Projects of faculty staff and postdoctoral researchers
Current projects:
2017- …
Title: "The acquisition of alternating morpho-syntactic constructions by English and Spanish L2 learners: the that/zero complementation, the dative and genitive alternation cases"
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ludovic De Cuypere, Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
PhD researcher(s): Carlos Andrés Figueroa Viloria
Current projects:
2018-2022
Title: “Lexical-Grammatical Complexity – A missing link in second language acquisition research”
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alex Housen ; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Magali Paquot (Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve)
PhD researcher(s): Rachel Rubin
2015-2019
Title: “Bridging the gap: Linking noticing and the implicit L2 acquisition of grammatical subregularities in a natural second language”
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alex Housen; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Aline Godfroid (Michigan State University)
PhD researcher(s): Eva Koch
Current projects:
2017-2020
Title: "When the voice doesn't speak to the mind: an articulographic investigation of feedback deficits in Childhood Apraxia of Speech "
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Philippe Paquier
Postdoc researcher: Dr. Stefanie Keulen
Current projects:
2018-2022
Title: “The effects of written corrective feedback on L2 case acquisition in the German prepositional phrase mediated by working memory capacity and procedural memory”
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katja Lochtman
PhD researcher: Jorik Fidler
2016-2018
Title: “Intercultural Pragmatic Competence and Awareness in Second Language Learners. A Case Study of L2 Learners of Chinese and Chinese L2 Learners of English and Spanish.”
Funding body: Confucius Institute Brussels
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ann Peeters, Co-Supervisors: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele, Prof. Dr. Katja Lochtman
Current projects:
2017-2020
Title: " When the voice doesn't speak to the mind: an articulographic investigation of feedback deficits in Childhood Apraxia of Speech "
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Philippe Paquier
Postdoc researcher: Dr. Stefanie Keulen
Current projects:
2018-2022
Title: “Promoting Early Multilingualism in Childhood and Childcare (ProEMC2)”
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys; co-supervisors: Prof. Dr. Orhan Agirdag (KU Leuven);
Prof. Dr. Michel Vandenbroeck (Ugent), Prof. Dr. Piet Van Avermaet (Ugent)
PhD researcher: Ily Hollebeke
2017-2021
Title: “A Comparative Study on Interpreters’ Performance when Speakers Pause”
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys
PhD researcher: Deng Weitian
2015-2019
Title: “Cognitive and linguistic effects of trilingual education in the Uyghur Region in China”
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katja Lochtman
PhD researcher: Ruilin Wu
2015-2019
Title: “Cognitive control in interpreting”
Funding body: Academisation funding Applied Linguistics VUB
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hélène Stengers
PhD researcher: Soudabeh Nour
Title: “Indigenous language education as a type of bilingual education: the case of Cameroon”
PhD researcher: Theodore Nzounkio Bakop
Current projects:
2018-2022
Title: “Analysis of nouns in L1 and L2 writing”
Funding body: China Scholarship Council-scholarship
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
PhD researcher: Yishan Goa
2018-2022
Title: “An Empirical Study on Chinese ESL Speakers' Discourse Competence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective”
Funding: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele, Prof. Dr. Jianwei Xu
PhD researcher: Hua Gu
2017-…
Title: “The acquisition of alternating morpho-syntactic constructions by English and Spanish L2 learners: the that/zero complementation, the dative and genitive alternation cases”
Funding body: Self-funded
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ludovic De Cuypere, Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
PhD researcher: Carlos Andrés Figueroa Viloria
2015-2019
Title: “ Los mecanismos referenciales en el discurso oral de aprendientes de español”
Funding body: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele, Prof. Dr. Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada)
PhD researcher: Kim Collewaert
Current projects:
2017-2021
Title: “Pluricentricity in language history. Building blocks for an integrated history of Dutch (1550-1850)”
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters, Prof. Dr. Marijke van der Wal (University Leiden); co-supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Vandenbussche, Dr. Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University)
PhD Researcher: Iris Van de Voorde
2014-2018
Title: “Forgotten voices from below. A sociolinguistic analysis of lower class correspondence in the Low Countries between 1780 and 1900.”
Funding: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Vandenbussche
PhD Researcher: Jill Puttaert
Current projects:
2017-2021
Title: “Pluricentricity in language history. Building blocks for an integrated history of Dutch (1550-1850)”
Funding body: Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters, Prof. Dr. Marijke van der Wal (University Leiden); co-supervisors: Dr. Wim Vandenbussche, Dr. Gijsbert Rutten (University Leiden)
PhD Researcher: Iris Van de Voorde
2017-2021
Title: “The influence of French on Southern Dutch in the 18th and 19th century: A case study in historical sociolinguistics”
Funding body: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters
PhD researcher: Charlotte Verheyden
2017-2021
Title: “Language planning of the Chinese diaspora in the multilingual context of Antwerp and Brussels”
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters
PhD researcher: Rui Guo
2017-2021
Title: “A study of language variation in discourse on terrorism in Chinese and Western newspapers”
Funding body: China Scholarship Council
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jelle Mast, co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters
PhD researcher: Jingxuan Guo
2016-2020
Title: “Linguistic minorities in the multilingual context of Brussels: A case study of the Chinese community”
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters
PhD candidate: Xiangyun Li
2014-2018
Title: “Forgotten voices from below. A sociolinguistic analysis of lower class correspondence in the Low
Countries between 1780 and 1900.”
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Vandenbussche
PhD researcher: Jill Puttaert
“Wikiscripta Neerlandica II. Burgerwetenschap als breekijzer voor de ontsluiting en digitalisering
van talig erfgoed uit Noord en Zuid (1700-1900)”
Citizen science project funded by ANV and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters (VUB)
Team: Prof. Dr. Marijke van der Wal (Leiden University), Dr. Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University),
Prof. Dr. Wim Vandenbussche (VUB), Jill Puttaert (VUB), Iris Van de Voorde (VUB),
Heleen Willemsen (student-assistant)
PhD projects
Theodore Nzounkio Bakop
Theodore.Nzounkio.Bakop@vub.be
PhD thesis topic: “Multilingualism in Cameroon: The Adoption of CLIL Approach to foster the promotion of National Languages alongside Official Languages in the educational systems”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katja Lochtman
PhD thesis topic: “Referential mechanisms in L1 Dutch-L2 Spanish oral discourse: a corpus study”
Link to webpage: Researchgate page of Kim Collewaert
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele (VUB); co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Cristóbal Lozano Pozo (Universidad de Granada)
2015-2019
Funding body: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BAAP statute)
PhD thesis topic: “An Empirical Study on Chinese ESL Speakers' Discourse Competence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele, Prof. Dr. Jianwei Xu
2018-2022
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
PhD thesis topic: “Languages in contact, dialects in contact: The Chinese diaspora in multilingual Antwerp and Brussels”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters
2017-2021
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
PhD thesis topic: “A corpus-based study of the structure of noun phrase in new varieties of English: the case of Nigerian English”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jelle Mast, co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters
2017-2021
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
PhD thesis topic: “Bridging the gap: Linking noticing and the implicit L2 acquisition of grammatical subregularities in a natural second language”
Link to webpage: Researchgate page of Eva Koch
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alex Housen (VUB); co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Aline Godfroid (Michigan State University)
2015-2019
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
PhD thesis topic: “Cognitive control in interpreting”
Link to webpage: Researchgate page of Soudebah Nour
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys, Prof. Dr. Hélène Stengers (co-supervisor)
2015-2019
Funding Body: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PhD thesis topic: “First language influences on the acquisition of grammatical gender in French as a second language”
Link to webpage: Researchgate page of Tatiana Pieters
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marie-Eve Michot; co-supervisors: Prof. em. Michel Pierrard, Prof. Dr. Dan Van Raemdonck (ULB)
2015-2019
Funding body: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PhD thesis topic: Forgotten voices from below. A sociolinguistic analysis of lower class correspondence in the Low Countries between 1780 and 1815.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters (VUB); co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Vandenbussche (VUB)
2014-2018
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
PhD thesis topic: “Biliteracy development in L1 (Arabic) and L2 (English) with special reference to word recognition and spelling skills”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katja Lochtman; co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys
2015-…
PhD thesis topic: “Pragmatic competence in second language learners: the analysis of the speech act of refusal in L2 Spanish”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
2018-…
PhD thesis topic: “Pluricentricity in language history. Building blocks for an integrated history of Dutch (1550-1850)”
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rik Vosters (VUB), Prof. Dr. Marijke van der Wal (Leiden University); co-supervisors: Prof. dr. Wim Vandenbussche (VUB); dr. Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University)
2017-2021
Funding body: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
PhD thesis topic: “The effectiveness of Uyghur-Chinese bilingual education on linguistic and cognitive development”
Link to webpage: C4N webpage
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Esli Struys (VUB); co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Katja Lochtman (VUB)
2015-2019
Funding body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Carlos Andres Figueroa Viloria
Carlos.Andres.Figueroa.Viloria@vub.be
PhD thesis topic: “The acquisition of alternating morpho-syntactic constructions by English and Spanish L2 learners:
the that/zero complementation, the dative and genitive alternation cases.”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ludovic De Cuypere, Prof. Dr. An Vande Casteele
2017- …