Ludovic Beheydt

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ludovic Beheydt plays a role.

The multilingual society is a fact, both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. Minority languages like Arab, Turkish or Hindi have a strong position, even though they are not officially supported. English and the major European languages, on the other hand, have a protected status in education. The… read more
Recently learning psychologists have tried to prove that learning vocabulary in paired lists is more efficient than learning vocabulary in contexts. However, closer inspection of their experimental designs reveals undeniably that the evidence presented is not very reliable. The experiments are… read more
Recent developments in the area of testing have led to fundamental theoretical discussions of the nature of language proficiency and the ways in which it can be measured. The conflict supported by statistical theory between advocates of the unitary competence hypothesis and upholders of the… read more
Beheydt, Ludovic 1985 Toetsconstructie bij het "Certificaat Nederlands"Nederlands als tweede taal, pp. 129–147 | Article
The tests of the "Certificaat Nederlands" ("Dutch Certificate") are proficiency tests. They require the examinee to perform functional language-use tasks in situations that approximate as closely as possible the conditions under which these tasks are carried out in real life. These tests are… read more
Beheydt, Ludovic 1984 The deficit hypothesis and the social stratification of mother talkSociolinguistics in the Low Countries, Deprez, Kas (ed.), pp. 69–84 | Article