I am an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University. In my research, I focus on second and foreign language acquisition and language didactics with a specific focus on vocabulary-related topics. In my doctoral (KU Leuven, 2013) as well as postdoctoral research (FWO grant 2014 - 2018), I investigated the use and effectiveness of multimodal input for L2 learning.

I teach courses on teaching methodology (foreign languages) and research methods in SLA and I coordinate the Master of Teaching Languages. I supervise PhD projects on (second or foreign) language acquisition and language teaching. I currently (co-)supervise 5 PhD students (see Projects).

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Projects as co-supervisor

Reading skills and reading motivation among Flemish students in the Latin classroom (2024 - 2029)
WiLMa. Writing in a second language with machine translation (2021 - 2024)
Centre for diversity and learning (1995 -

Projects as researcher

DPC. Dutch parallel corpus (2006 - 2009)

Publications

Key publications

Enhancing vocabulary learning through captioned video : an eye-tracking study(2015)
- Maribel Montero Perez
- Elke Peters
- Piet Desmet
Captioned video for L2 listening and vocabulary learning : a meta-analysis(2013)
- Maribel Montero Perez
- Wim Van Den Noortgate
- Piet Desmet
Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing video : the role of vocabulary knowledge and working memory(2020)
- Maribel Montero Perez

Most recent publications

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Teaching