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  • PhD in Linguistics (English dialectology and sociolinguistics/historical linguistics), KU Leuven, 1991
  • Degree in Teacher Training Higher Secundary Education (English-Dutch), KU Leuven, 1984
  • MA in Germanic Philology, English-Dutch, KU Leuven, 1984
  • BA in Germanic Philology, English-Dutch, UFSIA (now University of Antwerp), 1982
  • Certificate Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster), July -August 1982
  • October 1990-March 2025: Assistant Professor of  English, KU Leuven/Campus Antwerp 
  • 1993-2004: Chargée de Cours Invitée, English Dept., UCLouvain
  • 2018-2022: External examiner Kemmy Business School (University of Limerick)
  • October 1984-September 1990: Teaching Assistant, English Dept., KU Leuven/Campus Leuven
  • 2021- present: Mentor for (highly) gifted children and adolescents (cf. Talentvol)
  • Extensive experience of teaching English to speakers of Dutch, French and multiple other  languages
  • I have lived in the UK and in the USA
  • Native-speaker level of English
  • Experience of acting and of voice acting in English
  • I have published three books about English (cf. below)
  • Native speaker of Dutch, private tutor for Dutch since 2013
  • Experience of teaching Dutch to speakers of French, English, German, Slovak and Spanish
  • Experience of teaching contrastive grammar English-Dutch

PhD dissertation, 1993

Pronunciation Guide, 2017