Projects
Solving Combinatorial and Probabilistic Problems in Natural Language. University of Antwerp
The language connectome: insights from advanced structural and functional imaging techniques KU Leuven
One of the most intriguing aspects of human kind is our unique capacity for rapidly acquiring speech and language in the early years of life. However, disorders in speech and language are among the most common developmental problems in childhood. They can restrict the child from social participation and academic achievement and may lead to a permanent dysfunction. Equally, children’s intellectual and linguistic or communicative skills play an ...
Synthesis writing in upper-secondary education: From a baseline of texts and processes to process-oriented feedback KU Leuven
Context
This dissertation was carried out within the framework of the LIFT-project. The LIFT-project (Improving pre-university students' performance in academic synthesis tasks with Level-up Instructions and Feedback Tool) is a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project's goal was to provide feedback and instruction on students' synthesis writing, based on national baseline data.
It is important that ...
Non scholae sed vitae? An Empirical Study on the Cognitive Transfer Effects of Studying Classical Languages in Flemish Secondary Education Ghent University
Do smart pupils study classical languages (CLs), or does studying CLs make pupils smart? Anglo-Saxon research suggests that Latin pupils surpass their Latin-less peers in L1 ability c.q. English, and that studying Latin possibly has a positive effect on mathematical skills as well. However, it has not been settled whether these results are due to preselectivity (pupil influx) or cognitive transfer (one task affecting another). While a ...