PhD project: Investigating Early English in Dutch primary schools

Vacancy nr.68907

Preferred starting date: 01-09-09

Goal: This PhD position investigates the acquisition of English in the Dutch primary classroom. More specifically, its goal is to determine the extent to which the quantity and quality of the input to which children are exposed as part of early English programmes (VVTO in Dutch) has a direct effect on their linguistic proficiency. It will involve a longitudinal study of the morphosyntactic and lexical development of several groups of children who systematically differ in terms of input quantity (no. of hours per week) and quality (linguistic proficiency of the teacher).

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Deadline: 01-05-2009; applications should be sent do Humanitiesjobs.gw@uu.nl and not to me! See UU website for more details.