Projects
Boek to Book: Flanders in the Transnational Literary Field KU Leuven
‘Boek to Book’ uses a sociology of translation approach to ask, ‘How do books from Flanders travel beyond its boundaries?’ Focusing on agents of production, it examines the people (translators, acquisitions editors, distributors, critics, national literature fund officers, rights managers, literary agents, academics, etc.), institutions (source and target publishers, national literature funds, non-profit organizations, literary prizes, etc.) ...
'Savoirs numériques 59 62.' KU Leuven
Developing Intercultural Competence with Social Media in Chinese Classrooms KU Leuven
Effective intercultural communication depends not only on language skills, but also on the ability to apply these skills appropriately and efficiently in a variety of cross-cultural situations. Whether these skills can be learned with the help of social media remains an under researched area. This PhD project aims to fill this gap by focusing on the role that social media might play in the development of intercultural competence (IC). The ...
AdaCATT: Adaptive Computer-Assisted Translation Training KU Leuven
This project aims to develop and evaluate an adaptive electronic learning environment for translation trainees, suggesting translation tasks which take previous knowledge, interests and objectives of the learner into account and focus on potentially problematic translation units for the individual learner. The learning environment will support the learner in his translation task by suggesting (semi-)automated feedback and will be developed ...
Partner Programme IUC with Moi University (Kenya)(jaar 2) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
MU-K was established in 1984 as the second public university in Kenya, and is situated in the highlands in Western Kenya. The university contributes to the socio-economic welfare of western Kenya.
The IUC Partner Programme with MU-K (phase II, start December 2012) is constituted of five synergetic projects. Project 1 (CSE) deals ...
VLIR-IUS GRe@t:Governance and entrepreneurship through Research, Education, Access and Technology (GRE@T) Ghent University
This IUC with Flemish project leaders Profs Zhu Chang (VUB), Egbert De Smet (UA), Nathalie Holvoet (UA) en Wim Van Haverbeke (UHasselt) intends to build the capacity of Mzumbe University (near Morogoro) in the areas of training, education, research, infrastructure and institutional management, specifically with regard to good governance and demand-driven entrepreneurship, while ensuring sustainable support of these through (e-learning) ...
Multilingualism Workshop Southern Africa Ghent University
objectives:
1. Information exchange about the solutions that have been adopted in different university contexts in the South.
2. In-depth study of how institutions respond to multilingualism
3. Developing an equitable and efficient language learning/support policy for the university.
4. Defining scientific writing as a key compentency in higher education throughout the educational career.
An Empirical Study of Acquisition of English Discourse Markers Among Chinese EFL learners KU Leuven
As a functionally related group of expressions (Schourup 1999), discourse markers (henceforth DMs) are extensively used in daily communications. In general, they are considered as the pragmatic ‘glue’ of conversation (Schiffrin, 1987), indexing the speaker’s attitude toward the listener and the discourse (Aijmer, 2002; Fraser, 1990). Discourse markers have been described and categorized differently by various authors (Aijmer and ...
Migration & Equal Opportunity in Education – a human rights law analysis KU Leuven
Belgium is a country of immigration. Labor migration, colonial migration, the arrival of different international institutions and membership of the EU, have brought a growing amount of non-Belgians into the country. Their influence on Belgian demographics is significant, most importantly so among children. Almost thirty percent of Flemish children have a foreign background, with ten percent having no Belgian nationality. However, the Flemish ...