Projects
Research into the life and work of sister Jeanne Devos in India, composing and writing a biography about the life and work of sister Jeanne Devos. KU Leuven
Sr. Jeanne Devos is a household name in Flanders. The sister gained fame through her efforts to improve the future of home workers in Indian metropolises. Because of her fame, she becomes the central figure in this research. We conduct research into her life, after which we try to make a biography of it.
Enhancing the research possibilities of the IMOB driving simulator Hasselt University
Towards a blueprint for successful collaborative writing and revision in higher education: the interplay of instruction, interaction and writing processes and  task complexity and their relation to text quality. KU Leuven
Fostering rephrasing and cohesion strategies in academic writing in a foreign language through automated writing evaluation Ghent University
This project aims to investigate the potential and the added value of automated feedback on written syntheses produced by students of German in Flemish higher education, targeting their strategies regarding cohesion building and textual borrowing. Writing from sources in a foreign language (L2) is a genre that students majoring in languages need to master. However, because their linguistic resources are limited, they often merely cut-andpaste ...
Writing in school: powerful models VIVES
Source-based writing in L1, L2 and FL: modelling of successful process characteristics. University of Antwerp
WiLMa. Writing in a second language with machine translation Ghent University
Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process, which is why it is important to understand how L2 learners use MT tools during L2 writing and whether and how using MT impacts the writing product and process of L2 students. However, it is still unclear how L2 proficiency impacts the way L2 learners use MT tools during L2 writing. Moreover, it remains to be determined how different ...
Creative Writing in Continental Europe. A Study of Current Developments and Digital Prospects KU Leuven
During the PDM, I will focus on the development of creative writing workshops within the continental European context. The project entails two research axes. The first axis establishes a state-of-the-art of creative writing workshops in the Low Countries. By means of quantitative and qualitative research methods, I mainly aim to arrive at an insight into the significance of these workshops (e.g. as gatekeepers) for the Dutch-language literary ...