Marjolijn Verspoor

Marjolijn Verspoor
Verspoor in 2018.
Born (1952-03-11) 11 March 1952
Leiden, Netherlands
Residence Netherlands
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Thesis Semantic Criteria in Complement Selection (1990)
Website Verspoor on the website of the University of Groningen

Marjolijn Verspoor (born 1952) is a professor of English language and English as a second language at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.[1] She is known for her work on dynamic approach to second language development and the application of dynamical systems theory to study second language development. Her interest is also in second language writing.

She is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply time-series data to study second language development along with de Bot, van Geert, and Lowie.

Career

Verspoor at the University of Vigo

Verspoor obtained her PhD Thesis at the University of Leiden in 1990. The title of her thesis was Semantic Criteria in Complement Selection.

Verspoor has published journal articles and edited several books on different areas of linguistics including second language development, effects of bilingual education, effects of cognitive insights into second language development, cognitive lingusitic approach to English complementation.

Verspoor was appointed as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in German at the German Department of the Louisiana State University, The United States in 1973. In 1976 she was appointed as an Instructor of German, French and English as a Second Language in Foreign Language Department at the Northeast Louisiana University. In 1989 she became an Asstant Professor at the English Department of the University of Missouri, The United States where she was also the Coordinator of 'Academic English for International students' program. Between 1991 and 1994 she was an Instrcutor at the English Department of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Between 1995 and 2005 she was appointed as the Chair National Exam Board (CEVO: VWO-HAVO) for English. She was responsible for content of national English exam. Since 1994 she has been a University Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Groningen. Between 2005 and 2009 she was appointed as the Study advisor and coordinator MA program Applied Linguistics-Teaching English as a foreign language.[2]

She is one of the members of the Solidarity Award Committee of the International Association of Applied Linguistics along with Kees de Bot and Rosa Manchón.[3]

In 2016 she was one of the keynote speakers at the EUROSLA26 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.[4]

Works

In 2004 she wrote a seminal article along with de Bot and Lowie on second language development, in which she applied the dynamic systems theory to study second language writing development. This was the first research paper in which time-series data were used to explicate changes in the development of second language writing.[5]

In 2015 Verspoor presented A dynamic perspective on developmental patterns in Finnish as an L2 at the ELC 4. Fourth International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition at the University of Vigo.[6]

In 2017 Verspoor's first article was published in which she and her colleagues applied the Hidden Markov Model to simulate language development.[7]

She is also noted for her work on language complexity. She proposed the finite verb ratio index to measure general syntactic complexity and the average word length of content words to gauge lexical complexity in second language writing development.

Bibliography

Books

  • Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning (1997)[8]
  • Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics (1998)[9]
  • Explorations in Linguistic Relativity (2000)[10]
  • Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book (2005)[11]
  • A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques (2011)[12]

Articles

  • "The story of-ing: A subjective perspective." (1996)
  • "Making sense of polysemous words." (2003)
  • "Dynamic Systems Theory and Variation: A Case Study in L2-writing." (2004)
  • "Dynamic Systems Theory and Applied Linguistics: the ultimate “so what”?" (2005)
  • "A dynamic systems theory approach to second language acquisition." (2007)
  • "Variability in L2 development from a Dynamic Systems Perspective." (2008)[13]
  • "Dynamic patterns in development of accuracy and complexity: A longitudinal case study in the acquisition of Finnish." (2010)
  • "An identity approach to second language acquisition." (2011)
  • "A dynamic usage based perspective on L2 writing." (2012)
  • "Variability and variation in second language acquisition orders: A dynamic reevaluation." (2015)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Marjolijn Verspoor - Faculty of Arts". University of Groningen. 21 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Marjolijn Verspoor CV". University of Groningen. 2018.
  3. ↑ "AILA - Committees". Aila. 2018.
  4. ↑ "EuroSLA 26". University of Jyväskylä. 31 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Dynamic systems theory and variation: a case study in L2-writing". Amsterdam: Free University Press. 2004.
  6. ↑ "Instruction or not? A dynamic perspective on developmental patterns in Finnish as an L2". UVigoTV. 2015.
  7. ↑ "Linguistic complexity in second language development: variability and variation at advanced stages". Recherches en didactique des langues et des culture. Les cahiers de l'Acedle. 2017.
  8. ↑ Verspoor, Marjolijn (1997). Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 454. ISBN 9789027236548.
  9. ↑ Verspoor, Marjolijn (1998). Cognitive exploration of language and linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 277. ISBN 9789027219060.
  10. ↑ Verspoor, Marjolijn (2000). Explorations in linguistic relativity. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 369. ISBN 9789027237064.
  11. ↑ Verspoor, Marjolijn (2005). Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. p. 320. ISBN 9780415338707.
  12. ↑ Verspoor, Marjolijn (2011). A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 211. ISBN 9789027219985.
  13. ↑ "Variability in Second Language Development From a Dynamic Systems Perspective". The Modern Language Journal. 2008.
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