Gerard Westhoff

List of John Benjamins publications for which Gerard Westhoff plays a role.

Articles

Moonen, Machteld, Rick de Graaff and Gerard Westhoff 2006 Focused Tasks, Mental Actions and Second Language Learning. Cognitive and Connectionist Accounts of Task EffectivenessTask-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
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
Huibregtse, Ineke, Wilfried Admiraal, Kees de Bot, Loes Coleman en Gerard Westhoff 2000 Effecten en Didactiek van Tweetalig Voortgezet OnderwijsOnderzoek 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
Huibregtse, Ineke, Kees de Bot, Loes Coleman en Gerard Westhoff 1998 Een Evaluatie Van Tweetalig Voortgezet Onderwijs in NederlandToegepaste 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