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Can you read me? Investigating textbook reading materials and the coverage–comprehension relationship in the English and French foreign language classroom

Start - End 
2022 - 2026 (ongoing)
Type 
PhD research
Department(s) 
Department of Linguistics
Research group(s) 
LT3 - Language and Translation Technology Team
MULTIPLES - Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society
Research Focus 
Didactics
Language technology
Linguistics
Research Methodology 
Language and text analysis
Quantitative
Additional tags 
Second language acquisition
Education
Reading
Natural language processing
language learning
Language acquisition

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Abstract

This project aims to determine the text characteristics of reading materials used in the Flemish EFL and FFL classroom, as well as the influence of these text characteristics on learners' text comprehension. The investigation combines NLP-driven and behavioural methods.

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