They are currently writing their PhD thesis at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics under the supervision of CECL team members:
Laura Aguiar de Souza Penha Marion
PhD project: Directionality in empirical translation studies: Triangulating product and process data
Supervisors: Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain) and Marie-Aude Lefer (UCLouvain)
Valérie d’Herbais de Thun
PhD project: Comparison of L1 and L2 writing fluency on the basis of screencast videos and keystroke log files
Supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain)
Tanguy Dubois
PhD project: Alternation phenomena in EFL learners: Probabilistic Grammar meets Usage-based approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Supervisors: Magali Paquot (UCLouvain) and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KUL)
Pauline Jadoulle
PhD project: Investigating novice academic writing: A crosslinguistic approach to authorial stance
Supervisor: Magali Paquot (UCLouvain)
Tim Marchand
PhD project: An investigation into expert and learner corpora of computer-mediated communication
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger (UCLouvain)
Gervaise Picron
PhD project: Analyse linguistique des stades évolutifs de la compétence rédactionnelle à l'université
Supervisors: Anne-Catherine Simon (VALIBEL, UCLouvain) and Magali Paquot (UCLouvain)
Rachel Rubin
PhD project: Lexicogrammatical complexity – A missing construct in L2 research
Supervisors: Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Magali Paquot (UCLouvain)
Bert Van de Poel
PhD project: Socio-cognitive conflicts and negotiating meaning in a foreign language
Supervisor: Magali Paquot (UCLouvain)
Nate Vandeweerd
PhD project: Lexicogrammatical complexity in French as a Foreign Language: The impact of mode
Supervisors: Alex Housen and Magali Paquot
They completed their PhD thesis at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics under the supervision of CECL team members:
Samantha Laporte
PhD project: The patterning of the high-frequency verb make in varieties of English: A Construction Grammar approach, 2019
Supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Maïté Dupont
PhD project: Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French: From Syntax to Lexis and Discourse, 2019
Supervisors: Sylviane Granger and Liesbeth Degand
Amandine Dumont
PhD project: Fluency and disfluency: A corpus study of nonnative and native speaker (dis)fluency profiles, 2018
Supervisors: Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger
Natassia Schutz
PhD project: Verbs in English for Academic Purposes: A cross-disciplinary corpus-driven study, 2017
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Ludivine Crible
PhD project: Discourse markers and (dis)fluency across registers: A contrastive usage-based study in English and French, 2017
Supervisor: Liesbeth Degand and Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Verena Möller
PhD project: The impact of Educational Setting: A Study of the English Passive in German EFL and CLIL, 2016
Supervisors: Sylviane Granger and Ulrich Heid
Diane Goossens
PhD project: Quantity approximation in business language. A contrastive, corpus-driven approach (Dutch, English, French), 2014
Supervisor: Sylvie De Cock and Philippe Hiligsmann
Jennifer Thewissen
PhD project: A learner-corpus-based study of error developmental patterns: The impact of proficiency level, 2012
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Marie-Aude Lefer
PhD project: Exploring lexical morphology across languages: A corpus-based study of prefixation in English and French writing, 2009
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Nora Condon
PhD project: Investigating a cognitive linguistic approach to the learning of English phrasal verbs, 2008
Supervisors: Sylviane Granger and Peter Kelly
Christelle Cosme
PhD project: Clause Linking across Languages A corpus-based study of coordination and subordination in English, French and Dutch, 2007
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Qin Ma
PhD project: Design and Evaluation of a Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning Program for Chinese Learners of English: A User-Centred Approach, 2007
Supervisors: Sylviane Granger and Peter Kelly
Magali Paquot
PhD project: EAP vocabulary in native and learner writing: From extraction to analysis. A phraseology-oriented approach, 2007
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
PhD project: Corpus-based cognitive study of the main English causative verbs. A syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic approach, 2004
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Sylvie De Cock
PhD project: Recurrent Sequences of Words in Native Speaker and Advanced Learner Spoken and Written English: A Corpus-Driven Approach, 2003
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Jamal Koubali
PhD project: News and editorials in the British Press: A comparative discourse analysis study, 2000
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Fanny Meunier
PhD project: A computer corpus linguistics approach to interlanguage grammar: Noun phrase complexity in advanced learner writing, 2000
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger
Isabelle Knott
PhD project: The Function and Implications of Metaphor in British “Quality” and “Popular” Dailies, 1996
Supervisor: Sylviane Granger