Projects
A corpus-based analysis of grammatical cohesion in L2 German: Insights into the effect of learners' native language on academic writing proficiency in a foreign language. University of Antwerp
Languages of Evangelization: The Early Modern Circulation of Missionary Knowledge on Indigenous Languages in New Spain, Peru, And New France KU Leuven
Not long after the first European explorations of the Americas religious orders set out to evangelize the natives inhabiting these territories across the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Missionaries operating in the (for them) unknown and vast lands all faced similar challenges when establishing contact with local communities. The language barrier presented enormous and one of the most important obstacles to European religious men ...
Mapping metatext. On semantics of connectors, nature of conjunction and non-correspondence of metatexts of various languages on example of metatextual units marking opposition in Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, English and Dutch KU Leuven
The Rhetoric of Rights-Claiming: A Philosophical Assessment of the Nature, Possibilities, and Risks of the language of human rights. KU Leuven
Ever more grievances, aspirations, claims to goods, or demands for protection are formulated in the vocabulary of human rights. This has engendered important critiques. Both conservative and radical thinkers claim that serious moral or ethical concerns are being misframed as entitlements to formal rights. However, these debates on the effects of human rights language rarely stem from a systematic analysis of human right claims ...
Getting real about words and numbers. An enactive approach to language and mathematics. University of Antwerp
A Comparison of Active and Interactive Listening in Secondary School Foreign Language Classrooms in Belgium and Turkey KU Leuven
A Comparison of Active and Interactive Listening in Secondary School Foreign Language Classrooms in Belgium and Turkey
While central to language learning, listening comprehension is the least understood and least researched skill (Vandergrift, 2007). There are many reasons for this, among which is the fact that listening is the most internalized (making it difficult to observe) and ...
Pragmatic markers in native and non-native Englishes: A study into the use of and attitudes to pragmatic markers KU Leuven
The project is set to contribute to our understanding of the use of pragmatic markers (such as so, well, you know, like) by three different types of language users: native speakers of English, learners of English as a foreign language whose mother tongue is Dutch, and speakers who use English as a means of communication on a day-to-day basis. Its main research objective is to compare these three types of speakers of English in terms of ...
Pragmatic markers in native and non-native Englishes: A study into the use of and attitudes to pragmatic markers KU Leuven
The project is set to contribute to our understanding of the use of pragmatic markers (such as so, well, you know, like) by three different types of language users: native speakers of English, learners of English as a foreign language whose mother tongue is Dutch, and speakers who use English as a means of communication on a day-to-day basis. Its main research objective is to compare these three types of speakers of English in terms ...
Project Spanish Federal Research Fund "Multiliteracies for adult at-risk learners of additional languages" KU Leuven
This research is funding by the Spanish Federal Research Fund (PID2020-113460RB-I00; Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad. I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad; PI: M Carmen Fonseca Mora (Universidad de Huelva), 36.300,00€; consortium: Universidad de Huelva, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Córdoba, KU Leuven, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Universidad de Columbia (EEUU), Bratislava ...