Editorial work

Founding editor and editor in chief

  • 2015 – XXX: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (with Marcus Callies, Bremen University, 2015-2020; with Sandra Götz, Philipps University Marburg, 2021 – XXX)

Editorial board

  • 2022 – : Ampersand
  • 2019 – : Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • 2017 – 2023 : Register Studies
  • 2016 (november) – : Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • 2015 – 2019? : Belgian Journal of Linguistics
  • 2015 – 2019 : Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics

Advisory panels

Member of association boards

Networks

PhD supervision

  • Nathan Vandeweerd. Lexicogrammatical complexity in French as a Foreign Language: the impact of mode. 5 July 2022, UCLouvain – VUB, Belgium (co-supervision with Prof. A. Housen, VUB).
  • Gervaise Picron. Analyse linguistique des stades évolutifs de la compétence rédactionnelle à l’université. 28 April 2023, UCLouvain, Belgium (co-supervision with Prof. A.-C. Simon).
  • Tanguy Dubois. Particle placement and genitive alternations in EFL learner spoken syntax: core probabilistic grammar and/or L1-specific preferences? 10 November 2023, UCLouvain – KULeuven, Belgium (co-supervision with Prof. B. Szmrecsanyi).
  • Pauline Jadoulle. Non-nativeness and noviceness in French EFL academic writing. UCLouvain.
  • Rachel Rubin. Lexicogrammatical complexity in L2 Dutch. VUB – UCLouvain, Belgium (co-supervision with Prof. A. Housen).

Member of PhD committees (supervisory panels) and PhD juries

University of Louvain

  • Member of the PhD Committee of Lingmin Huang (2023 – ): Lexical bundle use across EFL and ESL varieties. (supervisors: Sylvie De Cock & Sylviane Granger)
  • Member of the PhD Committee of Xiaofang Duan (2018 – ): A study on the use of Discourse Markers in English and Chinese Academic Discourses. (supervisor: Liesbeth Degand)
  • Member of the Jury and Chair of the Jury of Anaïs Tack: Mark my words! On the automated prediction of lexical difficulty for foreign language readers. 26 June 2021. (supervisors : Cédrick Fairon, François Thomas & Piet Desmet, KULeuven)
  • Member of the PhD Committee of Tim Marchand, Gakushuin University (2013-): An investigation into a learner corpus of computer-mediated communication. (supervisors: Sylvie De Cock & Sylviane Granger)
  • Member of the PhD Committee of Maïté Dupont (2013-2019): Cohesive markers of contrast in English and French. A register-analytic corpus study. (supervisor: Sylviane Granger)
  • Member of the PhD Committee and Jury of Marie Rasson (2013-2017): La comunicación imprecisa: mecanismos de interpretación y funcionamiento discursivo del pronombre indefinido “uno”. (supervisor: Barbara De Cock)
  • Member of the PhD Committee and Jury of Samantha Laporte (2011-2019): Verb complementation patterns across New Englishes: a corpus-based approach. (supervisor: Gaëtanelle Gilquin)
  • Member of the PhD Committee and Jury of Natassia Schutz (2009-2016): Verbs in English for Academic Purposes: A corpus-driven cross-disciplinary analysis. (supervisor: Sylviane Granger)

Other universities

  • External examiner, PhD committee of Maryam Nassari, Statistical modelling of lexical and syntactic complexity of academic writing: a genre and corpus-based study of EFL, ESL and English L1 MA dissertations, 12 June 2020, The University of Birmingham, UK. (supervisors: Paul Thompson & Bodo Winter)
  • Advisory committee and PhD Jury of Eva Puimège, Learning multiword units from audio-visual input. 30 May 2022, KU Leuven, Belgium (supervisor: Elke Peters)
  • International member of the PhD jury of Sanne van Vuuren, Traces of Transfer? Pragmatic development in the use of initial adverbials in the interlanguage of advanced Dutch learners of English. 30 March 2017, Radboud University, The Netherlands. (supervisors : A. M. C. Kemenade & P.J. M. de Haan).
  • International member of the PhD jury of Danica Joy Salazar, Lexical bundles in scientific English: A corpus-based study of native and non-native writing, 24 November 2011, University of Barcelona, Spain. (supervisor: Isabel Verdaguer)

(Nominated) referee , selection committees, etc.

  • FNRS Commission scientifique Sciences Humaines et Sociales – 3 (SHS-3), pour l’Appel « Bourses et mandats 2023 » (commission doctorale et commission internationale)
  • French Applied Linguistics, selection committee, KULeuven, Belgium (2022-2023)
  • FNRS Commission scientifique Sciences Humaines et Sociales – 3 (SHS-3), pour l’Appel « Crédits et Projets 2022 »
  • Selection committee for the Chaire Altissia: Cultures et éthique du numérique, UCLouvain, Belgium (2018-2019)
  • Serra Húnter selection committee, UB-AG-309, University of Barcelona (2017-2018)
  • British Academy (Postdoctoral Fellowships Outline, 2013)

Reviewing for publishers (book proposals)

  • Routledge (2020)
  • Cambridge University Press (2018; 2021)

Manuscript reviewer

Journals:

  • Action Didactique
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Assessing Writing
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Corpora 
  • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • English Text Construction
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • International Journal of Lexicography
  • ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics
  • International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
  • Journal of Second Language Writing
  • Languages in Contrast
  • Language Learning
  • Language Learning and Technology
  • Language Resources and Evaluation
  • Linguistics Vanguard
  • Register Studies
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • System
  • The Modern Language Journal

Member of programme/scientific committees 

  • EUROSLA33, 3-6 July 2024, Montpellier, France
  • LREC-COLING 2024, 20-25 May 2024, Torino, Italy
  • American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, 16 – 19 March 2024, Houston, USA.
  • The 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association, 30 August – 2 September 2023, University of Birmingham, UK.
  • Corpus Linguistics 2023, 3-6 July 2023, Lancaster University, UK.
  • Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr). 8-9 July 2022, UK, Edge Hill University. (online)
  • 11th NLP4CALL workshop, 9 December 2022, University of Louvain, Belgium.
  • 6th Learner Corpus Research (LCR2022), 22-24 September 2022, University of Padua, Italy.
  • 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), 20-25 June 2022, Marseille, France.
  • BKL/CBL Linguists’ Day 2021, 22 October 2021, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.
  • Learner Corpus Research GradConf2021, 11-12 October 2021, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (online).
  • EUROPHRAS, 6-9 September 2021, University of Louvain, Belgium (online).
  • Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr). 3 July 2021, UK, Edge Hill University. (online)
  • 10th NLP4CALL (collocated with NoDaLiDa 2021), 31 May 2021, Gothenburg, Sweden. (online)
  • Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS, 6th edition), 9-11 September 2021, Bertinoro, Italy.
  • PhraséoTerm – Phraséologie et Terminologie, 16-17 November 2020, Université de Vérone, Italy.
  • The LSB Linguists’ Day, 16 October 2020, University of Namur, Belgium.
  • EURALEX2020: Lexicography for inclusion, 8 September 2020, Alexandroupolis, Greece. (postponed)
  • Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2020, 11-16 May 2020, Marseille, France. (cancelled)
  • Learner Corpus Research 2019, 12-14 September 2019, 12-14 September 2019, University of Warsaw, Poland.
  • EUROCALL2019, 28-31 August 2019, UCLouvain, Belgium.
  • International Corpus Linguistics (CL) Conference 2019, 22-26th July 2019, Cardiff University, UK.
  • VOCAB@Leuven, 1-3 July 2019, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies conference, 12-14 September 2018, University of Louvain, Belgium.
  • EURALEX2018, Ljubljana, 17-21 July 2018, Slovenia.
  • Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar, 16 June 2018, Edge Hill University, UK.
  • 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in 2018 (LREC2018), May 7-12, 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.
  • Journée d’étude consacrée aux collocations génériques, 15 January 2018, Université Paris Diderot, France.
  • Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology, EUROPHRAS, 13-14 November 2017, London, UK.
  • 3rd Learner Corpus Research 2017, 5-7 October 2017, Bolzano, Italy.
  • eLex 2017 electronic lexicography in the 21st century: Lexicography from Scratch, 19-21 September 2017, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Corpus Linguistics Conference, 24-28 July 2017, Birmingham, UK.
  • AFLiCo7 Discours, Cognition et Constructions : Implications et Applications, 31 May – 3 June 2017, Université de Liège, Belgium.
  • 38th ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) conference, Corpus et Orbis: Interpreting the World through Corpora, 24-28 May 2017, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Metadiscourse across Genres: Mapping out interactions in spoken and written discourses, 30 March- 1 April 2017, Cappadocia, Turkey.
  • Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC) workshop, COLING2016, 11-16 December 2016, Japan.
  • Linguistic Society of Belgium Best Paper Presentation by a doctoral student, LSB Linguists’ Day, 13  May 2016, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
  • 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia.
  • EURALEX2016, 6-10 September 2016, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Corpus studies at the lexis-grammar interface. Corpus Linguistics in the South 12 workshop. Edge Hill University, UK, 2 April 2016.
  • International Conference on Corpus Linguistics and Technological Advancement 2015 (CoLTA 2015), Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, 16-18 December 2015
  • 8ème Journées de la Linguistique de Corpus, 2-4 September 2015, Orléans, France
  • electronic lexicography in the 21st century: Linking lexical data in the digital age, 11-13 August 2015, Herstmonceux, UK
  • Learner Corpus Research 2015, 11-13 September 2015, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Corpus Linguistics 2015, 21-24 July 2015, Lancaster
  • EURALEX2014, European Association for Lexicography, July, Bolzano, Italy.
  • Electronic Lexicography in the 21st century (ELEX2013), 17-19 October 2014, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Learner Corpus Research 2013, 27-29 September, Bergen, Norway.
  • Corpus Linguistics 2013, 22-26 July, Lancaster University, UK.
  • « Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) », The 20th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2012, November 2012, Singapore
  • eLexicography in the 21st century (eLEX2011), 10-12 November 2011, Bled, Slovenia.
  • Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS 2011), 16-18 November 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
  • 20 years of learner corpus research: looking back, moving ahead, 15-17 September 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
  • 30th ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) conference, Looking back – Moving forward, 27-31 May 2009, Lancaster, UK.
  • New trends in corpus linguistics for language teaching and translation studies. In honour of John Sinclair. 22-24 September 2008, Granada, Spain.
  • Expert workshop organized by the Integrated Digital Language Learning (IDILL) seed grant project: Optimizing the role of language in Technology-Enhanced Learning. Louvain-la-Neuve, 4-5 October 2007.

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Treasurer

  • Linguistic Society of Belgium (2016 – 2019)

University service

  • 2020 – 2021: Member of the Selection Committee ESPO/ILC 25786 (information and communication)
  • 2020- : Coordinatrice du Groupe à Tâches « Mémoires »
  • 2019 – 2021 : Coordinatrice des rencontres des Comité de Cycle (Master en Langues et Littératures, Master en Linguistique)
  • 2019 – 2021: Member of the Scientific Committee for the “Chaire Altissia: Cultures et éthique du numérique”
  • 2019 – : CENTAL Management Committee President
  • 2018 – 2019: Member of the Selection Committee for the “Chaire Altissia: Cultures et éthique du numérique” (UCLouvain, FIAL)
  • 2018 – 2024 : ILC staff representative to the SMCS Users’ Committee
  • 2018 –  : Academic staff representative to the Board of the Language & Communication Institute
  • 2017 – 2018 : Examination Board Secretary (Commission Langues et Littératures Modernes, orientation germanique)
  • 2016 – : Member of the CENTAL Management Committee
  • 2016 – : CECL representative to the CENTAL Users’ Committee
  • 2015: Beta-tester for the new UCL research portal REAL
  • 2015- 2016: Temporary research staff representative to the Committee of the Language & Communication Institute
  • 2012-2015: Examination Board Secretary (Commission Langues et Littératures Modernes, orientation générale)
  • 2011-2013: Temporary research staff representative to the Committee of the Language & Communication Institute
  • 2009-2010: Member of the Committee for Internationalisation (Commission Langues et Littératures Modernes)
  • 2009-2011: Temporary research staff representative to the Board and the Committee of the Language & Communication Institute
  • 2008-2009: Temporary research staff representative to the ROGE Board
  • 2007-2008: Temporary research staff representative to the GERM Board