Projects
Subtitles for access to education: Exploring the impact of intralingual and interlingual subtitling of L2 English university lectures on cognitive load and comprehension. University of Antwerp
Dimensions of Early English do-support (DEEDS). University of Antwerp
ExpoVoc: Exposure to English and vocabulary learning: the unique case of young English-as-a-foreign-language learners in Flanders KU Leuven
How extension works: Determinants of the extension of grammatical and lexical items in English and Dutch. KU Leuven
Extension is the process whereby a linguistic item spreads to new lexical or grammatical environments. This research plan lays out a model of extension, explaining why an item can extend to a given environment at a given time. It formulates three interrelated hypotheses on the starting point, course and end point of extension. The hypotheses are tested on four corpus−based case studies covering different domains of grammar. The focus is on ...
'It's like y'know my mother tongue'. The impact of L1 and individual variation on the use of pragmatic markers by learners of English in peer-to-peer interaction KU Leuven
Is 'leuk' sufficiently cool? The social meaning of English loanwords: an acquisitional perspective. KU Leuven
Bringing the Bard back home? The English translation of foreign Shakespeare criticism in the long 19th century KU Leuven
The use of English as a lingua franca in multi-phased institutional procedures in Belgium. University of Antwerp
A longitudinal investigation of young learners' L2 English speaking skills: studying groups and individuals. Ghent University
Usage-based theories have stressed the importance of input for language learning both in and outside the classroom. When large amounts of input are available, learning gains can be rapid and large. However, the actual learning processes driving L2 development remain to be addressed. Throughout this project, I will look into L2 English speaking development of young, adolescent learners both at the group level and the individual level. An ...