De sprong

Na het doorwerken van de methode heeft iemand B1-niveau en kan hij of zij zich zelfstandig redden in het Nederlands. Vervolgmogelijkheden zijn Vooruit! of De finale, ter voorbereiding op een van de twee staatsexamens.

De sprong is a Dutch course for medium and highly educated non-Dutch speakers. The method can be used as a teaching method for groups and also as a self-study method.

Maud Beersmans is an NT2 teacher at Babel.

After completing a degree in Sociolinguistics, Maud pursued a post-graduate degree in Educational Work and soon thereafter became a primary school teacher. Five years later, she made the switch to NT2 education for highly educated non-native speakers. She has taught all levels of group courses and customised training courses at Utrecht University’s James Boswell Institute. Maud has worked for Babel since it assumed the language education activities of the James Boswell Institute in 2012.

In addition to teaching classes, she supervises student trainees, serves as an assessor for the General Knowledge and Skills (AKV) medical assessment test, conducts intake interviews and holds workshops on vocabulary instruction, motivational teaching and peer feedback.

Together with her colleague Wim Tersteeg, who is a teacher at Babel at Utrecht University, Maud developed the popular NT2 op maat series, which is designed for students who are preparing for the Staatsexamen NT2.