Projects
Cross-Channel Stylistic Exchanges: A Stylometric Approach to the Impact of Mobility and Multilingualism on Medieval Latin Literature (1000–1150) Ghent University
This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization in this period, an important religious and intellectual migration took place along the channel, making it a contact zone of literary interchange. England became a polyglot melting pot of cultures where Latin, English, French ...
Multilingualism, translation and minor languages in contemporary world literature KU Leuven
Since its emergence in the 18th century, monolingualism has had a strong impact on literature and culture. Despite its avowed global perspective, world literature still leans towards monolingualism. Not only does it focus on writers who write in major languages, while peripheral regions and minor languages are off the map, but it also favours monolingual works. Multilingual texts are often considered untranslatable or incomprehensible, which ...
Urban Multilingualism in Switzerland: Communicative Practices and Language Attitudes Ghent University
Organization of a training course on language stimulation and multilingualism with young children KU Leuven
This concerns a training program on language policy in Leuven childcare facilities for young children.
The route includes:
* session language policy, what and how
* session language stimulation
* session practical work sessions 1 and 2
* coaching for individual childcare workers from the various daycare centers
* determine session priorities
* evaluate and ...
ProEMC2: Promoting Early Multilingualism in Childhood and Childcare Ghent University
Renewal in Basic Facilities for Young Children (VBJK) is an R&D center certified by the federal government. VBJK focuses on the childcare sector and its professionalization through process supervision and product development. Because VBJK has a long tradition of working with stakeholders within the childcare and parenting support sectors, they are a unique partner for the consortium. VBJK has a leading role in the development and ...
Promoting Early Multilingualism in Childhood and Childcare (ProEMC2). KU Leuven
Although language diversity poses short-term challenges, early multilingualism and multiliteracy come with great benefits, at least, when it is correctly supported. Currently, many language minority (LM) families are distressed about language issues and many early childhood (EC) professionals (such as parenting advisors and childcare staff) feel insecure in their approach toward LM families. This project aims to transform this societal ...
3M: More chances with Multilingualism Ghent University
Teachers in Frisian primary schools are looking for good strategies to recognize multilingualism and to use it effectively. Where education so far was bi- and trilingual (Frisian, Dutch and English), teachers now increasingly have to deal with foreign-language migrant pupils. Teachers want to find answers to two problems with these strategies. First, they experience problems in dealing with migrant languages: they indicate that they do not ...
Training course on language stimulation and multilingualism in young children KU Leuven
The organization of a training and guidance program for the professionalisation of language policy teams in reception initiatives. Various routes are possible depending on the starting position and the need for the reception initiative.
Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by Facebook users of Iranian descent in Belgium Ghent University
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional salience of the various languages used, (ii) their functional role in the interactional architecture of social media, (iii) the
connections with the construction of a diasporic space characterized by fragmented/dislocated ...