Dr. Chloé Lybaert

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Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen

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About

Work experience

2017 - present: working at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University as curriculum manager.
2014 – present: working at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University as a postdoctoral research and teaching assistant. I teach Dutch as a second language and Dutch linguistics and proficiency courses, and I am studying language variation in Flanders.
2014 – present: working at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp at AP University College Antwerp as a lecturer. I teach communication courses to trainee teachers and I supervise their research projects.
2014 – 2015: worked at the Department of Linguistics – Dutch at Ghent University as an academic staff member of ‘Taalonthaal’, helping students in one-to-one sessions with their writing assignments and teaching academic writing courses (http://taalonthaal.ugent.be).
2010 – 2014: worked at the Department of Linguistics – Dutch at Ghent University as a doctoral researcher on a Ph.D. about the perceptions and attitudes of non-linguistically educated Flemings towards language variation in Flanders in general and tussentaal in specific. I also taught Dutch Linguistics and Dutch Command of Language to first- and third-year students and I (co-)supervised bachelor and master dissertations.

Education

2013 – 2015: Teacher training course: specialisation NT2 (Dutch as a second language). Het Perspectief pcvo.
2014 – 2015: Teacher training course: ‘CLIL – masterclass’ (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Het Perspectief pcvo.
2010 – 2014: Doctor in Linguistics. Doctoral School for Arts, Humanities and Law. Ghent University. Doctoral dissertation about 'Het gesproken Nederlands in Vlaanderen: percepties en attitudes van een spraakmakende generatie' (Spoken Dutch in Flanders: Perceptions and attitudes of a high-profile generation). Supervisors: prof. dr. Johan De Caluwe (Ghent University) and prof. dr. Jacques Van Keymeulen (Ghent University). Doctoral guidance committee: prof. dr. Gunther De Vogelaer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) and Prof. dr. Reinhild Vandekerckhove (Universiteit Antwerpen).
2011 – 2013: Teacher training course. Het Perspectief pcvo.
2009 – 2010: Master in Language and Literature: Dutch-English. Ghent University.
2006 – 2009: Bachelor in Language and Literature: Dutch-English. Ghent University.

Research groups

A member of the UGent research group MULTIPLES (Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society)
A member of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum
A member of SLICE Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe
A member of Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek

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Teaching

I work at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University, where I teach Dutch as a second language in the postgraduate Dutch and Translation: (CEFR A1, A2, C1). I am also one of the teachers of 'Nederlands: taalpraktijk', 'Nederlands: schrijfvaardigheid' and 'Nederlands: revisie'.