Research interests
- Language ideologies of young mobile, highly educated speakers
Projects: „Learning standard languages in a globalizing Europe“ & “Mobility trajectories and multilingualism”
- Attitudes towards English in Higher Education in Flanders
Project: Language policy and practice in higher education in Flanders, the Netherlands, Aruba and South Africa (initiated by the Dutch Language Union)
- Language use and language contact in 16th and 17th centuries foreign language textbooks
Project: Greetings from the past: on the use of interjections in foreign language textbooks from Early Modern Flanders (with Miriam Bouzouita)
- Discursive construction of identity in fitness communities
Case study: Identity construction among group fitness instructors in Austria (with Karin Andersson)
- Linguistic and social hierarchies from a comparative European perspective
Project: Processes of language making in contexts of social hierarchies (with Philipp Krämer, Leena Kolehmainen & Angela Bartens)
