ABSTRACT
Bilingual education at secondary level in the Netherlands in Dutch called TTO, for tweetalig onderwijs began as a small grass-roots initiative around 1990. Within 20 years there were about 120 secondary schools offering bilingual education (English/
Dutch, with the exception of a few schools near the German border that offer
German/Dutch). The introduction and implementation of bilingual education began
in schools with the highest academic level and the highest entrance requirements, but
it is slowly being established in other types of secondary schools as well. At the
moment, the largest growth in secondary bilingual education is occurring in the
lowest of the three streams of secondary education, in the form of additive
bilingualism through partial immersion.
