Projects

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Narrative, Metaphor and Metamorphosis: The Ecological Potential of Contemporary Children's Literature

2022

Situated at the intersection of the study of children’s literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary criticism, this project revisits the question of the transformational potential of children’s literature in light of ...read more
CARL. Cross-lingual Analysis of Reading demands in the L2 classroom

2022

This project aims to determine the text characteristics of reading materials used in the Flemish EFL and FFL classroom, as well as the role of the L2 teacher in the ...read more
Didactics
Education
Language acquisition
Language and text analysis
language learning
Language technology
Linguistics
Natural language processing
Quantitative
Reading
Second language acquisition
Albert Lautman: from mathematical philosophy to metaphysics?

2022

The work of the philosopher-mathematician, Albert Lautman (1908-1944), situated within the French historical epistemological landscape of the 20th-century, is characterized by a fascinating an unique interplay between metaphysics, mathematics and ...read more
20th Century
Philosophy
Effects of second language acquisition on cognitive development: A longitudinal study

2022

A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
Belgium
Contemporary
Dutch
English
French
Linguistics
Quantitative
Listening to accents. Intelligibility of casual and accented spoken English to Flemish learners of English as a Foreign Language

2022

The proposed project sets out to examine how regional and non-native accents in spoken English affect the intelligibility for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Listening to a second ...read more
English
Linguistics
A cultural history of the internal organs in premodern Japan (2021 - 2025)

2022

This project investigates views on the internal body in premodern Japan. In particular, the theory of the five viscera, or gozôron will be of interest. Several handwritten sources from the Edo period ...read more
Omsloten werelden: Gezondheid en welzijn in de prostitutiekwartieren (kuruwa) van de Edoperiode (1603-1868)

2022

Prostitution in Japan has been a much studied subject in recent years. The state-sanctioned, highly regulated prostitution practised in the so-called enclosed quarters (kuruwa) of the Edo period (1600-1868) in ...read more
Performing the ethical body in early modern health discourses

2022

The proposed project aims to deepen our understanding of the influence of Neo-Confucian ethics on the perception of the human body, particularly as seen in early modern Japanese popular vernacular ...read more
DAWN. Dutch Automated Writing evaluation through NLP

2022

The primary research objective of this project is to use machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing evaluation. Besides providing an overall holistic evaluation of the writing product, various modules ...read more
Contemporary
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Gardens of Fear and Fame: Ecophobia and conceptualisations of nature in the Dutch 'hofdicht' (1653-1710)

2022

This project explores the early modern attitude toward nature through the very popular literary medium of the "hofdicht". In this genre the gardens and country houses of the elite are ...read more
17th Century
18th Century
Dutch
Dutch literature
Early Modern literature
Ecocriticism
Language and text analysis
Literary studies

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