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Projet Transversal DRC - Anglais Académique - phase 3.
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This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand VLIR. UA provides VLIR research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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Academic English: extension, stabilization and integration (2013-2015).
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This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand VLIR. UA provides VLIR research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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Understandable Dutch: the accessibility of the language of the news for different audiences.
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This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other VRT. UA provides VRT research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Vandekerckhove Reinhild
- Co-promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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Building language confidence (in cooperation with the Impulse Fund for Migration Policy).
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This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en racismebestrijding . UA provides Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en racismebestrijding research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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L'anglais langue académique: au service de l'enseignement scientifique: organisation d'un système de formation à grande capacité.
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Le projet adaptera la formation actuelle de l'université FCK aux nouvelles demandes dans le domaine de maitrise de langue académique. A partir d'une analyse avancée des besoins et en adaptant le matériel didactique pour l'anglais académique disponible aussi bien a Kinshasa qu'à l'Université d'Anvers le présent projet vise former des enseignants et introduire un système de formation considérablement plus performant et intensif. Les étudiants devront atteindre les niveaux de maitrise qui donnent accès aux examens intemationaux et aux qualifications internationales reconnues pour les groupes cibles (étudiants de première et seconde année, et étudiants envisageant formation continuée â l'étranger). Un effet multiplicateur est envisagé plus long terme, par l'extension du modèle aussi bien vers les autres universités que vers l'enseignement secondaire.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Colpaert Jozef
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Language diversity initiatives and higher education.
Project MIDP IV (Multilingual Information and informatics Development) : Multilingualism from below.
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In standard accounts of language policy and language planning, language users are too often viewed as the 'passive receivers' of linguistic decisions taken at the highest levels of state organization. In defiance of this tendency, the MIDP IV project wants to accentuate that subalternity involves, rather than excludes, agency. Through their everyday language practices and their discursive perceptions and interpretations of linguistic realities, those who are supposed to 'live' the language policies never submissively 'implement' them, but, appropriating them, steer them in novel, unforeseen directions. It is these dialectic processes of interaction between what is designed from above and how it is responded to from below which give shape to societies' overall patterns of multilingualism. This is the focus of the MIDP IV-fieldwork in the Xhariep (Free State Province, South Africa) and also the focus of the publication in which this research and other international research on the topic is reported on.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Vandekerckhove Reinhild
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Box on wheels for students and entrepreneurs.
Project MIDP III (Multilingual Information and informatics Development) : Multilingualism and exclusion.
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Whether globalisation, localisation and regionalisation processes of the last decades have led to more linguistic diversity or not, is a matter of on-going dispute – one reason being the changeable, language-ideological ways in which language practice is categorised and essentialised into countable linguistic units. In contrast, it is less controversial that they have led to an increased visibility and awareness of linguistic diversity, as well as to a growing sensitivity and sensibility towards this diversity – in short, to a growing number (and a wider range) of meaning-ascribing discourses surrounding multilingualism. The research project on Multilingualism and exclusion starts from the hypothesis that such discourses do not invariably reflect on, or give rise to, realities of societal integration and emancipation. In practice, they often follow, and are followed by, the mechanisms and effects of exclusion at different levels of society. The research project and the book which results from the project aims at critical analyses of multilingual communities (with special focus on South Africa and the Free State province) and the way they challenge language planners, of the actual management of multilingualism and the individual language user's experience and especially of 'tools' that have been mobilised to effectuate exclusion, forced monolingualism being an obvious one.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Vandekerckhove Reinhild
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An analysis of interactional processes during the Guguletu Seven hearings of the South African TRC, with special reference to the entextualization of social debates and divisions.
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This project seeks to explicitate the communicative, interactional processes during the TRC hearings. The starting point is the observation that South Africa is a split, fragmented society, mainly because of what it inherited from the apartheid years but also because of increasing economic divisions. Our analysis seeks to elucidate (1) how/whether this fragmentation is articulated during the TRC hearings and (2) to what extent the TRC is able to bridge these divisions, how these attempts are undertaken, etc.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Daems Frans
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A discourse oriented analysis of the interpreting process at the TRC hearings with special reference to the role of institutional variation, language differences and the intercultural context.
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The present project investigates the interactional language processes that occured during the TRC hearings. As a matter of fact interpreting processes do not occur in isolation. By consequence, the focus is on the rle of institutional discourse, language variation, and the linguistic expression of power in the hearings and interpreting activities of the TRC. In this way the project is to shed light on the way a specific conventional setting like the TRC hearings' operated. It will show the impact of the sociolinguistic and intercultural context. And it will clarify the requirements which training of interpreters should meet. The project is intended to deepen insight in hidden aspects of the interaction itself which bear heavily on its success, such as characteristics of the genre, the power balance and the use that is made of 'culture' in the framework of the interaction.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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Supporting the implementation of a policy of additive biliguism in South-African schools.
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The project supports the concrete implementation of a new policy of multilingualism in South African schools in collaboration with PRAESA (UCT) which is already testing multilingual models in a number of schools. The project responds to a request from the South African Minister of Education. The Flemish partners will join PRAESA to develop concrete language policy strategies with regard to language status planning, the development of multilingual programs for intercultural communication and early biliteracyResearcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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Co-operative communicative competence: an empirical study of meaning negotiation in intercultural negotiations
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This research investigates processes of meaning generation in interaction. The empirical case consists of talks between Flemish and American students (simulations of business negotiations). The materials are studied from the angle of linguistic pragmatics and with methods from conversation analysis, anthropology and socioliguisitcs. Empirical findings should lead to refinement and adjustment of the pragmatic frame of interpretation for a systematic understanding of data.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Braecke Chris
- Co-promoter: Verschueren Jef
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Research into the vocabulary of Dutch: Semantic fields and language registers.
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The project covers a number of semantic fields in Dutch in view of contrastive description (comparison with corresponding fields in Polish). The focus is on lexical items and idiomatic expressions, but also on the pragmatics of the interaction which is associated with these fields. The project is to produce comparative lists as well as descriptive studies of linguisitic-pragmatic features.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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System for adequate coding and conversion of language material for language teaching purposes
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In view of the use of (audio-visual) language material in language courses, STACCATO is aimed at the development of linguistically and pedagogically adequate coding system. The latter system is to be implemented as a software aid for librarians in (audio-visual) libraries and as a search programme for language teachers.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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How cognitive is cognitive linlinguistics? An experimental psycho- and neurolinguistic approach to lexico-semantic analyses.
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The purpose of the research is to study the way language users process and represent (in their mental lexicon) the meanings of polysemous and ambiguous words. Two research disciplines are related to each other in this line of research: cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics.Different experimental techniques 'especially eye movement registration and reaction time paradigms) are used to address the question whether polysemy and homonymy are mentally represented according to the same principles of representation.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Daems Frans
- Co-promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Frisson Steven
- Co-promoter: Sandra Dominiek
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Development of a writing instruction for city employees.
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Forms constitute the backbone of the interaction between citizens and local government. The project is aimed at increasing forms efficiency through the development of an adequate and useful writing instruction to be used by city employees.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
- Co-promoter: Van Waes Luuk
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System for adequate coding and conversion of language material for language teaching purposes.
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In view of the use of (audio-visual) language material in language courses, STACCATO is aimed at the development of a linguistically and pedagogically adequate coding system. The latter system is to be implemented as a software aid for librarians in (audio-visual) libraries and as search programme for language teachers.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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Linguistic pragmatics and foreign language learning
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This project is focused on the study of language use and (adult) language acquisition. In the area of language use the objectives are to clarify the relation between the functions of language and the linguistic forms that are used. In the area of language acquisition the centre of interest is the psycholinguistic validity of lexical semantic networks in cognitive grammar for the purposes of foreign language acquisition and foreign language teaching.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Cuvelier Pol
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