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The development of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language: effects of immersion, language background and training by means of syntactic priming. University of Antwerp

Sarah Bernolet
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)
Background:In these days of mass migration, many people learn a brand new language at a later age. This is not easy: Languages have both similarities and differences in the sentence structures with which they express particular meanings. For instance, the Dutch and French active sentences are similar in both languages (Le chat chasse la souris - De kat jaagt op de muis [The cat cases the mouse]), but Dutch has three different forms for the full ...

The acquisition of the Hindi case system by Dutch-speaking and German-speaking foreign language learners Ghent University

Klaas Willems
Department of Linguistics

This project aims to investigate developmental sequences in the foreign language acquisition of the Hindi case system. A qualitative longitudinal study will be conducted among Hindi foreign language learners in an instructed learning environment. The research will be embedded within the framework of Processability Theory, which is a second language acquisition theory that describes and explains stages of morphosyntactic development

Stylistic appropriateness in English as a foreign language: The acquisition of grammatical formality by translation trainees. University of Antwerp

Jimmy Ureel
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
An important component of communicative competence is sociolinguistic competence, which is the ability to use language appropriately in communication. Despite an increasing body of research into sociolinguistic features of foreign language (L2) learning, a feature that has received relatively little and/or one-sided treatment to date is the acquisition of sensitivity to (in)formal language use in L2 learners. This project addresses that gap by ...

Linguistic musicality: experimental research into the bond between musicality and pronunciation proficiency (intonation and accentuation) in foreign language acquisition. University of Antwerp

Lieve Vangehuchten
Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA), Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP)
Recent research in Second Language Acquisition provides evidence for the existence of a correlation between musical aptitude and pronunciation proficiency. Experimental research is necessary to examine to what extent the feeling for rhythm and intonation – the basics of musicality – converge with the processes that are responsible for pronunciation proficiency in a foreign language. Corroboration of this hypothesis offers obvious perspectives ...

Academic literacy in German as a foreign language: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of cohesion in written learner language. University of Antwerp

Carola Strobl
Grammar and Pragmatics, Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
This research project investigates how advanced learners of German as a foreign language (L2) establish cohesion in their academic L2 writing. To enable effective and reader-oriented written communication in academic and professional settings, language learners must develop the ability to create cohesion, which is a crucial component of advanced communicative competence. This means that L2 learners must learn to use grammatical and lexical ...

Fostering rephrasing and cohesion strategies in academic writing in a foreign language through automated writing evaluation Ghent University

Veronique Hoste
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

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 ...

Speech intelligibility and foreign accent: New perspectives on the perception of non-native Dutch Ghent University

Ellen Simon
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Oral proficiency targets in foreign language learning are typically expressed in terms of intelligibility. However, what makes non-native speech intelligible and accented is ill understood. The proposed project examines the link between intelligibility, foreign accentedness, and listeners' attitudes towards non-native Dutch. The results will contribute to our understanding of these concepts and underpin the teaching of Dutch as a foreign ...

Greetings from the past: on the use of interjections in foreign language textbooks from Early modern Flanders Ghent University

Ulrike Vogl
Department of Linguistics

This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks (Colloquia, et dictionariolum, 1536-1700) which we will
compile. The project will also provide insight into aspects of linguistic and cultural knowledge transfer through language teaching in Early modern ...

The Multiple Languages of Modernism: Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov, and the Making of Modern Fiction University of Antwerp

Dirk Van Hulle
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
The dissertation, "The Multiple Languages of Modernism: Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov, and the Making of Modern Fiction," shows that there are important differences between multilingual and monolingual writers and documents the creative tension resulting from writing that is informed by more than one language. I argue that a deeper awareness of the way in which multilingual literature diverges from that of monolinguals not only sheds new light on ...