained) more labels, with e.g. Eurocatering Language Training.

Activities following the award of the European Language Label

Poster sessions, use of the logo & the reference as an instrument for quality assurance, posting small articles in the corporate newsletters...

Assessment of the Impact of the European Language Label

The ELL is not very well known by a broader audience, so the impact is rather limited. But the fact of having obtained a label is better than not having obtained a label at all.

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21 December 2014

Audio- video presentation of the NELLIP project

An audio- video presentation of the NELLIP project has been created and made available in the Information section of the NELLIP portal. To access the presentation please click here: http://nellip.pixel-online.org/IF_intro.php.