Current positions
I am currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Language, Literature and Communication (Applied Linguistics) at the VU University Amsterdam. I am also lecturer for Proeducation.
I teach the following courses:
- Taal en denken / Psycholinguistics
- Specific language developmental disorders
- Speech and Hearing / Phonetics
- Statistics in Applied Linguistics
- Language and Hearing disorders
Topics of Ma-Thesis projects under my supervision include:
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The understanding of narrative text; the relation between textprocessing, working memory, vocabulary and phonemic awareness
- Phonetic cues in hearing disorders
- Audiometry in young children
- Reading disorders
- Noise exclusion deficit hypothesis
- Language understanding in second language learining
- Serious games for better hearing
From 2013 until 2017 I was the coordinator of the Minor Language & Hearing
For information about my research projects, click on projects