Research
Research at the ILT
Our research is predominantly applied scientific research in a variety of fields.- WebCEF
- Learning and teaching vocabulary
- Learning and teaching collocations
- Foreign language didactics
- CALL/WALL (computer/Web Assisted Language Learning)
- CSP (Communication for specific purposes)
- E-learning
- Intercultural competence
- (pedagogical ) lexicography
- Language proficiency
- Testing
- Foreign language acquisition
- Doctoral research
- Intercultural Educational Resources for Erasmus Students and Teachers (IEREST)
WebCEF
- WebCEF wins the European Language Label 2011 in Italy:
http://www.labeleuropeo.it/it_winner_lista.asp - poster WebCEF for the ORD-day (PDF, 238KB)
Learning and teaching vocabulary
General: online article Buyse Aprendizaje del vocabulario (PDF, 73KB)
Learning and teaching collocations
Buyse: online articlel (PDF, 236KB)
Foreign language didactics
M@estro
CALL/WALL (Computer/Web Assisted Language Learning)
Besides using Toledo, the KU Leuven testing and learning platform, the ILT tutors have a large amount of expertise in developing and using ICT tools, as the following projects illustrate:
- Alfalex (Active French as a foreign language learning environment )
- Arall (Advanced Receptive Arabic Language Learning)
- Basic Spanish pronunciation for Dutch speakers (demo on www.e-tutor.be)
- ElektraVoc: online article Buyse & Delbecque (PDF, 200KB)
- Go Dutch
- ICCP (Interactive Classroom Computer Project)
- Idiomatic
- InStap Dutch
- Multitaal: elektronic learning tools for indigenous languages
CSP (Communication for specific purposes)
- ElektraVoc Economía: online article Buyse (PDF, 1.56MB)
- Dafa
- Dicofe
- VLIR-IUC programme
- CeBeCE
Lut Baten of the Leuven Language Institute is coordinating the CeBeCE (Capacity Building for Communication) project of English for Academic Purposes in International Collaboration, within the framework of the Flemish University Council (VLIR), in collaboration with the Programme for Institutional University Co-operation (IUC) and the UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL "MARTA ABREU' DE LAS VILLAS UCLV, Cuba.
- Baten, L. & N. Bouckaert, K. Yingli (to appear) "The Use of Communities in a Virtual Learning Environment". In: Michael Thomas (ed.) , Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning, IGI Global publication
Intercultural competence
The effect of task complexity and task conditions Sercu De Wachter, Peters, Kuiken, Vedder (PDF, 444KB)
Learning culture and vocabulary from reading texts. Does task instruction make a difference? (DOC, 60KB)
- Dafa (Dictionnaire d’apprentissage du français des affaires)
- Dafles (Dictionnaire d’apprentissate du français langue étrangère ou seconde)
- Dicofe (Dictionnaire contextuel du français économique)
- Learners’ dictionary Dutch -Arabic /Arabic -Dutch
- ElektraVoc
- Kris Buyse, “Por el amor del estudiante”: hacia una lexicografía integradora (PDF, 171KB)
Kris Buyse, Motivating writing education (PDF, 982KB)
testing
- WebCEF: Online self-assessment of oral competence
online evaluation of oral competence (self assessment and teacher and peer assessment ) based on the Common European Framework (CEF) - Socrates Project in collaboration with Media and Learning Unit (general coordination )
coordinator: prof. dr. Lut Baten
in collaboration with Yvette D'Silva Hymers
/www.webcef.eu/ - Automated C-test
- Self-assessment tool EvaM@estra - online article Buyse & Torfs (PDF, 416KB)
Foreign language acquisition
M@estro
The publication ‘ Leven in talen’ provides an extensive overview of our ILT teachers’ contributions to the field of foreign language acquisition.
Doctoral research
Intercultural Educational Resources for Erasmus Students and Teachers (IEREST)
