Degrees

Current position:

English language teaching assistant (100%)

Member of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

PhD under the supervision of Professor Sylviane Granger, i.e. Thewissen J. (forthcoming 2011) Accuracy across L1 backgrounds and proficiency levels: Insights from an error-tagged EFL learner corpus. Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Previous position (2004-2005):

English language and linguistics teaching assistant (50%)

German language teaching assistant (50%)

Courses

I teach on the following courses:

GERM 1121 (1st year students): Spoken and listening English skills

GERM 1323 (2nd year students): English linguistics: phonology and morphology

GERM 1521 (3rd year students): Advanced English productive skills

GERM 1522 (3rd year students): Advanced English receptive skills

GERM 2720 (MASTER level): English for Academic Puroposes (EAP)

Previous years:

GERM 1122: Reading and writing skills in English

German as a foreign language and German grammar

My research interests are:

• Learner corpus annotation (with particular emphasis on error tagging)
• Learner-corpus-based error analysis, e.g. comparison of error profiles from learners with different L1s and at different proficiency levels
• Corpus-based error counting methods
• Methods for language proficiency assessment
• Links between error-tagged learner corpora and the Common European Framework for Reference descriptors: further specification of the linguistic competence descriptors in terms of 'cannot do's"

Monographie

• Dagneaux Estelle, Denness Sharon, Granger Sylviane, Meunier Fanny, Neff JoAnne, Thewissen Jennifer, Error Tagging Manual Version 1.3., Louvain-La-Neuve : Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, 2008 (Published)
  
• Dagneaux Estelle, Granger Sylviane, Meunier Fanny, Thewissen Jennifer, Denness Sharon, Neff JoAnne, Error Tagging Manual Version 1.2., Louvain-La-Neuve : Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, 2005 (Published)
  



Communication à colloque à diffusion restreinte

• Lefer Marie-Aude, Thewissen Jennifer, Orthographic and morphological errors in learner writing. Automatic and manual annotation methods: a match made in heaven?, 2007 ()
  
• Thewissen Jennifer, Bestgen Yves, Granger Sylviane, Using error-tagged learner corpora to create English-specific CEF descriptors, 2006 ()
  
• Granger Sylviane, Thewissen Jennifer, Towards a reconciliation of a Can Do and Can't Do approach to language assessment, 2005 ()
  
• Granger Sylviane, Thewissen Jennifer, The contribution of error-tagged learner corpora to the assessment of language proficiency. Evidence from the International Corpus of Learner English, 2005 ()
  



Communication à un colloque publiés dans des actes parus comme monographie

• Bestgen Yves, Lories Guy, Thewissen Jennifer, Using latent semantic analysis to measure coherence in essays by foreign language learners?, Rome : LED, 2010 (Circulated)
  Lien: http://www.psor.ucl.ac.be/personal/yb/Doc/JADT10BLT.pdf
• Thewissen Jennifer, The phraseological errors of French-, German-, and Spanish speaking EFL learners: Evidence from an error-tagged learner corpus, 2008 (Published)
  Lien: http://sites.uclouvain.be/cecl/archives/THEWISSEN_2008_TaLC.pdf

Language testing research stay (University of Lancaster, England, 25 July-13 August 2005):

Introduction to language testing methods, theoretical background and concepts, statistical methods, language testing item development.

Content development for pedagogical CD-ROM:

Development of the English phonetics section on the CD-ROM Parole & Langue: Parcours et exerices de Linguistique (UCL Presses unversitaires de Louvain). The CD-ROM was developed for use within the context of the second-year English linguistics course.

I gave several teacher training sessions in Belgium for high school teachers:

17 November 2006

Institut Notre-Dame D2 - D3, Rue Joseph Netzer 21 à 6700 Arlon, Belgium

Topic: Using authentic material for immersion in the classroom

21 January 2008

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Topic: How to promote the oral component in the classroom?

20 January 2009

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Topic: How to promote the oral component in the classroom?

Biography

Degrees

Current position:

English language teaching assistant (100%)

Member of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

PhD under the supervision of Professor Sylviane Granger, i.e. Thewissen J. (forthcoming 2011) Accuracy across L1 backgrounds and proficiency levels: Insights from an error-tagged EFL learner corpus. Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Previous position (2004-2005):

English language and linguistics teaching assistant (50%)

German language teaching assistant (50%)

Teaching

Courses

I teach on the following courses:

GERM 1121 (1st year students): Spoken and listening English skills

GERM 1323 (2nd year students): English linguistics: phonology and morphology

GERM 1521 (3rd year students): Advanced English productive skills

GERM 1522 (3rd year students): Advanced English receptive skills

GERM 2720 (MASTER level): English for Academic Puroposes (EAP)

Previous years:

GERM 1122: Reading and writing skills in English

German as a foreign language and German grammar

Research

My research interests are:

• Learner corpus annotation (with particular emphasis on error tagging)
• Learner-corpus-based error analysis, e.g. comparison of error profiles from learners with different L1s and at different proficiency levels
• Corpus-based error counting methods
• Methods for language proficiency assessment
• Links between error-tagged learner corpora and the Common European Framework for Reference descriptors: further specification of the linguistic competence descriptors in terms of 'cannot do's"

Additional information

Language testing research stay (University of Lancaster, England, 25 July-13 August 2005):

Introduction to language testing methods, theoretical background and concepts, statistical methods, language testing item development.

Content development for pedagogical CD-ROM:

Development of the English phonetics section on the CD-ROM Parole & Langue: Parcours et exerices de Linguistique (UCL Presses unversitaires de Louvain). The CD-ROM was developed for use within the context of the second-year English linguistics course.

I gave several teacher training sessions in Belgium for high school teachers:

17 November 2006

Institut Notre-Dame D2 - D3, Rue Joseph Netzer 21 à 6700 Arlon, Belgium

Topic: Using authentic material for immersion in the classroom

21 January 2008

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Topic: How to promote the oral component in the classroom?

20 January 2009

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Topic: How to promote the oral component in the classroom?

Publications