Projects
This is my language, and yet it is not. Towards a clear and consistent use of terminology in the legal language in social law. KU Leuven
For the longest time, the language used in legal texts has been subject to severe criticism: legal texts are written in a difficult, archaic language, and their structure is near to inaccessible. However, this ascertainment has never lead to anything more than just that: there is hardly any concrete advice to make changes, and hardly any systematic research into this problem has been done.
The aim of this research is to make a first ...
Sabbatical Walter Schaeken: Deepening and integration of spatial reasoning and pragmatic language use KU Leuven
I will link my stay at the Università degli Studi di Torino to two of my research lines, namely spatial reasoning and pragmatic language use. First, I will develop with Prof. Bucciarelli and Dr. Ianì a series of studies to investigate whether motor simulation plays a role in spatial reasoning. Reasoning can be understood as the construction and manipulation of mental models, which are constructed on the basis of observed or described states. ...
Take Signing to the Child. On the Parental Use of Visual Communication Strategies, and Deaf ChildrenU+2019s Visual Communication and Early Flemish Sign Language. Ghent University
This dissertation wants to deliver an original contribution to the existing national and international Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment research, mainly in four domains:
First, the exploratory case study is the first detailed description of a moderately deaf childU+2019s Flemish Sign Language development, with native exposure to Flemish Sign Language (VGT) from birth up to the age of 24 months. Remarkable linguistic and ...
What you see is what you get? Use and effectiveness of multimodal input for second language learning KU Leuven
Nowadays, the Internet offers numerous kinds of online videos, among which educational ones (e.g. MOOCs, flipped classroom, TED talks, but also numerous channels on YouTube). Those videos enable people to get instruction in a multitude of different subjects by themselves. This phenomenon usually involves more frequent contact with foreign languages via audiovisual input. Therefore, the easy availability of foreign online educational videos ...
Normativity or creativity? The use and perception of substandard language features in online consumer and corporate comments on social media Ghent University
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of substandard language characteristics (old and new vernaculars) in public positive and negative consumer comments and company responses on social media. We also investigate the effect of company accommodation in these contexts, taking into account the polarity of the message and the actual language characteristics.
Vocabulary Development and Language Learning Strategy Use in CLIL in the Czech Context KU Leuven
This research focuses on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) being one important approach in modern education. More specifically, during the study, CLIL was examined in connection with vocabulary development and language learning strategies.
The research took place in the Czech Republic and comprised a sample of 286 pupils ranging from 11 to 14 years of age; a total of 12 classes spread over three schools. Ten of the classes ...
Termwise: Creating resources specialised language use. KU Leuven
InSight Linguistics - developing a 3-D landscape of language use. KU Leuven
From the promised land: a historical sociolinguistic study of the influence of English on the language use of Flemish emigrants Vrije Universiteit Brussel
heritage languages in North America. While the dynamics between
English and many Western languages have indeed already been
abundantly studied, research on Heritage Belgian Dutch remains
uncovered ground to a very large extent. Nevertheless, Belgian
Dutch forms an interesting case study because of its rather unique
sociolinguistic history. ...