language policy

Being one of them: Participating in an online community while researching cultural heritage

Article

Jos Swanenberg

02/08/2022

8 minutes to read

How can researchers use social media to empower speakers of local dialects? In this article, Jos Swanenberg explains how Facebook and Instagram helped him to collect data on language variation, while simultaneously connecting with members of the community and handing back the accumulated knowledge.

online teaching, online learning, language learning, covid-19

'Just Be Patient'? How Refugees and Migrants Learn German During Covid-19

Paper

Leonie Schulte

19/06/2020

23 minutes to read

As language courses for migrants and refugees move online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, how does Germany respond to experiences of waiting and uncertainty? They tell newcomers to be patient.

What is wrong with the Confucius Institute?

Paper

Linmin Zheng

09/10/2019

13 minutes to read

From the need to know about China to a crackdown on Confucius Institutes across the West. In this article, the relation between the Confucius institutes, China and power are analysed.

Dutch Language Representing Translator Dialect And Netherlands

'Dutch only at work’ : Discrimination or reasonable?

Paper

Meauraine van Gorp

04/01/2019

16 minutes to read

Language requirements at work: a form of discrimination or reasonable selection? The following article provides an analysis that helps to determine your opinion regarding this matter.

Academic guidelines, generalization and inequality

Column

Marissa Bakx

16/09/2018

5 minutes to read

Day in day out, we as scholars use academic guidelines like the APA referencing style. This form of standardization is broadly accepted by the academic world. But did you ever think about the system of standardization itself?

Revisiting the 2013 Dutch Integration Law

Article

Boudewijn Henskens

Jan Dijsselbloem

28/06/2018

11 minutes to read

The DIY philosophy the state promotes for those who want to integrate in Dutch society has resulted in a 50% decrease in those who pass the exams in the regular timeframe. What has the policy's role been in this?

Pricetag for a 'better' life: tangible and intangible borders that refugees have to deal with

Paper

Ashna Coster

Jan Dijsselbloem

Laura Smits

Meauraine van Gorp

25/06/2018

15 minutes to read

Refugees pay for their escape from their motherland, in different ways, and in the worst case with their life. Governments pay for border control and legislations in 'collaboration' with transit states. But who is paying the highest price?

Maastricht University sued for being too "international"

Article

Solange Coenegracht

10/06/2018

13 minutes to read

The debate about the increasing internationalization in Dutch higher education recently became quite controversial as universities across the Netherlands were being sued for teaching in English.