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About the author
About the author
Jasmijn Bloemert (1980) studied English Language and Literature from 1998 to 2003 at the University of Amsterdam where she graduated on a thesis in which she investigated the epigraphs in Eliot’s Middlemarch. In this period she received an Erasmus Scholarship to study English Language and Literature at the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona where she specialized in classical literature. After graduation she spent several years roaming the world working as an English teacher in Japan, as a flight attendant for KLM, and she set up and managed a hotel in South Africa. In 2008 she attended teacher training at the University of Groningen where she graduated cum laude in 2010. After obtaining her teaching degree Jasmijn taught English at an international boarding school in the UK and then became programme coordinator for the Master Teacher Education in English at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences during which time she also taught at various secondary schools in Groningen. In 2012 Jasmijn started working as a subject pedagogical expert (vakdidacticus) in English teaching for secondary education at the teacher training department of the University of Groningen and two years later she received a Dudoc Alfa scholarship which resulted in the current thesis. She has presented her work at national and international conferences and educational events (e.g. USA, UK, Germany) and published several chapters in this thesis in international journals (see below). The Comprehensive Approach to foreign language teaching and learning has been adopted by SLO en ThiemeMeulenhoff. Furthermore, Jasmijn is a member of the Ethics Committee at the teacher training department of the University of Groningen and a member of the Exam Committee of the Master Teacher Education at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. Currently, she still works as subject pedagogical expert at the University of Groningen and coordinator of the professional development programme of the teacher education department (EVN).
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