Dr N. Vandeweerd (Nathan)

Nathan Vandeweerd is an Assistant professor in the Department of Language and Communication. He earned his bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Montreal, where he majored in Linguistics and minored in French Translation. Following his undergraduate education, he worked as a language teacher in Japan. In 2016, he completed a master’s in Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen, where he subsequently worked as a lecturer in the English Language and Culture Department. His doctoral research was carried out at the UCLouvain and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Dr. Magali Paquot and Prof. Dr. Alex Housen and focused on the topic of phraseological complexity in L2 French. His research interests include second language acquisition, corpus linguistics and the effect of register on L2 production.