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Mme Samantha Laporte

SSH/FIAL - Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
SSH/ILC - Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)

Address
  FIAL - Place Blaise Pascal 1 bte L3.03.33 à 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
E-mail
 
FIAL
  Phone : 010 47 49 48




Degrees

year

degree title

institution

2011Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité approfondieUniversité catholique de Louvain
2009           

Bachelier en langues et littératures
modernes, orientation germaniques     

Facultés Universitaires
Saint-Louis


Current position (2011 - ):
PhD student and teaching assistant in English language and linguistics

PhD project: Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )

Member of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL)

Phd project: 'Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes: a Corpus-based Approach' (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin)

My research interests are:

  • New Englishes and 'Angloversals', i.e. their shared innovative features 
  • New Englishes and Learner Englishes, the creativity they display and how they relate to each other
  • Second Language Acquisition, in particular the interplay between intra- and interlingual factors
  • Corpus linguistics and the use of corpora in SLA theory
  • Construction Grammar and its explanatory power in terms of language variation and change
  • Lexico-grammar, with particular emphasis on verb complementation
  • The link between the following approaches: Construction Grammar, Pattern Grammar and Corpus Pattern Analysis
2012
Article de périodique (Journal article)
  • Laporte, Samantha. Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the making. In: English Text Construction, Vol. 5, no. 2, p. 265-292 (2012). http://hdl.handle.net/2078/115150

    • 2011
    Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper)
  • Laporte, Samantha. High-frequency Verbs across World and Learner Englishes. 17th annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) (Monash University, Melbourne, Australie, du 23/11/2011 au 25/11/2011). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110142

  • Laporte, Samantha. Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. Learner Corpus Research 2011 (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, du 15/09/2011 au 17/09/2011). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110143

    • Awards:

    • BAAHE Thesis Award 2011
      Biannual award of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education for best MA thesis in 'Linguistics and Translation Studies'.
      Title of thesis: Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. A comparative study of the high-frequency verb make across ESL and EFL (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )


    Biography

    Degrees

    year

    degree title

    institution

    2011Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité approfondieUniversité catholique de Louvain
    2009           

    Bachelier en langues et littératures
    modernes, orientation germaniques     

    		Facultés Universitaires
    Saint-Louis


    Current position (2011 - ):
    PhD student and teaching assistant in English language and linguistics

    PhD project: Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )

    Teaching

    Academic Year 2011-2012 - teaching assistant on the following courses:

    Research

    Member of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL)

    Phd project: 'Verb Complementation Patterns across New Englishes: a Corpus-based Approach' (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin)

    My research interests are:

    • New Englishes and 'Angloversals', i.e. their shared innovative features 
    • New Englishes and Learner Englishes, the creativity they display and how they relate to each other
    • Second Language Acquisition, in particular the interplay between intra- and interlingual factors
    • Corpus linguistics and the use of corpora in SLA theory
    • Construction Grammar and its explanatory power in terms of language variation and change
    • Lexico-grammar, with particular emphasis on verb complementation
    • The link between the following approaches: Construction Grammar, Pattern Grammar and Corpus Pattern Analysis

    Other

    Awards:

    • BAAHE Thesis Award 2011
      Biannual award of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education for best MA thesis in 'Linguistics and Translation Studies'.
      Title of thesis: Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. A comparative study of the high-frequency verb make across ESL and EFL (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin )


    Publications

    2012
    Article de périodique (Journal article)
  • Laporte, Samantha. Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the making. In: English Text Construction, Vol. 5, no. 2, p. 265-292 (2012). http://hdl.handle.net/2078/115150

    • 2011
    Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper)
  • Laporte, Samantha. High-frequency Verbs across World and Learner Englishes. 17th annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) (Monash University, Melbourne, Australie, du 23/11/2011 au 25/11/2011). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110142

  • Laporte, Samantha. Mind the Gap! Bridge between World Englishes and Learner Englishes in the Making. Learner Corpus Research 2011 (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, du 15/09/2011 au 17/09/2011). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/110143


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