This project aims to analyse language ideologies in key scientific discourses on Content & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), i.e. the European model for immersion-teaching actively promoted by the European Union ...read more
There has long been a need for experience-based culture-general approaches in intercultural business communication courses. Scholars have described the potential of the Japanese martial art of aikido, which offers ...read more
The project aims at describing interpreter-mediation in the context of police interviews that result in written records and to assess the impact of interpreter-mediation on the interview and the written ...read more
The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian-Dutch speakers who have ...read more
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely ...read more
We identify two main aims in the project. The first aim of this study project is to examine the reasons for the poor literacy performance of South African learners who ...read more
The project aims to explore the cognitive load of sign language interpreting and compare it with oral interpreting. The premise aims to establish whether sign language interpreters face a comparable ...read more
Fouad Laroui is one of the leading Francophone contemporary writers of Moroccan origin living in the Netherlands and writing in French and Dutch, a multicultural polyglot author whose work is ...read more
The PLATOS project aims at investigating stance and argument detection on automatically extracted topics in social media text by combining linguistic knowledge and machine learning. In the proposed research, we ...read more
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of non-standard language features (old and new vernacular) in public consumer comments and company responses on social media.