Media-Induced Second Language Acquisition: Children''s Acquisition of English in Flanders Prior to Instruction

About Ellen SimonMieke Van Herreweghe

Ellen Simon is Assistant Professor in Foreign Language Acquisition at Ghent University where she also obtained her PhD in Linguistics. Her research interests include child second language acquisition bilingual acquisition and phonology. She has published on these topics in Second Language Research Journal of Child Language Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and Journal of Phonetics. She is currently involved in a project on the intelligibility of non-native Dutch speech. Mieke Van Herreweghe is Senior Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics from Ghent University in 1996 on the basis of a dissertation that dealt with the syntactic competence in Dutch of Flemish deaf pupils. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching English as a second language at Ghent University and has supervised many Bachelor and Master papers in this subject. She has published on these topics in Folia Linguistica and Language and Speech.