Strategies of multilingualism in education for minority children

Abstract

The research reported here was funded by the Municipality of Ghent. The PIs were Piet Van Avermaet, Stef Slembrouck, Koen Van Gorp and Machteld Verhelst. We are especially grateful to Luc Heyerick, the then Director of the Local Education Department. He initiated the conversations and remained the driving force behind the Home Language in Education project during its implementation. We are also grateful to Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen for her detailed comments on an earlier version of this chapter. When working on this project Van Gorp was affiliated to the Centre for Language and Education, KU Leuven-University of Leuven.