Projects
The Foreign-Language Effect in Social Marketing. University of Antwerp
Smart subtitling for powerful learning among foreign-language learners Karel De Grote Hogeschool
ExpoVoc: Exposure to English and vocabulary learning: the unique case of young English-as-a-foreign-language learners in Flanders KU Leuven
Multilingualism as a reality at school Ghent University
Foreign-Heid is often associated with weaker school performance. They make a division between the home language of the student and the school language. It is often assumed that the home language would be the acquisition of the school language in the way. But in Flanders, there is little research on the effects of non-native performance and the current investigation is limited to the Dutch division versus foreign language students. However, ...
CLIL in primary education VIVES
CLIL in primary education VIVES
Subtitles for access to education: Exploring the impact of intralingual and interlingual subtitling of L2 English university lectures on cognitive load and comprehension. University of Antwerp
Pragmatic markers in native and non-native Englishes: A study into the use of and attitudes to pragmatic markers KU Leuven
The project is set to contribute to our understanding of the use of pragmatic markers (such as so, well, you know, like) by three different types of language users: native speakers of English, learners of English as a foreign language whose mother tongue is Dutch, and speakers who use English as a means of communication on a day-to-day basis. Its main research objective is to compare these three types of speakers of English in terms of their: ...