Publicaties

The purpose of the present cross-sectional study was to determine the objective vocal quality and the vocal characteristics (vocal risk factors, vocal and corporal complaints) in 197 female students in speech-language pathology during the 4 years of study. The objective vocal quality was measured by means of the Dysphonia Severity Index (DSI). Perceptual voice assessment, the Voice Handicap Index (VHI), questionnaires addressing vocal risks, and ...

Background: Since the late 1960s, research has demonstrated repeatedly that students in lower tracks achieve less as they develop an antischool culture to overcome the status deprivation resulting from being in a lower track. In quantitative large-scale research, this antischool culture is usually assessed using poor academic attitudes or study disengagement because antischool norms disengage students from the learning process. The extent to ...

This study analyzes the search behavior of Dutch-speaking nursing students with a non-native knowledge of English who searched for information in MEDLINE/PubMed about a specific theme in nursing. We examine whether and to what extent their search efficiency is affected by their language skills. Our task-oriented approach focuses on three stages of the information retrieval process: need articulation, query formulation and relevance judgment. The ...

A growing body of empirical studies indicates the educational benefits of bilingualism. Despite this tendency, bilingual minority students are being pressured by school authorities to shed their mother tongues. We conducted qualitative interviews with Turkish-bilingual and native-monolingual students in Flemish (Belgium) secondary schools to investigate how students evaluate their languages, how Dutch monolingualism is imposed, and how students ...

The UrgentiAS project (abbreviation of Urgentielexicon ArtsenStage, lexical database for medical students in clinical placements) was set up to meet the needs of Dutch-speaking Belgian medical students attending classes of medical Spanish/French/English to prepare for their clinical placements in obstetrics and gynaecology, pediatrics and internal medicine in hospitals abroad. The project provides students with an easy-to-use multilingual ...

In the Flemish linguistic landscape, a remarkable shift has come about over the past few decades, from a typically diglossic to a diaglossic constellation. Diaglossia is characterized by intermediate forms between standard and dialect (Auer 2011), in Flanders typically lumped together under the generic term tussentaal ('intermediate language'). In spite of the increasing use of tussentaal in a wide range of situations and the assumed ...

Being involved in bullying episodes can provide a threat for healthy youth development. Studies find that being victimized results in a multitude of psychomatic problems, such as depression (Slee, 1995). Being a bully can result in some serious health-related consequences as well. Bullies are shown to be as vulnerable to feelings of depression as victims (Slee, 1995). Moreover, bullies have a poorer psychosocial functioning than others (Haynie ...

The objective of this study was to analyze students' knowledge about biotechnology and genetics in three different age groups, to map their progress, and to evaluate the related Flemish biology curriculum. Biotechnology and genetic engineering are rapidly evolving domains in science and currently have a major impact on our daily lives. Therefore science education is expected to promote scientific literacy in students to develop active ...

School belongingness has proven its positive effect on a wide range of outcomes that lead to school success. However, the factors that influence school belongingness received little research attention. Hence, the goal of this study is to explore the impact of ethnic victimization on ethnic minority studentsU+2019 school belongingness. Hereto, we examine the relative impact of ethnic and non-ethnic victimization, since ethnic minority students ...