Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students whose research focus is on vocabulary acquisition and lexical issues, in particular

• vocabulary acquisition from reading

• vocabulary acquisition from listening or viewing

• learning collocations/formulaic sequences

• vocabulary acquisition from out-of-school exposure/extramural English

• vocabulary processing

• vocabulary testing.

I have (co-)supervised six PhD projects.

• Duy, V.V., Peters, E. (sup.), Noreillie, A-S. (cosup.) (2022). Incidental collocation learning from different modes of input and factors that affect learning. 

• Puimège, E., Peters, E. (sup.), Montero Perez, M. (cosup.) (2022). An empirical investigation into the acquisition and processing of L2 formulaic sequences in meaningful input. 

• Duong, P.T., Peters, E. (sup.), Desmet, P. (cosup.), Montero Perez, M. (cosup.) (2021). When input meets output? Empirical investigations into the impact of input and output tasks on L2 vocabulary acquisition and use. 

• Noreillie, A-S., Peters, E. (sup.), Desmet, P. (cosup.) (2019). It's all about words. Three empirical studies into the role of lexical knowledge and use in French listening and speaking tasks. 

• Montero Perez, M., Desmet, P. (sup.), Peters, E. (cosup.) (2013). Watch and Learn?! Five studies into the use and effectiveness of captioned video for L2 listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. 

• Liu, I-H., Sercu, L. (sup.), Peters, E. (cosup.) (2012). Effects of reading and writing tasks on second language vocabulary acquisition. 

I'm currently supervising three PhD students (Eva Caltabellotta, Marion Durbahn Quinteros, Elien Prophète).

I have been an external examiner/opponent for 13 PhD theses:  

• 2022: Universiteit van Amsterdam (Elisabetta Materassi)

• 2021: Radboud University Nijmegen (Xiaoru Yu)

• 2020: Victoria University of Wellington (Elvenna Majuddin), University of Nottingham (Julian Northbrook), University of Vienna (Marlene Schwarz), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Nicole Busby) 

• 2019: Stockholm University (Per Snoder) as opponent, UCLondon (Hana Almutairi), Victoria University of Wellington (Thuy Thi Bick Bui)  

• 2017: Victoria University of Wellington (Chi Duc Nguyen) 

• 2016: University of Nottingham (Laura Vilkaite)  

• 2015: Lancaster University (Muna Ali A. Al-Shehri) 

• 2012: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Julie Deconinck)

I have been internal examiner for 13 PhD theses: 

• 2023: Hedwig Gerets

• 2022: Jocelyne Daems, Serge Bibauw

• 2021: Hatice Nur Ozcelik

• 2020: Bert Vandenberghe , Marieke Vanbuel, Isabeau Fievez

• 2018: Cindy Kuiper, Anne White, Anh Thi Nguyen  

• 2017: Joke Drijkoningen, Bart Deygers 

• 2014: Frederik Cornillie 

Students who are interested in doing their PhD study under my supervision should send me a research proposal containing the research aim, rationale, clear research questions and research design. The proposal should be in English. It is strongly recommend to have a background in applied linguistics or vocabulary studies and to be familiar with the basics of statistics. The language(s) studied are preferably Dutch, English, German, or French. Other languages (Italian, Spanish, Arabic) are also possible. Purely questionnaire-based and interview-based studies, however, will not be considered.

For more information on starting a PhD at the Faculty of Arts, please go to the Faculty's PhD website.