Projects
Speech intelligibility and foreign accent: New perspectives on the perception of non-native Dutch Ghent University
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 ...
Foreign Crime Stories in Flanders (1900-1940): Translating a Popular Genre, Disseminating Ideas Ghent University
This project focusses on a selection of the many foreign crime stories in translation in Flanders between c. 1900 and 1940. The corpus comprises both crime stories that were published as books and crime stories that appeared in serial form in newspapers. The present research is the first to map out the circulation of foreign (mostly English and French) crime fiction in early-twentieth-century Flanders and to analyze the strategies that ...
Writing the history of industrial enterprises in modern ChinaAnalysing the role of local and foreign models KU Leuven
‘THE RECEPTION AND TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN CULTURES IN BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIODICALS, 1802-1817.’ KU Leuven
Translating the news: an ethnographically supported linguistic pragmatic study of the role and nature of translation in the Flemish newsroom. University of Antwerp
Pedagogical content knowledge in French: Disentangling its development KU Leuven
Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) (Shulman, 1986b) is an important predictor of educational quality and student outcomes (e.g., Baumert et al., 2010; Kunter et al., 2013). Hence, it is an important task of teacher education to contribute to PCK development in the best possible way. The present project aims at a better understanding of the development of PCK. The project focuses on primary (pre-service) teachers’ PCK of French as a ...
Development of key package for language exams French ans NT2 for teachers Hasselt University
Challenging the European Monoculture: Towards a Policy on the Diversification of the European Literary Field. KU Leuven
Digi (language) in the workplace: KU Leuven
With this project proposal we want to contribute to the creation of sustainable employment opportunities
for the group of foreign-speaking newcomers in Flanders, where we want this target group
in the field of 21st century skills, in particular in the field of language and
digital skills. What is innovative about this project is that we have a more learner-oriented approach
want to work out, where from the start of the ...