< Back to previous page
Organisation
Language, Education and Society, Brussels Campus
Research Group
Main organisation:Linguistics Research Unit, Brussels Campus
Lifecycle:1 Jan 2013 → Today
Organisation profile:
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:
- assessment
- task-based language teaching
- vocabulary
- writing
Other research topics that are covered in our research group are:
- Implicit and explicit language learning
- Instructed Second Language Acquisition
- Language policy, language and equal opportunities, multilingualism
- Language proficiency
Keywords:Education, language acquisition, language assessment, vocabulary, writing, task-based language teaching
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of literary studies, Instructional sciences