Aims

- reading, analysis, synthesis and presentation of scientific articles in linguistics and psycholinguistics. This presupposes a good knowledge of the bibliographical search tools and data bases, the capacity to present new material (in the written and spoken mode) and a critical analytical mind.
- practical implementation of theoretical knowledge by means of corpus analyses and psycholinguistic experimentation.

Main themes

Contrastive linguistics L1/L2 (Dutch)
Discourse linguistics
Corpus analyses
Psycholinguistic experimentation

Content and teaching methods

The course will take the format of a seminar. An active participation of the students is hence required.
Contrastive study of discourse makers in written texts (connectives, anaphora, thematic constructions) in Dutch L1 (mother tongue) and Dutch L2 (second language)
- reading and presentation of scientific articles
- experimental study of the impact of discourse markers on the comprehension of expository and/or narrative texts: preparation of the experimental materials, taking of the experiment, data analysis
- corpus analysis of L2 production of such discourse markers: building and analysis of an L2 corpus

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites : knowledge of key concepts in linguistics, (passive) knowledge of scientific English.


Evaluation : oral presentation and active participation in the seminar.


Teaching materials : copies of articles .



Course Holder/Course Supervision: one lecturer.

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