Projects
A study of BIYO, an endangered Chinese ethnic minority language of the Lolo-Burmese family: Language documentation and an analytical approach to the system of discourse markers in contact with Southwestern Mandarin Ghent University
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, the language is very rarely transmitted to the younger generation which prefers Chinese or English as daily means
of communication. As such, the language community is continuously shrinking and the language is on the verge of ...
The grammaticalization of the future and conditional tense in the history of Ibero-Romance: a language and dialect contact approach Ghent University
OZR Backup mandate: Is CLIL beneficial for everyone? Exploring the effectiveness of Content and Language Integrated Learning in heterogeneous language contexts present in Flemish Community schools in Brussels. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(CLIL) has gained ever-increasing popularity in European education
contexts. The benefits of CLIL programs are therefore well
documented. Although the extent may vary depending on the
research context, CLIL often results in greater proficiency in the
program’s Target Language (TL), with few to no drawbacks in terms
of the learners’ mother tongue ...
Language contact: Local, European and theoretical perspectives Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Language Ideologies in Scientific Discourses on Content & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Sociolinguistic and Discourse Analysis. Ghent University
Via comparative quantitative and qualitative analyses I investigate language ideologies in scientific discourses on CLIL. To this end, I determine (i) how CLIL has been defined and promoted in scientific discourses; (ii) to what extent the genre of key scientific discourses on CLIL is ‘hybrid’.
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) for a multilingual society: project-based work in a super-diverse field of study AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
EMI in Vietnamese Higher Education: A Study of Interrelations between Students' Perceptions, English Language Proficiency, and Content Mastery. KU Leuven
The doctoral project proposed here aims to (1) investigate the CLIL teaching-and-learning situation among Can Tho lecturers and students of three main faculties where English is used as a medium of instruction namely School of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication, and Faculty of Technology (the sciences department), (2) develop and evaluate a lecturer CLIL teaching training program, and ...