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The dynamics of language policies in two urban secondary schools in post-monolingual Flanders Ghent University

Piet Van Avermaet
Department of Linguistics

The aim of the proposed research project is to explore the localised ways in which teachers, students and school management staffs handle, negotiate and navigate migrant-background studentsU+2019 multilingual repertoires in a post-monolingual societal condition. Ethnographic research using a variety of qualitative methods will be conducted in two matched urban secondary schools
which contrast in their pursued language policies.

The development of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language: effects of immersion, language background and training by means of syntactic priming. University of Antwerp

Sarah Bernolet
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)
Background:In these days of mass migration, many people learn a brand new language at a later age. This is not easy: Languages have both similarities and differences in the sentence structures with which they express particular meanings. For instance, the Dutch and French active sentences are similar in both languages (Le chat chasse la souris - De kat jaagt op de muis [The cat cases the mouse]), but Dutch has three different forms for the full ...

Nedbox digital platform. KU Leuven

Mariet Schiepers
Centre for Language and Education, Leuven

This research project involves the management of NedBox and the development of a prototype of a new digital space 'NedBox Start', for non-native speakers who are lower literate.

Goals of the management of Nedbox are:
. Continuation of existing substantive and technical management activities;
. Increasing the number of new items on NedBox;
. Conducting targeted promotion and communication actions;
. Adaptive ...

Stylistic appropriateness in English as a foreign language: The acquisition of grammatical formality by translation trainees. University of Antwerp

Jimmy Ureel
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
An important component of communicative competence is sociolinguistic competence, which is the ability to use language appropriately in communication. Despite an increasing body of research into sociolinguistic features of foreign language (L2) learning, a feature that has received relatively little and/or one-sided treatment to date is the acquisition of sensitivity to (in)formal language use in L2 learners. This project addresses that gap by ...

Expert sensitivity to linguistic formality as a benchmark for measuring stylistic translation revision competence. University of Antwerp

Jimmy Ureel
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
This project directly contributes to the foundation of experimental research into the acquisition of translation revision competence. Funding is required to create a benchmark for the stylistic revision of a formal academic translation. The benchmark will guarantee the validity and reliability of ensuing experimental research. The data-collection instrument used for the benchmark and ensuing research consists of a source text (academic text in ...

Collocations in a Flemish Learner Corpus: an approximation to the concept from a pedagogical perspective and its language teaching implications KU Leuven

Kris Buyse
Leuven Language Institute (ILT)
This thesis proposal is aimed at studying collocations employed by Flemish learners of Spanish as a foreign language (FL). The main purpose is to analyse how Spanish collocations are produced by undergraduate Ll Flemish learners and which collocations they produce accurately or cause them difficulties. I will rely upon a learner corpus created at KU Leuven called Aprescrilov (Aprender a escribir en Lovaina), as a result of the ElektraRed ...

How to stimulate reflection on the disciplinary future self through internships: challenges and opportunities. KU Leuven

Liesbet Heyvaert
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Kulak Kortrijk Campus

Disciplinaire persoonsvorming via stages en praktijkervaringen: opleidingsspecifieke en facultaire uitdagingen en kansen

In het onderwijsbeleidsplan van de KU Leuven (2014-2017) wordt sterk de nadruk gelegd op het belang van het voortdurend aanspreken en ter discussie stellen van het disciplinaire future self van studenten en op de bijdrage die de universiteit op die manier kan leveren tot hun ...

Ministerial decision awarding the grant for the period 01.09.2017 to 31.08.18 at Hasselt University for organizing Olyfran. Hasselt University

Martine VERJANS
Center for Applied Linguistics
The grant is awarded at Hasselt University for the organization of the Flemish Olympiad of French: Olyfran 2017-2018, particularly Olyfran-max , Olyfran Junior and Olyfran-Cadet. This grant was awarded under the Covenant between the Flemish Community and the Flemish Math Olympiad association, KU Leuven, Hasselt University and the association Certaminacomité 2013-2018, approved by the Flemish Government on 08/11/2013.

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Center for Applied Linguistics
The project meets the objectives and project categories mentioned in the Interreg VA programme by supporting actions fostering language learning and in-company placements, revaluating vocational education, cross-border mobility, students', workers' and job seekers' training. The core idea of this project is to create a sustainable network within the EMR by stimulating professional mobility and improving communication skills (languages and ...