Projects

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Re-BAR Boundaries of the Religious

2025

This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Arabic
Area studies
Comparative
Contemporary
Didactics
English
Ethics and morality
Field research
Gender
Geographic and map based
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Literary studies
Media
Middle Ages
Middle East
Philosophy
Religion
Language Tests for migration and integration: a comparative analysis of evidential and consequential validity

2025

This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more
Comparative
Didactics
Dutch
English
Field research
German
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Surveys
Western Europe
Accent bias in secondary and higher education

2024

This project examines accent bias in Flemish secondary and higher education, focusing on biases towards students with foreign and regional accents. Using a combination of methodologies, we study how teachers perceive students’ ...read more
Didactics
Linguistics
Cross-lingual assessment of lexical and grammatical reading demands in the L2 classroom and their effect on learners' comprehension

2022

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' ...read more
Didactics
Education
Language acquisition
Language and text analysis
language learning
Language technology
Linguistics
Natural language processing
Quantitative
Reading
Second language acquisition
Sustainability of the game Kr8cht!

2022

Verduurzaming van de game Kr8cht!: disseminatie, evaluatie en langetermijnplanningread more
Belgium
Contemporary
Didactics
Dutch
Field research
MELA. The meaning of language. A digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in late Constantinople

2022

Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
15th Century
Asia
Communication
Comparative
Didactics
Eastern Europe
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Linguistics
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Quantitative
E-course multilingualism and learning

2021

In this project CDL and Tecolab, both affiliated with Ghent University, combine their complementary expertise to develop an e-course 'multilingualism and learning' for working teachers in nursary, primary and secondary ...read more
Belgium
Contemporary
Didactics
Dutch
Interculturalism
language learning
Linguistics
Multilingualism
English-medium instruction and linguistic nationalism. Tensions between the promotion of the local language and university internationalisation

2020

In this research project, we will explore the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) at universities in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and how the place of the local language in ...read more
Communication
Didactics
Linguistics
SCAP. Spanish corpus annotation project

2020

The Spanish Corpus Annotation Project provides a platform that applies Natural Language Processing, Corpus analysis and Computer-Assisted Language Learning techniques an methodologies to Spanish.read more
Didactics
Language technology
Linguistics
Spanish
Syntax, semantics and discourse function of shell nouns in French and Romanian

2019

Shell nouns are a nominal category that has first been conceptualized by cognitive linguists such as Schmid (2000). This concept was later translated and further explored by French researchers (Legallois, 2006; ...read more
20th Century
Communication
Comparative
Construction grammar
Contemporary
Corpus-based
Corpus linguistics
Didactics
Eastern Europe
French
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Quantitative
Romanian
shell nouns
Western Europe