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- Language and Culture Education: French
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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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Bert Botma
Faculty of Humanities
e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2150
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Claudio Di Felice
Faculty of Humanities
c.di.felice@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2187
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A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi’s Material
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of the Awjila language, a small Berber language spoken in the Libyan oasis of Awjila.
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Ans de Rooij-van Broekhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.de.rooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2597
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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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Language prescriptivism: Attitudes to usage vs. actual language use in American English
On December 18th, Viktorija Kostadinova succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Viktorija on this great result.
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rules: a comparative study into the computational mechanisms underlying language acquisition
In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…
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Apps for learning African sign languages
It is our goal to deliver a convenient, enjoyable, learning experience that goes beyond the basics. All of the apps are an initiative of the HANDS! Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies at Leiden University, as part of the Language Socialization in Deaf Families project funded by the Leiden University…
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A Grammar of Konso
This dissertation provides a description of Konso, a Cushitic language spoken by about 250,000 speakers in the South-West Ethiopia.
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Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives'
The Special Issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics on ‘Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives’ aims to offer diverse insights on language ideologies with a focus on methodological and theoretical questions.
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Quality assurance at the Academic Language Centre
The high standards set by the Academic Language Centre are attested by the following quality labels and memberships.
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EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency (second edition)
Just Published: EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency (second edition) Authored and Edited by Gabriel Moss QC, Bob Wessels and Matthias Haentjens Published by Oxford University Press
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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms
Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.
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The music of language: exploring grammar, prosody and rhythm perception in zebra finches and budgerigars
Promotor: C.J. ten Cate
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Basic Qualification Language Proficiency English (BKE)
Leiden University has introduced the training program for the Basic Qualification in Education (BKO). This is mandatory and has been made available for (university) teachers and professors to obtain a BKO certificate, depending on the timing, scope, and duration of their employment.
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What is shared and what is unique in language and music
Knowledge and culture subproject 1:
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Language processing and the multilingual brain
This project looks at how the native language influences processing mechanisms of non-native language(s) as well has how it influences brain structure and functional connectivity.
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Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics
The research programme Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics brings together LUCL researchers who focus mainly on formal theoretical and experimental linguistics.
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process. Deaf communities form…
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Language, Education and Identity in Africa
On the 16th of September, Bert van Pinxteren successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bert on this achievement!
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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Dutch Language, Culture and Society (MA)
In the master’s programme in Dutch Language, Culture and Society at Leiden University you will study the language and culture of the Netherlands from the Dutch Golden Age – the time of Rembrandt and Vondel – until today’s dynamic and muliticultural society.
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Relative pitch in music and language
Knowledge and culture subproject 1:
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Lecture Frits Scholten: Private Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages (January 17)
On January 17th, Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) will give a lecture titled: "Private Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages." The lecture is part of a Lorentz Center workshop on 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries' and can also be…
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TAFL Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
From Sunday 12 January till Tuesday 21 January 2025, NVIC organizes a new edition of the TAFL course. This intensive, interactive course is developed for (future) teachers of Arabic. It addresses both the practical aspects of teaching Arabic as a foreign language as well as the underlying linguistic…
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Language Use in Past and Present
The research programme Language Use in Past and Present brings together linguists within LUCL whose central focus is both on actual language data, including language use in earlier stages of the language, and, taking a variationist perspective, on language change in various aspects.
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
m.m.m.a.lemmen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in Descriptive linguistics, in Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Indian, Iranian, Semitic languages and linguistics, as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.
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Focusdata: Foreign Policy through Language and Sentiment
In this article Fisher, Klein & Codjo introduce the FOCUSdate Project and they show how the sentiment data provide unique abilities to analyze Russia's and Iran's reactions to US policies and events and NGO human rights campaigns.
- Teaching Chinese Language and Culture (MA)
- Language Teaching in Secondary Education (MA)
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The comparative biology of language learning
A theoretical project on the insights gained by human (including infant), nonhuman animal and computational studies on artificial grammar learning; identifying the critical questions for future research by developing novel experimental and computational approaches to address these issues.
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Language Foundation Programme Leiden - The Hague
Preparatory year Leiden
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The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages
The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.
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English language assessment for MA students
Are you planning to register for an English taught Master’s Degree Programme after your Bachelor’s programme? In order to assess what your current level of English is, you are invited to complete an Online Oxford Quick Placement Test.
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Language archive of insular South East Asia and West New Guinea (Laiseang)
The Laiseang archiving project ensures the preservation of unique records of languages in the region which have been gathered by more than two dozen linguists at, and in collaboration with Dutch universities over the last 40 years.
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Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language
The CNaVT exam is the official, international exam of Dutch as a Foreign Language for all who learn Dutch all over the world. The Catholic University of Leuven organizes the exam. The Dutch Language Union has commissioned this collaboration.
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53rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of…
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Making cards: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Rick Honings: the power of language
Alternative perspectives and sources of colonial literature haven’t received much attention before now. School books have long ignored the violence that accompanies colonialsm. How can we paint an honest picture?
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2157
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Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries
From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…
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and differentiated support to improve speaking skills in foreign languages
Research has shown that the impact of feedback can be very powerful on second language acquisition. However, how to provide adaptive feedback on speaking skills in foreign languages and how to provide differentiated support in secondary schools in regular secondary schools classes of often 25-30 students?…