Projects
Newcomers’ literacy trajectories: mapping and monitoring literacy learning practices, processes and strategies in formal, non-formal and informal spheres. KU Leuven
This doctoral research forms the basis of a broader research project (C2 - Unlocking newcomers’ literacy development: learning for life in formal, non-formal and informal spheres) that focuses on migrant newcomers’ language and literacy development in their new host environment. It explores how they expand their literacy competencies in different situated socialization processes and ecologies, and tries to gain insight into how newcomers’ ...
Unlocking newcomers’ literacy development: learning for life in formal, non-formal and informal spheres KU Leuven
Society, culture and the brain: the sociocultural and biosocial foundation of formal learning Ghent University
In the anthropological-eicational perspective of ethnomathematics we investigate how native procedures of learning and preschool concepts impact on formal thinking (mainly basic mathematics). Linked with the culture-sensitive learning theories (Vygitsky to M. Cole) curricula and learning procedures are elaborated yielding success in the schooling of formal thinking (math). The visit of pror. Sal Restivo (Rennselaer pol., NY) as eminent ...
Structured Machine Learning for Mapping Natural Language to Spatial Ontologies KU Leuven
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Representation Learning for Sign Language Translation Using Linguistic and Knowledge-based Constraints KU Leuven
This PhD project is an integral part of the Horizon 2020 research project SignON, which unites 17 European partners in a research project that aims to facilitate the exchange of information among deaf and hard of hearing, and hearing individuals across Europe by developing automatic sign language translation tools. Recent machine learning methods based on neural transformer architectures have greatly improved the state-of-the art in natural ...
Visualisation tools and analytics to monitor online language learning & teaching Hasselt University
Development and integration of Speech technology into Courseware for language learning (DISCO). University of Antwerp
Theory, algorithms and tools for generic solutions to knowledge-intensive business problems from formal specifications KU Leuven
The impact of instruction and out-of-school exposure to foreign language input on learners’ language proficiency in two languages KU Leuven
This cross-sectional study investigated the impact of formal instruction and informal language language learning on learners’ language proficiency in two foreign languages: French (first foreign language) and English (second foreign language). We collected data from three subgroups: language learners in grade 8, grade 10 and the first year at university. Despite fewer years of English instruction, participants’ scores on a vocabulary and ...