The dialect wrongly has a bad name. Is that bad? ‘It is even capital destruction'!
Is speaking dialect with your children to their disadvantage? The short answer: no. That dialect in education causes language disadvantages is 'a persistent prejudice' that was circulating before the 1980s, says ¬Leonie ¬Cornips, professor by special appointment of language culture in Limburg at Maastricht University. Also read this article in Trouw.
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For science does not happen only through the university, Marjolein van Asselt, outgoing professor of Risk Governance at Maastricht University, argued during her farewell lecture.
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Prime Minister Rutte's position in Europe is quite strong," observes EU expert Mathieu Segers, professor of European History at Maastricht University.
