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The main task of the "Instituut voor taalonderwijs" (institute for language teaching) is foreign language teaching (FLT), to a large extent language for special purposes (LSP). Much of the research is directly related to this task and the students are occasionally used as subjects in experiments. The main topics are: 1. Foreign language acquisition, especially of reading comprehension, with psycholinguistic research on word recognition and ...

- Conception of anonomasiological learner's dictionary of business french (a production dictionary) based on a systematic description of word combinations. This work is inspired by the most recent developments in lexicography and lexicology (e.g. lexical functions, corpus-based lexicography,...). - Conception and compilation in a relational database of a context oriented arabic-dutch/dutch-arabic productive learner's dictionary and frequency ...

The research group Language, Education & Society is a dynamic group dedicated to the study of language learning in all its facets. The research carried out within our research group aims to unravel the interaction between (1) the learner, (2) the learner’s social and educational situation and (3) language or content via language.

The research group has four main research areas:

1. assessment
2. task-based language ...

The research group Language, Education & Society is a dynamic group dedicated to the study of language learning in all its facets. The research carried out within our research group aims to unravel the interaction between (1) the learner, (2) the learner’s social and educational situation and (3) language or content via language.

The research group has four main research areas:

1. assessment
2. task-based language ...

De onderzoeksgroep Taal & Onderwijs is een dynamische groep die zich richt op de studie van taalleren in al haar facetten. Het onderzoek dat in onze groep gedaan wordt wil de interactie tussen (1) de taalleerder, (2) desociale context en onderwijssituatie van de taalleerder en (3) de taal of inhoud via taal ontrafelen.

Onze onderzoeksgroep heeft vier onderzoeksspeerpunten:

1. evaluatie
2. taakgebaseerd ...

The research programme of the CTO includes fundamental and applied research into the relation between language, education and migration.

Research mainly focuses on language acquisition, language behaviour in multilingual settings, interaction in the language classroom, language policy, (second) language education and language testing. Special attention goes to the linguistic mechanisms that influence equity in education. This has led to ...

The research group Centre for Applied Linguistics (CTL) carries out pluridisciplinary research. Important research domains of CTL are:
- cross-cultural research (mainly verbal and non verbal communication)
- communication needs and problems of specific populations (mainly business-oriented, possibly targeting a specific sector and/or job category)
- semi-autonomous blended learning (effectiveness and ...