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Sylvie De Cock

Professeure

SSH/FIAL Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres (FIAL)

SSH/FIAL/ELAL Ecole de langues et lettres (ELAL)

SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)

SSH/ILC/PLIN Pôle de recherche en linguistique (PLIN)

2025
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S., & Thewissen, J. (2025). Introducing AMBER, the Apprentice Multiple Business GEnRes corpus. PLIN Linguistic Day 2025, UCLouvain.


De Cock, S., Thewissen, J., & et al. (2025). Launching the Apprentice Multiple Business GEnRes (AMBER) corpus. 2nd edition of the Learner Language Research Day, Universiteit Antwerpen.


De Cock, S., Gilquin, G., & Granger, S. (2025). A cross-task investigation of lexical bundles in L2 speech. Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR) conference, Université catholique de Louvain.


De Cock, S. (2025). Raising business communication students’ awareness of preferred ways of writing things in press releases with DDL activities. ABC Regional Conference, NHH Bergen (Norvège).


De Cock, S., & Thewissen, J. (2025). In business with the Apprentice Multiple Business GEnRes (AMBER) corpus. ABC Regional Conference, NHH Bergen (Norvège).


De Cock, S., Egbert, J., Gilquin, G., Granger, S., Grixoni, F., Holmberg, A. J., Jadoulle, P., Larsson, T., & Paquot, M. (2025). The STAR corpus: Student speech and writing across registers. Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR) conference, Université catholique de Louvain.


2024
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S., De Meyere, D., Degand, E., François, T., Gilquin, G., Granger, S., Huang, D., Lefer, M.-A., Naets, H., Paquot, M., Van Goethem, K., Watrin, P., & Souza Wilkens, R. (2024). CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora. Learner Corpus Research 2024, University of Tartu, Estonia.


De Cock, S., & Thewissen, J. (2024). Getting down to business with the Apprentice Multiple Business GEnRes (AMBER) corpus. Learner Corpus Research Conference, University of Tartu (Estonie).


2023
Article de journal

De Cock, S. (2023). Review of Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction. The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. Submitted. (Original work published 2023)


De Cock, S. (2023). Review of William J. Crawford (ed.), Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction. The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 9(2), 283-288. (Original work published 2023)


2022
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2022). Preferred ways of writing things in press releases. Boosting business communication teaching and learning material with DDL activities. Teaching and Language Corpora Conference - TaLC 2022, University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College.


De Cock, S. (2022). Defying the Q&A format in interviews? Exploring interrogatives in learner interviewee speech. BAAHE 2022, ULiège.


De Cock, S. (2022). Do you love me: Interrogatives in learner speech in LINDSEI and in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference 2022, Padova (Italie).


Baudoin, N., De Cock, S., Degrave, P., Hamaide, B., Hiligsmann, P., März, V., & Van Drooghenbroeck, S. (2022). English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) : diversité des conceptions et des pratiques des enseignants universitaires. Congrès international d’Actualité de la Recherche en Éducation et en Formation (AREF), Lausanne.


Rapport

Hiligsmann, P., Baudoin, N., De Cock, S., Degrave, P., Hamaide, B., März, V., & Hiligsmann, P. (2022). Apprentissage et enseignement multilingues dans l’enseignement supérieur en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Philippe Hiligsmann.


2021
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2021). Uncovering the typical phraseology of press releases and business news reports using a lexical bundle approach. EUROPHRAS 2021, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.


De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2021). Typical features of press releases vs business news reports in the lexical bundle spotlight. Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021, University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College.


Article de journal

De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2021). Press releases vs business news: A lexical bundle approach. Text & Talk : an interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies, 41(5-6), 691-713. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0040 (Original work published 2021)


De Cock, S. (2021). Review of Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.). Learner corpora and language teaching (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 92). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2019. iv+267 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 0236 9. ICAME Journal, 45(1), 215-222. https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0008 (Original work published 2021)


2019
Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2019). Foreign words in EFL learner interviewee speech: lending learners a productive fluency helping hand? In Degand, L., Gilquin, G., Meurant, L. & Simon A-C (ed.), Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties. Presses universitaires de Louvain.


2017
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2017). Students’ use of English during internships in the Brussels area – a pilot study. English Spoken: The position of English in Brussels, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles.


De Cock, S. (2017). Fluency and the use of foreign words in interviews with EFL learners. International Conference Fluency & Disfluency across Langages and Language Varieties, Université catholique de Louvain.


De Cock, S. (2017). ‘Speaking in tongues’: EFL learners’ use of ‘foreign words’ in informal interviews. LCR 2017, Bolzano (Italy).


Lucaccini, E., & De Cock, S. (2017). Language and Business Engineering Students’ Attitudes to English as a Lingua Franca in Wallonia. GABC2017, University of Antwerp.


Chapitre de livre

Boulton, A., & De Cock, S. (2017). Dictionaries as aids for language learning. In P Hanks & G.-M. de Schryver (eds.) (ed.), International handbook of lexis and lexicography. Springer.


Boulton Alex, & De Cock, S. (2017). Dictionaries as aids for language learning. In P. Hanks & G-M de Schryver (ed.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_25-1.


2016
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2016). ‘Are you going to ask me a question?’ The discourse/pragmatic functions of interrogatives in learner interviewee speech. ESSE2016, Galway.


2015
Papier de conférence

Dumont, A., De Cock, S., Gilquin, G., & Granger, S. (2015). The French component of LINDSEI. LINDSEI workshop on the POS-tagging of spoken interlanguage, Nijmegen.


De Cock, S. (2015). Involvement profiles in interviews with native speakers and EFL learners: a corpus-based analysis. Third learner corpus research conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen.


De Cock, S. (2015). An exploration of the use of foreign words in interviews with EFL learners: a(n) (effective) communication strategy? Third Learner Corpus Research Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen.


2014
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2014). Investigating typical features of spoken interactions in the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI). Attitudinal stance in the spotlight. Corpus Linguistics Group, University of Oslo.


De Cock, S. (2014). ‘What else did we do’. Interrogatives in (learner) interviewee speech. ICAME35, University of Nottingham (Great Britain).


Article de journal

De Cock, S., & Tyne, H. (2014). Corpus d’apprenants et acquisition des langues. Recherches en Didactique des Langues et Cultures : les Cahiers de l’acedle, 11(1), 137-167. (Original work published 2014)


2013
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2013). Que nous montrent les corpus d’apprenants en termes de développement langagier? Notions en Questions: Corpus, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France).


De Cock, S. (2013). Key skills and competencies in internship evaluation sheets. Global Advances in Business Communication - 5th Tricontinental Conference, Universiteit Antwerpen.


Chapitre de livre

Gilquin, G., & De Cock, S. (2013). Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora: Setting the scene. In Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Sylvie De Cock (ed.), Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora (pp. 1-32). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16.2.01gil


De Cock, S., & Goossens, D. (2013). Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same? In Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg (ed.), Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson (p. p. 139-156). John Benjamins.


Monographie

Gilquin, G., & De Cock, S. (2013). Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.52


2012
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S., & Goossens, D. (2012). The treatment of quantity approximation in reference grammars and business English textbooks. TaLC10, Warsaw.


De Cock, S. (2012). Evaluative sentential relative clauses in native and learner speech and a corpus of textbook materials. TALC 2012 - 10th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, Warsaw.


De Cock, S. (2012). Intercultural communication in general business English textbooks. 11th European Conference of the Association of Business Communication (ABC Europe), Nijmegen, Netherland.


Chapitre de livre

Goossens, D., & De Cock, S. (2012). Around Numbers: Combinations of Approximators and Numbers in Business News Reporting and in Academic Business English. In P. Heynderickx, S. Dieltjens, G. Jacobs, P. Gillaerts and E. de Groot. (ed.), The Language Factor in International Business. Peter Lang.


2011
Article de journal

Gilquin, G., & De Cock, S. (2011). Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora : Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16.2. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 16(2), 158 pp. (Original work published 2011)


Gilquin, G., & De Cock, S. (2011). Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora: Setting the scene. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 16(2), 141-172. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16.2.01gil (Original work published 2011)


Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2011). Contracted forms in LINDSEI and LOCNEC. 20 years of Learner Corpus Research: looking back, moving ahead, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).


De Cock, S., & Goossens, D. (2011). Approximating devices in English and French business news reporting: more or less the same? International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) 31, Oslo.


Chapitre de livre

Gilquin, G., Meunier, F., De Cock, S., & Paquot, M. (2011). Putting Corpora to good uses: A guided tour. In Meunier F.; Gilquin G.; Paquot M. (ed.), A Taste for Corpora. In Honour of Sylviane Granger (pp. 1-6). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.45.04coc


De Cock, S. (2011). Preferred patterns of use of positive and negative evaluative adjectives in native and learner speech: an ELT perspective. In Frankenberg-Garcia, A. (ed.), New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning. (p. p. 198-212). Continuum.


Monographie

Meunier, F., De Cock, S., Gilquin, G., & Paquot, M. (2011). A Taste for Corpora. In Honour of Sylviane Granger. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.45


2010
Monographie

Gilquin, G., De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2010). The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Handbook and CD-ROM. Presses universitaires de Louvain.


Papier de conférence

Goossens, D., De Cock, S., & Hiligsmann, P. (2010). Quantification and approximation in business language. A contrastive approach (Dutch, English, French). Joint 10th Association for Business Communication (ABC) Europe convention and 2nd Global Advances in Business Communication (GABC) conference, Lessius University College, Antwerp.


Goossens, D., De Cock, S., & Hiligsmann, P. (2010). Around numbers: Collocational patterns involving numbers in Business English. Combinations of numbers and approximators. Joint 10th Association for Business Communication (ABC) Europe convention and 2nd Global Advances in Business Communication (GABC) conference, Lessius University College, Antwerp.


De Cock, S., & Hiligsmann, P. (2010). Master in multilingual communication. Looking back, looking ahead. Languages in Business Education, University College Brussels (Belgium).


Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2010). Spoken learner corpora and EFL teaching. In Campoy, M.C. (ed.), Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (pp. 123-137). Continuum.


De Cock, S., & Paquot, M. (2010). The monolingual learners’ dictionary as a productive tool: the contribution of learner corpora. In Campoy M. C.; Belles-Fortuno B.; Gea-Valor M.-L. (ed.), Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (pp. 195-204). Continuum.


2009
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S., & Gilquin, G. (2009). Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora. Setting the scene. Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora workshop (27/05/2009), 30th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Lancaster University (UK).


De Cock, S., Gilquin, G., & Granger, S. (2009). Introducing LINDSEI, ICLE’s talkative sister. 30th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Lancaster University (UK).


2008
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2008). And yeah, it was really good! Positive stance in native and learner speech. Spoken Learner Corpus Colloquium, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).


De Cock, S. (2008). Positive and negative evaluation in native and learner speech. Adjectives in the spotlight. In Frankenberg-Garcia, A. et al. (ed.), 8th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TALC 2008) (pp. 106-110). Associação de Estudos de Investigação Científica do ISLA-Lisboa.


De Cock, S. (2008). To contract or not to contract: Contracted forms in native and learner speech and writing. BAAHE Conference 2008. From Theory to Application (and back again), Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur (Belgium).


2007
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2007). Spoken learner corpora and EFL teaching. In Campoy, M.C. (ed.), Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (p. p. 123-137). Continuum.


De Cock, S., & Paquot, M. (2007). The monolingual learners’ dictionary as a productive tool: the contribution of learner corpora. In Campoy M.C. (ed.), Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (p. p. 195-204). Continuum.


De Cock, S. (2007). Contracted forms in native speaker and learner speech and writing. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28), Stratford-upon-Avon (UK).


Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2007). Routinized Building Blocks in Native Speaker and Learner Speech: Clausal Sequences in the Spotlight. In Campoy, M. C. (ed.), Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics (p. p. 217-233). Peter Lang.


De Cock, S., Gilquin, G., Granger, S., Lefer, M.-A., Paquot, M., & Ricketts, S. (2007). Improve your writing skills. In Rundell Michael (ed.), Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (second edition) (pp. IW1-IW50). Macmillan Education.


2006
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2006). Non-native Students and Users of Business English: in Search of the Ideal Dictionary. Language and the Business world - Dynamic strategies, dynamic synergy, Brussels (Belgium).


De Cock, S. (2006). Getting down to Business: Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries and Business English. In Corino, E. (ed.), Proceedings XII EURALEX International Congress (pp. 819-824). Edizioni dell’Orso.


Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2006). Getting down to Business: Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries and Business English. In Corino, E. (ed.), Proceedings XII European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) International Congress (p. p. 819-824). Edizioni dell’Orso.


2005
Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2005). Learners and phrasal verbs. In Rundell, M. (ed.), Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Plus. Macmillan Education.


Article de journal

De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2005). Computer Learner Corpora and Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries: the Perfect Match. Lexicographica, 20, 72-86. (Original work published 2005)


Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2005). Linguistique de corpus et lexique. Séminaire des Sciences du Langage des Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (SESLA), Brussels (Belgium).


De Cock, S. (2005). The routine aspects of speech and writing: a comparative corpus-driven study of native and non native performance data. The Many Faces of Phraseology: an interdisciplinary conference, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).


2004
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2004). Phraseology, corpora and ELT. Application of Corpus Linguistics for EFL Education, School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou (Canton, China).


De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2004). High Frequency Words: the Bête Noire of Lexicographers and Learners Alike. A close look at the verb ‘make’ in five monolingual learners dictionaries of English. In Williams, G. (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress (p. p. 233-243).


Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2004). High Frequency Words: The Bête Noire of Lexicographers and Learners Alike. A close look at the verb ‘make’ in five advanced learners’ dictionaries of English. In Williams, G. (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress (p. p. 233-243).


Article de journal

De Cock, S. (2004). Preferred sequences of words in NS and NNS speech. BELL : Belgian journal of English language and literatures, 225-246. (Original work published 2004)


2003
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2003). Recurrent Sequences of Words in Native Speaker and Advanced Learner Speech and Writing. BAAHE Annual Conference, Universiteit Gent (Belgium).


2002
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2002). Pragmatic Prefabs in Learners’ Dictionaries. In Braasch, A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002 (p. p. 471-481). Center for Sprogteknologi.


Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2002). Pragmatic Prefabs in Learners’ Dictionaries. In Braasch, A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 13-17 2002 (p. p. 471-481). Center for Sprogteknologi.


2001
Monographie

De Cock, S., Gilquin, G., Granger, S., & Petch-Tyson, S. (2001). Proceedings of the 22nd International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English Conference. ICAME 2001: Future Challenge for Corpus Linguistics. Centre for English Corpus Linguistics.


Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (2001). Recurrence and Phraseology in Learner and Native Corpora of Speech and Writing. ICAME 2001 - Future Challenges for Corpus Linguistics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).


2000
Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S. (2000). Repetitive Phrasal Chunkiness and Advanced EFL Speech and Writing. In Mair, C. (ed.), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20), Freiburg im Breisgau 1999 (pp. 51-68). Rodopi.


Article de journal

De Cock, S. (2000). Book review. Patterns and meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 29(2), 303-306. (Original work published 2000)


1999
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (1999). Word Combinations in Corpora of Learner Speech and ELT. Linguistics seminar, Göteborg University, English department (Sweden).


De Cock, S. (1999). Recurrent word combinations and formulaic expressions in learner speech. Word combinations in language seminar, Lund University, English department (Sweden).


De Cock, S. (1999). Repetitive Phrasal Chunkiness and Advanced EFL Speech and Writing. In Mair, C. (ed.), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20) (p. p. 51-68). Rodopi.


1998
Papier de conférence

De Cock, S. (1998). Corpora of Learner Speech and Writing and ELT. In Usoniene, A. (ed.), Proceedings from the International Conference on Germanic and Baltic Linguistic Studies and Translation (p. p. 56-66). Homo Liber.


Chapitre de livre

De Cock, S., Granger, S., Leech, G., & McEnery, T. (1998). An automated approach to the phrasicon of EFL learners. In Granger S. (ed.), Learner English on Computer (p. p. 67-79). Addison Wesley Longman.


Article de journal

De Cock, S. (1998). A Recurrent Word Combination Approach to the Study of Formulae in the Speech of Native and Non-Native Speakers of English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.3.1.04dec (Original work published 1998)