Studying languages is an exciting choice, particularly in a city such as Brussels where probably more languages are spoken than anywhere else in Europe. Competence in languages is not just a luxury. It is a necessity in a society where international relationships are part of every day life. Language students access other cultures and thus broaden their horizons. They have the opportunity to see how people communicate and how the human mind ...
The research programme of the CTO includes fundamental and applied research into the relation between language, education and migration.
Research mainly focuses on language acquisition, language behaviour in multilingual settings, interaction in the language classroom, language policy, (second) language education and language testing. Special attention goes to the linguistic mechanisms that influence equity in education. This has led to ...
The main task of the "Instituut voor taalonderwijs" (institute for language teaching) is foreign language teaching (FLT), to a large extent language for special purposes (LSP). Much of the research is directly related to this task and the students are occasionally used as subjects in experiments. The main topics are: 1. Foreign language acquisition, especially of reading comprehension, with psycholinguistic research on word recognition and ...
The research group Language, Education & Society is a dynamic group dedicated to the study of language learning in all its facets. The research carried out within our research group aims to unravel the interaction between (1) the learner, (2) the learner’s social and educational situation and (3) language or content via language.
The research group has four main research areas:
The research group Language, Education & Society is a dynamic group dedicated to the study of language learning in all its facets. The research carried out within our research group aims to unravel the interaction between (1) the learner, (2) the learner’s social and educational situation and (3) language or content via language.
The research group has four main research areas:
De onderzoeksgroep Taal & Onderwijs is een dynamische groep die zich richt op de studie van taalleren in al haar facetten. Het onderzoek dat in onze groep gedaan wordt wil de interactie tussen (1) de taalleerder, (2) desociale context en onderwijssituatie van de taalleerder en (3) de taal of inhoud via taal ontrafelen.
Onze onderzoeksgroep heeft vier onderzoeksspeerpunten:
- Conception of anonomasiological learner's dictionary of business french (a production dictionary) based on a systematic description of word combinations. This work is inspired by the most recent developments in lexicography and lexicology (e.g. lexical functions, corpus-based lexicography,...). - Conception and compilation in a relational database of a context oriented arabic-dutch/dutch-arabic productive learner's dictionary and frequency ...
ACTO is the Academic Language Centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ACTO provides language support at the request of VUB faculties and services.
This research group examines congenital, developmental and neurological language/speech disorders, both from a top-down approach using neuroimaging and from a bottom-up approach studying speech and language in an interactional context. Neuroimaging measures are used for predicting language outcomes in dyslexia and aphasia and for investigating neuroplasticity during language learning. Advanced MRI methods are developed in collaboration with ...