Boris and Binti: cartoons for speaking toddlers (and their parents)

Boris and Binto: tekenfilmreeks for speaking kleutesKetnet, the jeugdzender of the Flemish public television, is now sending out a tekenfilmreeks specially for toddlers (and their parents) with another thuistaal than Dutch is written. Story and text are of the basis of NT2 teacher An Wuyts.

 

The main protagonists in this Flemish an animated are Boris and Binti. Boris lives in a social residential area. Binti has African roots and lives in an apartment. In the multicultural metropolitan area experience them adventures for toddlers are identifiable.

In this tekenfilmreeks language also plays a key role. The language is easy to understand: simple sentences, present tense and much repetition.

In the meantime on the episodes that Ketnet website to view are, the spoken word additional supported with subtitles. The stories and texts in this an animated are also in pdf download on the same site.

The stories and the simple Dutch are the basis of An Wuyts. An Wuyts teaches English to adult speakers. It is also the author of 'Dutch in structures: Like Socrates, grammar NT2 with exercises' (978-903346619-9, Acco) and co-author of 'TaalRecht', a communicative-functional NT2 series for adults who already what can in language (In).

Boris and Binti is currently each day on the screen (to 6u10 and 15h30). The series is a co-production of Studio Epwerk (Ellen Pollard, daughter of An Wuyts) and Ketnet.


The Digital leerplatformOp Taaldag of the VRT (5 november 2013) said delegated driver Sandra De Preter about Boris and Binti: 'We play with a program such as Boris and Binti to language learning for children of foreign origin and their parents. The VRT is a partner in the digital learning platform for finding 'Dutch learning'. We will have fun journals and other broadcasts at the disposal of that learning platform for finding, so that Estonian speakers who already know a little Dutch, also outside the class access to practice.'

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and Binti, i.e. also for the adult learners referred to. The starting point is that parents very happy together with their speaking toddlers Dutch practice. That Dutch learning with Boris and Binti can therefore just as good in the NT2 lesson of the parents. There are NT2 teachers with the parents to watch a bedtime story and the language of Boris and Binti study. Home can older and infant than again together to watch a bedtime story.


An interview with Humo says something doenIn An Wuyts still: 'We emphasize the stories that the toddlers can subsequently impersonation: bread to a bird, in the bushing ... That kind of small things. Thus we want to encourage the creativity of the children: creative are just for the tv is níét sit, but then something seize with what you have learned. Look at first, and then out of the house!'


More info: Http://www.ketnet.be/kijken/boris-en-binti

More info: Http://www.ketnet.be/programma/boris-en-binti/nederlands-leren-met-boris-en-binti

More info (pdf): Http://www.ketnet.be/sites/default/files/content/downloads/borisenbinti/borisenbinti-deel1.pdf

More info: Http://www.humo.be/tv-tips/276158/animatieserie-boris-en-binti

More info: WWW.epwerk.be

 


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