Projects
Multilingualism in Secondary Education in Flanders: The Dynamics of Language Policy Ghent University
Legitimizing linguistic hierarchization: Elite multilingualism at an IB-accredited international school. University of Antwerp
Supporting professionals in dealing with multilingualism in Early Childhood Education and Care. Ghent University
Professionals working in ECEC are challenged by the multilingual reality in today's society. There is a lack of theory and practice on how to handle multilingualism in a positive way in relation to parents and children. From a socio-pedagogical perspective, this PhD project investigates the professional development of childcare workers and preschool teachers in contexts of multilingualism and diversity.
Language Change and Multilingualism Ghent University
Languages change in both monolingual and multilingual environments. Multilingual communication involves using more than one language/dialect simultaneously in a communication environment. Although language mixing is observed initially at the surface level, structural and grammatical changes may also take place at the underlying levels depending on other variables in the context. There are challenges in identifying, processing and categorizing ...
 Lost in Translation? Multilingualism in Early Song in the Low Countries (1350-1550) Alamire Foundation
Multilingualism is a widely discussed societal phenomenon. The present project aims to contribute to a betterunderstanding of multilingualism from a specific historical perspective: medieval and early modern song(1350-1550) in the Low Countries. A multidisciplinary collaboration between musicologists,musicians, translation scholars, (literary) historians, and database specialists will focus on mapping outmultilingualism in the songs’ material ...
Lost in Translation? Multilingualism in Early Song in the Low Countries (1350-1550) KU Leuven
Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by Facebook users of Iranian descent in Belgium Ghent University
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional salience of the various languages used, (ii) their functional role in the interactional architecture of social media, (iii) the
connections with the construction of a diasporic space characterized by fragmented/dislocated ...
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, ...