PURPOSE Vietnamese children's performance on language-based processing tasks of fast-mapping (FM) word-learning and dynamic assessment (DA) word- and rule-learning tasks were investigated. METHOD Twenty-one first- and second-generation Vietnamese preschool children participated in this study. All children were enrolled in 2 Head Start programs in a large city in the Midwest. All children had ...

Abstract This article provides a critical analysis of the language policy measures that were taken by Flemish government (Belgium) to improve quality teaching national (Dutch) in compulsory education Flanders and system Brussels. It builds on Van den Branden (2006a) , which documented implementation task-based (TBLT) primary, secondary adult period between 1995 2005. Focusing primary education,...

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account teachers about, design evaluate tasks, after being introduced to TBLT during an in-service programme. The authors then go into classrooms explore ways which continue as p...