Gerard Westhoff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gerard Westhoff plays a role.
2006 Focused Tasks, Mental Actions and Second Language Learning. Cognitive and Connectionist Accounts of Task Effectiveness Task-Based Language Teaching, Van den Branden, Kris and Machteld Verhelst (eds.), pp. 35–53 | Article
This paper presents a theoretical framework to estimate the effectiveness of second language tasks in which the focus is on the acquisition of new linguistic items, such as vocabulary or grammar, the so-called focused tasks (R. Ellis, 2003). What accounts for the learning impact offocused tasks?… read more
2000 Kritische Materiaalanalyse Door Docenten Moderne Vreemde Talen: Functie, inhoud en vorm van een model voor de analyse, beoordeling en revisie van leertaken moderne vreemde talen Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 63, pp. 41–48 | Article
First, this article focuses on a model for the analysis, evaluation and revision of foreign language learning tasks that has recendy been developed. A description is given of the function, form and content of the model and examples are provided. Second, the article explains how the usability of… read more
2000 Effecten en Didactiek van Tweetalig Voortgezet Onderwijs Onderzoek ontmoet onderwijs, pp. 9–20 | Article
This paper presents the results of a recently completed longitudinal evaluation study of Dutch-English bilingual programmes in Dutch pre-university education. During several years the outcomes of these programmes were measured in order to find out whether pupils in bilingual education gain higher… read more
1998 Een Evaluatie Van Tweetalig Voortgezet Onderwijs in Nederland Toegepaste taalwetenschap in discussie, pp. 219–227 | Article
Since 1991, an increasing number of Dutch secondary schools have been offering a bilingual programme (Dutch-English) in the first four years of pre-university education. In 1995 a longitudinal evaluation study of this type of education was started. In this paper the first results of a part of this… read more
1998 Rapportage Presentaties in Thema: 'Taalonderwijsmethoden' Toegepaste taalwetenschap in discussie, pp. 71–73 | Article
1997 The Task Force of the Dutch National Action Programme as an Instrument for Developing and Implementing Foreign-Language Policy Perspectives on Foreign Language Policy: Studies in honor of Theo van Els, Bongaerts, Theo and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 21–34 | Article