Teaching
My teaching is within the Masters in Linguistics program. It mainly concerns Semantics and Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Academic Writing.
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)
- Alain Ngoy N’dombe : Bible language problems and users' attitude : Theory, Analysis and Assessment, University of Lubumbashi (Defended July 2010)
- Susanne Hempel: A qualitative analysis of organisational metadiscourse markers in L1 and L2
- Anne Küppers (co-promotion with Anne Catherine Simon): The linguistic impact of putting the news online
- Deniz Uygur: Emerging discourse markers in the right periphery
- Federica Ciabarri: Discourse markers in final position: A contrastive analysis of English, Italian and Hungarian.
Academic duties at UCLouvain
- Head of the Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C) [2009 - at present]
- Head of the Programs in Linguistics (LING) [2003 - 2010]
- 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]
Editorial work and expertise
- 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 editorial board for Nederlandse Taalkunde (2002-2005)
- General editor with Sylviane Granger of the book series "Corpora and Language in Use"
Societies
