Contact
cecl@uclouvain.be
Team members

Laura Aguiar de Souza Penha Marion
PhD student
Research interests: corpus-based contrastive and translation studies; translation process research; expertise studies; directionality

Sylvie De Cock
Professor of English language, linguistics and business English
Research interests: spoken (and written) learner corpora; phraseology; English for Specific Purposes (business English)

Valérie d’Herbais de Thun
PhD Student
Research interests: contrastive linguistics; learner corpora; SLA; crosslinguistic influence; EFL writing; writing fluency; EAP; applied linguistics ; complexity; phraseology

Tanguy Dubois
PhD student
Research interests: second language acquisition and multilingualism; linguistic alternations; inter- and intra-individual language change; factors of processing complexity and (processing-related) language universals

Maïté Dupont
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: contrastive linguistics; translation studies; corpus linguistics; Systemic Functional Linguistics; cohesion

Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Research interests: analysis and comparison of New Englishes and Learner Englishes; cognitive linguistics; applied Construction Grammar; verb complementation

Sylviane Granger
Founder of the CECL; Professor Emerita and Invited Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Research interests: analysis and applications of learner and bilingual corpora; phraseology; academic language; electronic lexicographical and pedagogical tools; corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies

Pauline Jadoulle
PhD student – Teaching assistant
Research interests: analysis and applications of learner corpora; English for Academic Purposes

Marie-Aude Lefer
Associate Professor of translation studies and English-French translation
Research interests: corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies; learner translation corpus research; contrastive lexicology; lexis in translated text; bilingual lexicography; parallel corpora; learner translation corpora

Verena Möller
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: learner corpus compilation and analysis; educational environments; individual differences in language learning

Magali Paquot
F.R.S.-F.N.R.S Research associate
Research interests: analysis and applications of learner corpora; second language acquisition; crosslinguistic influence; phraseology; complexity; contrastive linguistics; English for Academic Purposes; electronic lexicography

Rachel Rubin
PhD student
Research interests: second language acquisition; multilingualism; computational linguistics; contact linguistics; complexity; phraseology

Helen Swallow
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: analysis of advanced non-native corpora; analysis of edited text; error tagging; error analysis, with a particular focus on implications for language teaching in the EU institutions

Larry Valentin
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: blended and distance education; new technologies in foreign language teaching and learning; ESP; EAP; learner corpora

Bert Van de Poel
PhD student
Research interests: learner corpus research; corpus methodology; quantitative methods in linguistics; second language acquisition

Nathan Vandeweerd
PhD student
Research interests: second language acquisition; formulaic language; corpus linguistics; learner corpora; lexico-grammatical complexity
Associated members

Amélie Bulon
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: second language acquisition; CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning; learner corpora; phraseology

Natacha Buntinx
PhD student
Research interests: writing processes; English for Academic Purposes (EAP); second language acquisition; multilingualism; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics
Amandine Dumont
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: analysis of learner speech; fluency and disfluency; corpus linguistics

Caroline Gerckens
PhD student
Research interests: (longitudinal) learner corpora; phraseology; verb complementation

Isa Hendrikx
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: second language acquisition; translation; construction grammar; learner corpora; parallel corpora; intensifying constructions in French, Dutch and English

Oda Kayonde
PhD student – Assistant Lecturer
Research interests: corpus linguistics; (longitudinal) learner corpora; second/foreign language learning; applied linguistics; cohesion in English with focus on the use of connectors

Samantha Laporte
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: New Englishes; verb complementation; SLA; Construction Grammar; Valency Grammar; Corpus Pattern Analysis

Tove Larsson
Postdoctoral researcher
Research interests: analysis and applications of learner corpora; English for Academic Purposes; stance marking; lexicogrammar; syntax; research methods
Tim Marchand
PhD student
Research interests: corpus linguistics; learner corpora; language education; computer-mediated communication; classroom language

Fanny Meunier
Professor of English language, linguistics and didactics
Research interests: second/foreign language acquisition; analysis and pedagogical applications of learner corpora; phraseology; grammar; longitudinal learner corpora; teacher training

Alice Meurice
PhD student
Research interests: professional development of L2 teachers; researcher/practitioner communities; integration of ICT within L2 teaching practices; learner enjoyment of L2 practice

Eric Nicaise
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: native-English and non-native teacher talk; implications from second-language acquisition research for the English classroom; teacher development; phonology

Gervaise Picron
PhD student
Research interests: French linguistics; writing skills; academic writing; psycholinguistics

Aurore Potalivo Richardson-Todd
PhD student – Teaching assistant
Research interests: Sociolinguistics; Language and Gender; Second Language Acquisition, Language, Gender and Education; Discourse Analysis

Natassia Schutz
Visiting associate professor
Research interests: English for Specific and Academic Purposes; Applied Linguistics; Blended and Distance Learning; Phraseology
Jennifer Thewissen
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: analysis of learner corpora with particular focus on the construct of accuracy; error tagging; L2 developmental research

Julie Van de Vyver
PhD student – Teaching assistant
Research interests: Mobile-Assisted Language Learning; digital literacies for the teaching and learning of languages; teacher training

Arnaud Vincent
Scientific collaborator
Research interests: computer-assisted discourse studies; American studies; religious rhetoric; political discourse