1,598 search results for “english language and culturele” in the Public website
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English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes
The second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project.
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Language Courses Portuguese
The Academic Language Centre Leiden offers one Portuguese language course. The course is practical in nature: focusing on the use of the language. More information can be found here >
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Language Courses Persian
The Academic Language Centre Leiden offers Persian language courses at different levels. The courses are practical in nature: focusing on the use of the language. More information can be found here >
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The Majang Language
On the 4th of June, Andreas Joswig successfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Andreas on this great result.
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Language Learning Resource Centre
The language learning resource centre unites all language teaching professionals working at Leiden University: teachers and researchers at the LUCL, ATC, LUCAS, LIAS, and ICLON.
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Visual Language
Anyone who creates a page for a magazine, a PowerPoint presentation, a brochure, a poster or dreams up an idea for an infographic is faced with important questions:
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Language Courses Dutch
The Academic Language Centre Leiden offers various Dutch language courses, ranging from online courses, intensive and non-intensive classroom courses of several weeks, and custom-made language trainings. More information can be found here >
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Bachelor Q&A (English)
On this page you can find answers to frequently asked questions.
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Invisible Agents Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Nadine Akkerman's book Invisible Agents is the very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies. The book foregrounds the agency of early-modern women, offering a corrective to the gender bias implicit in modern historiography.
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Second Language Acquisition
Research combining a conceptual and practical perspective within the field of teaching and learning second languages.
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Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.
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The Non-Verbal Clause in Qumran Hebrew
The present study comprises a classification and analysis of the syntax of the non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew, i.e. the linguistic variety (or varieties) found in the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls. The corpus consists of the non-biblical texts written in Hebrew; biblical texts and texts written in…
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Language documentation Ecuador
Collaborative linguistic research on indigenous languages of Ecuador: description, documentation & materials
- Language Processing and Cognition
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Dutch Language Courses
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo offers Dutch language courses for Egyptian adults on a regular basis. These courses aim to provide students with language skills in Dutch, which they can use in everyday life. Therefore you will spend most of your time practicing the language in order to…
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Language Description and Documentation
Languages spoken around the world differ vastly from the more familiar Indo-European languages. The courses in this theme aim to introduce you to the immense linguistic diversity still found in the world today.
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Engineering in language research
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
j.c.szirmai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
p.g.hoftijzer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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Unknown 18th-century Dutch: language variation in private letters
How did common people write in the late eighteenth century? Little is yet known on this topic, since our knowledge is mainly based on printed texts written by a small part of the (male) elite population. This dissertation – written from a sociolinguistic point of view – gives us new insights into late-…
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Educational materials Naduhup languages
The goal is to develop educational materials for Dâw, Hupd’äh, and Nadëb Indigenous peoples (Naduhup family; Middle and Upper Rio Negro; Brazilian Amazon). In order to achieve this, first of all, the fieldwork data collected during a collaborative project among anthropologists and linguists (2017-2020)…
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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
f.kootstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Harry Stroomer
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.stroomer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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‘Man's empathy comes from language and stories’
Man is nature's mind-reading champion: we are better able than any other living beings to empathise with others. This comes in part from our story-telling culture, according to Max van Duijn. PhD defence 20 April.
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Custom-made language training
The form and content of the course are determined by your answers on the intake form and, if necessary, an intake interview.
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Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: The Lesser Sunda Islands
What can languages spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands today tell us about the histories of its various population groups?
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Chinese and Dutch Teachers of English have different opinions about cultures associated with the English language
Teachers of English as a foreign language in China and the Netherlands have different notions of themselves as teachers in relation to cultures associated with the English language. This is stated in the doctoral thesis of Dadi Chen, who graduates from the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching…
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Sign languages and Deaf studies
At LUCL, researchers have established the Leiden Hands!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies.
- Language Policy and Practices Series
- The emerging sign language of Guinea-Bissau (LGG)
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
e.alves.vieira@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5638
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A Grammar of Mualang: An Ibanic Language of Western Kalimantan, Indonesia
This study presents a full descriptive account of the grammar of Mualang, covering the major features of phonology and morphosyntax as well as issues related to pragmatics.
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Cultural evolutionary modeling of patterns in language change. Exercises in evolutionary linguistics
This thesis describes the use of the evolutionary approach in the study of language change, aiming to provide a better insight in the mechanisms that play a role in language change and to validate this approach in the field of language change.
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The Slovene dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria
A synchronic description of the endangered Slovene dialect spoken in the Gailtal valley in Carinthia, Austria.
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About GTGC: In Other Languages
Interested in our GTGC programme? Read more here in other languages.
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
a.i.palmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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In Search of the Truth: A Sufi Reading of Modern Palestinian Literature, 1950-2010
This research aims to address the connection between Sufism and modern Arabic Literature (specifically, Palestinian literature).
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The Phonology of Shaoxing Chinese
This thesis presents a thorough survey of the central aspects of the phonology of Shaoxing Chinese from a synchronic perspective and on the basis of recent theoretical phonological developments, with the secondary goal of casting some light on current issues in Modern Chinese (Mandarin).
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Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme
On the 23rd of February, Adrian Sydney Gomes successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Adrian on this achievement!
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Mili Gabrovšek wins Education Award 2015
English Language and Culture lecturer Mili Gabrovšek has won the Education Award 2015. In the report, the jury praised Gabrovšek's humor and enthusiasm. Each year the award is presented to the most inspiring lecturer of the faculty at the opening of the academic year.
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Current Visions of TAML2 (Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages)
This is a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed 'Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics (DuJAL)’, which focuses on promoting Dutch and Belgian work in applied linguistics among an international audience, but also welcomes contributions from other countries.
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Self-directed language learning using mobile technology in higher education
This dissertation aims to explore how university students use mobile technology for their self-directed language learning and investigate factors influencing their self-directed learning with mobile technology.
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MODOMA: A computer-simulated laboratory-approach towards language acquisition
The goal of the MODOMA-project is to create a computer model of language acquisition.
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Language Diversity in the World
This research profile area brings together descriptive, historical and theoretical linguistics, as well as psycho- and neurolinguistics.
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Liko Phonology and Grammar. A Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This thesis presents a detailed description of the phonology, the tone system and the grammar of Liko, a Bantu language spoken by about 70,000 people in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It provides numerous examples.
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.