Research projects
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Multilingualism at school and in society
In this project, an (online) workshop will be developed in which students' (10-12 years old) language and cultural awareness will be appealed to by introducing them to their own language potential.
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Finding de-escalation strategies
This project investigates what expectations language users have of conflict, of resolving disagreements and of helping out, by further developing a Twitter-corpus to examine how norms and values play a role in online interaction.
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Multilingual corpora
On the basis of multilingual corpora an analytical tool will be developed and tested in this project in which mode switch (as opposed to code switch) is operationalised.
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Automatic analysis of concreteness of texts
This project draws upon a research of a tool for the automatic analysis of concreteness in texts in which the developed interface will be optimized.
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Automatic analysis of metaphor in Covid communication
This project aims to contribute on a line of research of metaphor usage in Covid communication by making the developed metaphor identification tool more available, as well as exploring and optimizing automatic source and target domain identification.
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Peer feedback and higher-order aspects
This study investigates whether dialogic peer feedback results conversations in which higher-order aspects, such as structure and content, are discussed more than in non-dialogic peer feedback and whether this leads to more text revisions.
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Evaluating subjectivity in digital news stories
This project aims to unravel the relationship between subjectivity, digital news medium, and literacy level, by investigating processing and appreciation of subjectivity in online news narratives.