Dr. Alexander De Soete

alexander.desoete@ugent.be

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MULTIPLES - Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society

Onderzoeksgebied

Linguistics

Onderzoeksmethode

Field research

Language and text analysis

Surveys

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Alexander De Soete holds a PhD in Linguistics from Ghent University and the University of the Western Cape and is affiliated with the MULTIPLES research cluster at Ghent University. As a sociolinguist, his work focuses on English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education. His previous research examined the role of multilingualism in EMI classrooms, with particular attention to lecturer agency and the co-production of language policy. His current research explores students’ interactional competence in EMI settings.

Projecten

Projecten als postdoctoraal medewerker

Students’ interactional competence in EMI programs in Flanders: Investigating lexical proficiency, conversational repair, and facework through authentic classroom data (2025 - 2029)

Projecten als doctoraatsonderzoeker

The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker (2019 - 2024)

Publicaties

Belangrijkste publicaties

EMI and its sociolinguistic entanglement with local languages : disciplinary differences in two engineering programs in Flemish higher education(2023)
- Alexander De Soete
The EMI content lecturer as a street-level bureaucrat: discretionary actions and coping mechanisms in micro-level language policy-as-produced(2023)
- Alexander De Soete
- Stef Slembrouck
'So, you’re speaking Dutch?' : an interdisciplinary analysis of language policy negotiation in the EMI classroom(2025)
- Alexander De Soete
English-medium instruction in international bio-science engineering programs in Vietnam : incentivization, support, and discretion in a context of academic consolidation(2025)
- Alexander De Soete
- Stef Slembrouck
‘For the Dutch-speaking students, I will translate it' : code-switching as discretionary transformation of EMI language policy(2025)
- Alexander De Soete

Meest recente publicaties

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Onderwijs

- English Linguistics: Sociolinguistics ("Multilingualism in Education" Module)