Projects
Language policy training program tailored to secondary schools in the Flemish periphery around Brussels. KU Leuven
Within this training programme, the Center for Language and Education (CTO) develops the necessary know-how among the participants to develop an effective language policy with the aim of strengthening their education and their students. They base this on recent (language learning) research and train core teams to become language policy experts. The core teams are given the necessary tools to involve the school team in developing and ...
Training 'Expert in language policy for primary education in Brussels. KU Leuven
Multilingualism in Secondary Education in Flanders: The Dynamics of Language Policy Ghent University
MiPRiS: Multilingualism in Prisons and Reintegration into Society: an interdisciplinary evaluation of Belgian language legislation, policy and practice within a European human rights framework. KU Leuven
Corporate language policy and categorising professionals in workplace encounters. University of Antwerp
Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level. Ghent University
This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at ...
Mapping metatext. On semantics of connectors, nature of conjunction and non-correspondence of metatexts of various languages on example of metatextual units marking opposition in Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, English and Dutch KU Leuven
Deaf sign language + right: sign language, equal opportunities and sustainable development Ghent University
Deaf sign language deaf + + equal sign language: sign language, equal opportunities and sustainable development Flemish government
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’.