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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 ...

www.EUR.Friends: w(orking) w(ith) w(eb). Eur(egional)/(opean). Friends Hasselt University

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 ...

Predicting the receptive lexical Competence of Language Learners through a personalised and adaptive Model integrating a meaning-based Approach KU Leuven

Cédrick Fairon, Piet Desmet
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

This project is situated in the intersection of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Natural Language Processing and aims at modeling the receptive lexical competence of French and Dutch as a foreign language learners. Recently, a number of computational linguistic models have been elaborated to automatically predict a language learner's individual lexical competence. However, these studies present two shortcomings: (1) they adopt a ...

The effectiveness of technology-enhanced language learning for lexical competence in speaking: The case of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in Vietnam. KU Leuven

Elke Peters
Language and Education, Antwerp Campus, Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

Research has shown that there is a strong relationship between vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency (Staehr, 2008). Most research so far has focused on vocabulary and written skills and reading in particular. Only recently, vocabulary research has shifted its attention to listening (Staehr, 2009; Van Zeeland & Schmitt, 2013). However, there are hardly any studies on vocabulary acquisition and speaking. Therefore, this project ...

Life is a pitch: self-presentation in the age of corporate speak University of Antwerp

Tom Van Hout
Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP)
Success in the digital economy depends largely on the ability to present yourself in entrepreneurial terms. This requires autobiographical identity work in all-purpose narratives of professional accomplishment and merit. Such narratives present the self as a dynamic and transferable bundle of skills, experiences, and achievements across a range of mobile communicative contexts such as job applications, academic profiles and professional ...

Language learning through task-based interaction with chatbots KU Leuven

Piet Desmet
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

Considering the existing evidence of the effectiveness of synchronous computer-mediated communication on the development of L2 oral proficiency (Lin, 2015), combined with the scarcity of opportunities to interact with native speakers in most foreign language learning contexts, ICALL researchers have long been interested in developing systems that would allow a learner to have a meaning-focused interaction in L2 with a conversational agent ...

Promoting tertiary students' writing. A subject-specific genre-based approach. KU Leuven

Lieve De Wachter
Leuven Language Institute (ILT), Instructional Psychology and Technology

In recent years, embedding writing into subject teaching through genre-based writing instruction (GBWI) has been advocated in L1 tertiary education to promote student writing. However, little is known about how this approach can be shaped and implemented in higher education. In this design-based research project in the first year of Dutch higher professional education, the aim was to investigate how subject-specific GBWI can be prepared and ...

S&L : "Speak and Learn" Language Course for Exchange Students (17 Languages of the EU Member-States on Mobile devices) Hasselt University

Center for Applied Linguistics
Thanks to the Erasmus, Leonardo and Comenius programmes, mobility of young Europeans is increasing. However, it very often happens that students have difficulties adapting to a new country because they do not speak the local language. Moreover, they have communication problems arising from the fact that English, German or French, which are usually taught as the second language at schools, are not spoken by the people of all EU Member States. ...

Minutes of the XII Mixed Commission Flanders - Quebec March 31, 2011 in Brussels / Work Programme for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. Hasselt University

Martine VERJANS
Center for Applied Linguistics
In the framework of the "Entente Québec-Flanders", the Centre of Applied Linguistics will do an exploratory and preparatory investigation with a view to a later fundamental research with the following partners in the following domains: - With the CCDMD-Montréal (Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique) and its university partners : - Which intercultural differences exist in the business negotiation between Flemish and ...