Academic activities

Teaching

My teaching is within the Masters in Linguistics program. I am currently in charge of:

Former teaching included:

  • Histoire de la linguistique
  • Inleiding tot de psycholinguïstiek
  • Werkcollege Nederlandse Taalkunde: Contrastieve analyse van idiomatische uitingen in het Nederalnds en het Frans
  • Séminaire de psycholinguistique appliquée
  • DEA en Sciences du langage: Théories linguistiques contemporaines (doctoral program)
  • DEA en Sciences du langage : Analyse du discours (doctoral program)
  • Werkcollege “Tekststructuur, tekstbegrip en lezerskennis” (Utrecht University with Ted Sanders)

PhD supervision

  • Julien Perrez: Connectieven, Tekstbegrip en Vreemde-taalverwerving. Een studie van de impact van causale en contrastieve connectieven op het begrijpen van teksten in het Nederlands als vreemde taal (Defended 2 November 2006)
  • Susanne Hempel: A qualitative analysis of organisational metadiscourse markers in L1 and L2
  • Iuliana Isac (co-promotion avec Prof. Francine Thyrion): Le fonctionnement des connecteurs persuasifs dans le discours politique.
  • Alain Ngoy N’dombe : Bible language problems and users' attitude : Theory, Analysis and Assessment
  • Anne Küppers: The linguistic impact of putting the news online

Academic duties at UCLouvain

  • Head of the Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C) [2008 - at present]
  • Head of the Programs in Linguistics (LING) [2003 - at present]
  • Présidente de la Commission doctorale du domaine "Langues et Lettres" [2005-2009]
  • Departmental coordinator for the Erasmus exchanges [2003-2008]
  • Head of the doctoral program in Linguistics [2003-2007]
  • Member of the Committee for International relations of the faculty [2003-2008]

Academic duties outside UCLouvain

  • Member of the FWO-Vlaanderen expert committee "Taal en Letteren" [2007 - at present]
  • Member of the scientific board for the online-journal « DISCOURS » (2008 - at present)
  • Member of the scientific board for the online-journal « CogniTextes » (2008 - at present)
  • Member of the Advisory board for Functions of language (2000-2003)
  • Member of the board for Nederlandse Taalkunde (2002-2005)
  • Regular reviewing for Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Lexicography, Journal of Applied Linguistics, Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistic, Journal of Cognitive Linguistics.

Societies

 

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