Researchers

Short bio

​Griet Boone completed her PhD on L2 learners’ phraseological development at Ghent University. Her primary research areas include second/foreign language acquisition and development (with a special focus on L2 German and formulaic language), study abroad, L2 pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, and professional communication.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Learner Corpus Research /Second Language Acquisition

Pedagogical linguistics/language learning for specific purposes

Research keywords

SLA, formulaic language, German (for specific purposes), individual learner variables

Short bio

​​Marilize Pretorius completed her PhD at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on framing and studying the development of English for academic/nursing purposes as the development of accommodative competence. She investigates how (generative) artificial intelligence can be used to facilitate ESL/EFL accommodative competence, as well as how its use impacts their use of English.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

AI-assisted language learning and development
Pedagogical linguistics/language learning for specific purposes

Research keywords

artificial intelligence, English for academic purposes, communication accomodation theory

Short bio

​Tom Smits, a Fulbright alumnus, is a Professor of German variational linguistics, and of English, German and CLIL teaching methodology, which he combines with an appointment as Chief Researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania). His research activities cover language variation as well as foreign language education and intercultural competences with students in/from the EU, Asia and Africa.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte
Sociale Wetenschappen

Department

Taalkunde
Antwerp School of Education

Expertise

Second Language Acquisition
Pedagogical linguistics

Research keywords

SLA, multilingualism in education

Short bio

​Jennifer Thewissen completed her PhD in English linguistics at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (UCLouvain). She specialises in the study of EFL/ESL learner accuracy in a variety of contexts and its interactions with L2 complexity. Her research also includes improved methodologies for the study of L2 accuracy as well as the impact of individual learner variables on L2 performance.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Learner Corpus Research /Second Language Acquisition
Pedagogical linguistics/language learning for specific purposes

Research keywords

​L2 accuracy, L2 complexity, learner corpus annotation, inter-rater reliability, individual learner variables

Short bio

​Nina Vandermeulen completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Antwerp and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University (Sweden). She now works as a lecturer in professional communication for the master Professional communication and Management. Her main research interests involve writing process research with keystroke logging, source-based writing, and feedback.

Faculty

Bedrijfswetenschappen en Economie

Department

Management

Expertise

Writing processes (keystroke logging)

Research keywords

writing process, keystroke logging, source-based writing, feedback

Short bio

​Carola Strobl is associate professor for Translation and Applied Linguistics at the Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies at University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has a teaching career at universities in Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Belgium. Her research is situated in the areas of foreign language learning and translation studies. She conducts corpus-based research of learner language and translated language, with a focus on cohesion-building strategies. Furthermore, she takes a special interest in second language writing and translation pedagogies, exploring the potential of online technologies in the learning process.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Toegepaste Taalkunde

Expertise

Learner Corpus Research /Second Language Acquisition

AI-assisted writing and translation pedagogy

Research keywords

L2 writing development, computer-assisted language learning, cohesion in learner language, translation pedagogy, CAF and functional adequacy

Short bio

​Sarah Schroyens is a PhD candidate at UCLouvain and UAntwerpen. Her research focuses on the acquisition of Dutch as a second language by French-speaking learners in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) contexts. Her work includes corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experiments, and foreign language teaching methods.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Second Language Acquisition/ Multilingual education

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Research keywords

L2 Dutch, psycholinguistics, multilingualism in education 

Short bio

​Lieve Vangehuchten is professor of Spanish as a second/foreign language for specific purposes. Her research interests are related to the description and analysis of Spanish for academic and professional purposes with theoretical (discourse and genre analysis) and with applied (L2 acquisition and pedagogy) objectives, e.g., regarding oral and written competence, terminology, sociocultural and cross/intercultural pragmatic dimensions. 

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Spanish for specific purposes

Second/foreign language acquisition

Research keywords

L2/Ln Spanish; SLA; LSP

Short bio

​Pedro Gras is an associate professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Antwerp. He holds a BA in Spanish Philology (2001) and a PhD in Spanish Linguistics (2011) from the University of Barcelona (Spain). He teaches courses on Spanish Language and Linguistics at the Bachelor and Master programs in Linguistics and Literature, mostly on syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse. He is also involved in the area of teaching Spanish as a foreign language as an author of teaching materials (Destino Erasmus 2, Clase de gramática, C de C1) as well as an instructor in several teacher training programs, in Belgium and abroad. He is a member of the research group Grammar and Pragmatics (GaP). His research focuses on the grammar-pragmatics interface from an interactional-constructional perspective. More recently, he is interested in the adquisition of discourse markers by learners of Spanish.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Pedagogical grammar 

Grammar/pragmatics

Second language acquisition of pragmatics

Research keywords

L2 Spanish; discourse markers

Short bio

​Iryna Bazhutkina is currently conducting her PhD research on the development of L2 German pragmatic competence, taking into account the role of context and individual variables. Her broader research interests include second/foreign language acquisition, language pedagogy, technology in language education, content and language integrated learning.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Second language acquisition

L2/intercultural pragmatics 

Research keywords

SLA; L2 pragmatic competence; L2 German; individual learner variables; computer-assisted language learning

Short bio

​​Sarah Bernolet is Associate Professor in Psycholinguistics and Dutch proficiency at the department of Linguistics of the University of Antwerp. She investigates syntactic processing in bilinguals, the development of L2 syntax and phonology, and writing processes in L1/L2/Ln using experimental methods.

Faculty

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Department

Taalkunde

Expertise

Learner Corpus Research /Second Language Acquisition

First language acquisition

Research keywords

Psycholinguistics; L1 & L2 syntax; bilingualism