This study’s main aim is to test whether children’s learning behaviour explains why they do not benefit from a literate environment.

What is the effect of practicing with electronic books on reading skills for grade 1 students?

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The Academic Language Centre offers numerous courses in Academic Skills.

This study tests whether behavioural problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.

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Het Academisch Talencentrum biedt verschillende mogelijkheden aan om Academische vaardigheden te leren.

Research has shown that the impact of feedback can be very powerful on second language acquisition. However, how to provide adaptive feedback on speaking skills in foreign languages and how to provide differentiated support in secondary schools in regular secondary schools classes of often 25-30 students?…

Apart from academic skills, our teaching also focuses on transferable skills. Both business and society demand critical thinking, the ability to solve problems and self-reflection; however, they also ask for creativity, the ability to collaborate, and communicative skills, such as presenting, persuading…

The global population speaks approximately 7,000 different languages and approximately half of the world’s population is bilingual. The unique orthographic characteristics of different languages can help us to gain insight into the seemingly simple process of transforming written to spoken words (i.e.,…

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Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe

The English section at the Academic Language Centre offers numerous courses in Academic Skills. These courses are intended to train participants in the use of English writing and presenting skills in an academic context. The courses are aimed at BA students and MA students. In addition, we also offer…

A dental anthropological approach to foodways, health and disease, and crafting in the pre-Columbian Caribbean.

Below are resources which provide a short primer on the subject of active learning.

Most courses do not have any admission requirements. À la carte courses, for instance, can be attended regardless of your former education. However, pre-university education level knowledge is desirable.

Using object assemblages to reconstruct activities, modes of deposition and abandonment at the Late Bronze Age dunnu of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.

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How can we help children and adults to acquire better reading comprehension? Paul van den Broek and his colleagues at the Brain and Education Lab are searching for an answer to this question by investigating reading and the related brain activity.

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How can the legal and socio-legal research skills of Indonesian jurists be increased in order to promote legal certainty and to strengthen the capacity of the judicial training in the country?

University lecturers who are in the process of obtaining the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) and who teach programmes in English will also need the Basic Qualification in English Language Skills certificate, which guarantees a basic standard of English.

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Platform for Postcolonial Readings brings together researchers in Belgium and the Netherlands committed to issues of postcoloniality and globalization. We meet twice a year in order to exchange insights and experiences, deepen our academic practice, and relate to the national and international academic…

These four volumes offer students and researchers a rich collection of published works on the history of slavery works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field.

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Read about the current reseach projects of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media.

The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwined in ways we did not comprehend before” argues Maikel Kuijpers, archaeologist and the producer of the documentary. “This will have consequences for the…

The better teaching is for pupils and students, the more solid the basis will be that we give them for their future careers. This type of teaching requires strong instructors and insight into the best ways in which pupils can be supported, and research at Leiden University is making a contribution in…

The two-year master's in Korean Studies, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master's in Asian Studies, offers a large and varied selection of subjects and the freedom to choose the areas upon which you will focus.