The dynamics of usage-based L2 development
Title of Colloquium: The dynamics of usage-based L2 development
Dr. Marjolijn Verspoor is a Professor Emerita of English Language and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Groningen, and Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia in Hungary. Her academic career started out as an ESL teacher in the U.S., and she wrote two textbooks for ESL students. After completing her PhD at Leiden University on a topic in theoretical syntax with a usage-based perspective, she moved to the Netherlands, where she first started teaching English for Academic Purposes at the University of Groningen and eventually moved more to the Linguistics courses in the program.
About 15 years ago, she helped set up a Masters in Applied Linguistics program in Groningen, where she worked closely with her colleagues on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) and became very interested in studying L2 development from a Dynamic Usage Based (DUB) perspective. At the same time, she supervised several Masters and Doctoral theses in teaching English, French, Dutch, and German from a DUB perspective. In her work she has always combined the theoretical (Cognitive Linguistics, Usage Based Linguistics, and CDST) with the practical implications for L2 teaching and development.
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