Cindy Kuiper
Cindy Kuiper is a senior researcher in the research group Multilingualism & Education at HU University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses among other things on genre pedagogy, (multi)language competencies in vocational education and Content and Language Integrated Learning.
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Cindy studied International Business and Languages (bachelor's) at Saxion University of Applied Sciences and Communication and Information Sciences (master's) at Radboud University. After her studies, she worked as a teacher, researcher, policy advisor and manager in higher professional education. Cindy obtained her PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven (2018) on a design-based study into the use of genre pedagogy as a form of language-sensitive content education, in the first year of higher professional education.
Expertise
- Language-sensitive content teaching / genre pedagogy
- (multi)Language competencies in vocational education
- Design-based research
Cindy is interested in how the language development of students in (multilingual) vocational contexts (mbo/hbo) can be promoted from an integrated, functional approach. She is currently active as a project leader in the Erasmus+ project One Stop CLIL Europe, and involved in various projects on language policy, language-sensitive content education and language-sensitive assessment in vocational education.
"Language is the key to vocational education. Let's help students get this key."
Cindy Kuiper
Researcher
