Griet Boone (°1982) is a Research Assistant at the German Section of the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication of Ghent University. In 2004, she obtained her Master´s Degree in Translation. She has taught German, Dutch and Spanish for many years. In 2016, she started her PhD on the influence of intercultural competence on L2 learners’ development of pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence in German. Her main research interests include second language acquisition, phraseology and intercultural communication.
