Policy on LESLLA learners in Flanders

Abstract

"As an advisor to the Flemish Minister for Education I am involved in all aspects of lifelong learning; therefore, second language acquisition in low-educated non-native speakers of Dutch is only one of the many issues I advise on. However, language acquisition in non-native speakers of Dutch holds a very important position within adult education as a whole. In the past six to seven years the interest in the target group of low-educated non-native speakers of Dutch and illiterates has rapidly increased"