Jeanne Kurvers

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jeanne Kurvers plays a role.

Articles

Dokter, Nanke, Rian Aarts, Jeanne Kurvers, Anje Ros and Sjaak Kroon 2017 Academic language in elementary school mathematics: Academicness of teacher input during whole class instructionDutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2, pp. 213–230 | Article
Students who are proficient academic language (AL) users, achieve better in school. To develop students’ AL register teachers’ AL input is necessary. The goal of this study was to investigate the extent of AL features in the language input first and second grade teachers give their students in… read more
Veldhuis, Dorina and Jeanne Kurvers 2012 Offline segmentation and online language processing units: The influence of literacyUnits of Language – Units of Writing, Joyce, Terry and David Roberts (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
Although metalinguistic (‘offline’) awareness of words as linguistic units has been related to literacy, it is still uncertain whether literacy also affects the units of language that people process unconsciously (‘online’). In this contribution, we first discuss the characteristics of offline and… read more
Words' are often regarded as the basic units of language. Previous studies into metalinguistic and metalexical development have shown, however, that people are only able to segment words from written language if words are salient linguistic units in writing in their mother-tongue. And even then… read more
The Republic of Suriname in South America and the Carribean island of Aruba are both former Dutch colonies. After its independence in 1975 Suriname opted for maintaining Dutch as an official language and a language of education and also in Aruba, which is nowadays an autonomous part of the Kingdom… read more
Academic or school language is a specific register of language that involves the use of language for cognitively complex, decontextualised communication. When children enter school they are expected to be able to participate in situations where this kind of language use is demanded. Some children… read more
Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun, Jeanne Kurvers en Sjaak Kroon 2006 Negen Talen En Drie Schriften: Schriftverwerving en schriftgebruik in EritreaToegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 75, pp. 89–102 | Article
In view of its sociolinguistic situation and its mother tongue language policy Eritrea qualifies as an excellent site for comparatively investigating the acquisition and use of literacy in nine different languages (Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar, Saho, Bidhaawyeet, Kunama, Nara, Bilen and Rashaida) using… read more
Children cannot mark well word boundaries in spoken language before they are about seven years of age, although some researchers (e.g., Karmiloff-Smith et al. 1996) claim a much earlier emergence. Different explanations have been put forward for the development of word marking skills: on the one… read more
Until recently, studies about adults' metalinguistic knowledge nearly always dealt with adult readers. Since explanations about the development of children's metalinguistic knowledge are not conclusive about the influence of either (language) development or experience with written language. Adult… read more
Aarts, Rian en Jeanne Kurvers 2001 Ouders, Taal en Interactie in Opstap OpnieuwOnderzoek ontmoet onderwijs 2, pp. 9–22 | Article
Home-based intervention programs should not only offer all those qualities that are required for every intervention program for youngsters, but also have to take care that they can be used by low-educated, sometimes illiterate parents. A fact that must also be taken into account is that… read more
The language learning strategies of adult second-language learners get more important as education concentrates more on individualisation and flexibility. In a multiple case study, it was examined which learning strategies were utilised by some lower educated, second-language learners who were… read more