Projects
Seriousness and Science Fiction (SF&A): How concerns with seriousness proliferate through, and impact on, the reading, writing and discussion of the genre Ghent University
Since its nascency in the American pulp magazines of the 1920s, science fiction (SF) has had a particular relationship with the concept of seriousness. Characterised as juvenile in both its content and readership, SF has had to argue for its place in both literary and academic consideration. Debates about the strategies that could elevate the genre into serious consideration, or doom it to sneers, have been common since its birth, in both ...
The role of a non-mandatory low-stakes summative evaluation system in the improvement of reading instruction KU Leuven
While reading comprehension is more vital than ever for participation in education and society (OECD, 2016; Binkley et al., 2010), international tests such as PIRLS 2016 have shown a significant decline in the reading skills of young Flemish students (Mullis et al., 2017). In response, experts and educational institutions made an important recommendation: deliberately use of assessment instruments to monitor reading comprehension throughout ...
Effective Reading Education Excels Everyone Ghent University
With this project - ELODIE stands for Effectief LeesOnderwijs Doet Iedereen Excelleren [Effective Reading Education Excels Everyone] - we are specifically focusing on high-quality preparatory reading education in Flanders. We want to strengthen preschool teachers and care teams so that they are able to offer all children optimal learning and reading opportunities, with a specific focus on children who do not yet have a sufficient proficiency ...
Improving (typo)graphic navigation in indexes linked to contemporary non-linear magazines with large-scale documentation. Search reading texts, images, grid systems and their relations by university students in the era of digitization. Hasselt University
Increase reading pleasure and skills in VET HOWEST
The Authoring Side Revisited: Tracking Writing and Reading Processes in Technical Communication KU Leuven
Interactive reading of picture books to stimulate mathematical development in young children KU Leuven
This doctoral project focuses on the use of picture books to stimulate mathematical development in young children (3-6 year). Particular attention will be paid to the interaction between the teacher and the child during the reading of picture books. The doctoral project will consist of a series of empirical studies in ecologically valid settings. Each of these studies will focus on the interaction between the (future) teacher and the child ...
Protective Factors for Chinese Children with Dyslexia: A Longitudinal Study of Cognitive Profiles in relation to Reading Development KU Leuven
Individuals with developmental dyslexia display persistent reading and spelling difficulties regardless of extraneous circumstances. Despite the cognitive risks, some of them manage to achieve positive literacy outcomes after proper intervention and they are known as compensated readers. It has been demonstrated that their reading compensation could be realized via multiple protective factors, in which morphological skill is highlighted ...
Language access and content enrichment of Brepols' full-text databases: an AI and NLP-based transformation into a dynamic research, reading and learning environment KU Leuven
Based on the most recent developments in computational linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP), this Baekeland mandate strives for a multi-layered connection, deepening and enrichment of Brepols' Latin and Greek text corpus, both from a linguistic and content-based perspective, each time on word, sentence and text level. This transformed and enriched corpus will form the backbone of a dynamic research, ...