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Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts. University of Antwerp

Kris Van De Poel
Grammar and Pragmatics
A participatory approach to Medical Communication TrainingResearch Question: How does the lecturer meet the (verbal) communication needs of medical pre-professionals in a blended learning environment?Towards a taxonomy of the communication needs of medical pre-professionals.Background In order to investigate the issues raised in the research question the focus is on medical students from the University of Stellenbosch for whom it is compulsory ...

Plain language for financial content: Assessing the impact of training on students' revisions and readers' comprehension (PLanTra). University of Antwerp

Luuk Van Waes
Management
With the responsibility for financial decisions shifting from institutions to individuals, the ability to understand financial information (known as 'financial literacy') is paramount. Having reduced financial literacy results in higher risk of over-indebtedness, and in reduced ability to manage one's wealth. Text simplification, involving the use of plain language, is one of the strategies adopted to meet the needs of low-literacy readers. The ...

Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts; University of Antwerp

Kris Van De Poel
Grammar and Pragmatics
Towards an effective blended online mentoring model for language practitionersThe study assesses the effectiveness of mentor-mentee relationships formed online between more experienced and less experienced language practitioners as an alternative to conventional face-to-face mentoring. Traditionally, mentoring relationships were formed fairly informally inhouse in publishing houses and communications bureaus/departments, when less experienced ...

Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT). University of Antwerp

Dirk Van Hulle
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
For this reason ten leading European institutions from universities and academies closely collaborating with the private sector and cultural heritage institutions intend to form one of the most innovative training networks for a new generation of scholars in the field of digital scholarly editing. DiXiT training programme offers a combination of network-wide training modules (Camps & Conventions) and local specialist training in connection ...

A Synergetic Training Network on Energy beam Processing: from Modelling to Industrial Applications KU Leuven

Patrick De Causmaecker
Computer Science, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

With the use of more advanced, but difficult-to-cut materials, on ever-more sophisticated products, the need to further develop and utilise the particular capabilities of the energy beam (EB) processing techniques seem to become a key enabler for the European industry. Although they are of various nature, a set of key communalities can be identified among EB methods when considered as dwell-time dependent processes; this allows the treatment ...

Accessible Culture and Training (ACT). University of Antwerp

Aline Remael
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
Accessibility plays a major role in modern knowledge-based Information societies. The potential of Accessibility through ICT and Assistive Technologies (AT) for inclusion and participation of all citizens is increasingly growing allowing for a full integration in everyday life. The proportion of people depending on Accessibility (15% in 2013) increases and EU demography shows the growing tendency to eAccessiblity dependency for its ageing ...

Commonsense and Anticipation enriched Learning of Continuous representations sUpporting Language UnderStanding KU Leuven

Marie-Francine Moens
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Natural language understanding (NLU) by the machine is of large scientific, economic and social value. Humans perform the NLU task in an efficient way by relying on their capability to imagine or anticipate situations. They engage commonsense and world knowledge that is often acquired through perceptual experiences to make explicit what is left implicit in language. Inspired by these characteristics CALCULUS will design, implement and ...

Adding Plurilingual Approaches to language Teacher Competences in Higher Education (APATCHE) University of Antwerp

Kris Peeters
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
The aim of the APATCHE project is expressed by its acronym and title. It is to "Add Plurilingual Approaches to languageTeacher Competences in Higher Education", by raising awareness through various publications, dissemination events, amethodology for curriculum development and an online training course. Plurilingual approaches to language learning andteaching are approaches that value all languages present in the increasingly multilingual ...

TIComKMO : language proficiency and intercultural competent SMEs Hasselt University

Martine VERJANS
Center for Applied Linguistics
This people to people project aims to enforce the linguistic and intercultural competences of KMO's/MKBs within the EMR. It aims to improve communication between KMO's/MKBs among themselves within the EMR, but also between KMO's in the EMR and companies in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders and Walloon), Germany and France. After the EMR sub-regions, these bigger entities are the most important trade partners of KMO's/MKBs of the EMR. ...

Learning scenarios to support inclusive language and culture education for heterogeneous school classes (E-Learnscene). University of Antwerp

Tom Smits
Didactica
Through numerous language policy initiatives on the one hand and new findings from language teaching research on the other, existing input-oriented language acquisition and learning models have been replaced by an output- and competence-oriented language acquisition and learning perspective, at the same time demonstrating the complexity and dynamics of language acquisition by multilingual individuals. Above all, however, the introduction of the ...