The clause-initial position in texts written by Dutch English as a Foreign Language users has been researched with the use of corpora. Corpus research is useful in doing second language acquisition research, especially ...

Various research has shown the importance of language awareness (LA) in second language education. For my research I wanted look into the levels of language awareness in second year secondary school students from the ...

This study revolved around the research question: Is lecturers’ way of teaching in English different from their way of teaching in Dutch? The study was a replication of Vinke (1995), which was expanded by means of findings ...

This present study investigated the frequency and functions of code-switching in two sets of beginning level learners of Spanish at Wageningen in’to Languages. There is an overbearing stigma attached to the use of the L1 ...

This thesis investigates native speaker perceptions of the use of clause-initial circumstance adverbials in texts written by L1 Dutch advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Such infelicitous sentence-beginnings ...

Lexical bundles, sequences of multiple words that often occur together in natural discourse (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan, 1999), have been found to serve as building blocks of discourse and mark fluent language ...

In an attempt to revive the experimental investigation of language attitudes, this thesis employs methodologically innovative elicitation techniques to extract language attitudes with respect to four varieties of English: ...

This study explores if traces of linguistic divergence in the use of relative clauses (RCs) can be found in English learner language. RCs have been subjected to a considerable amount of research on language acquisition. ...

This study investigates the effect of typographical enhancement on L2 vocabulary acquisition. This study explores the following research questions: are typographically enhanced nouns, adjectives and verbs remembered better ...