Marjolijn Verspoor

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Marjolijn Verspoor
Verspoor in 2018.
Born (1952-03-11) 11 March 1952 (age 72)
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseKees de Bot
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSemantic Criteria in Complement Selection (1990)
WebsiteVerspoor on the website of the University of Groningen

Marjolijn Verspoor (born 1952) is a

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory 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

.

Career

Verspoor at the University of Vigo

Verspoor obtained her

University of Leiden in 1990. The title of her thesis was Semantic Criteria in Complement Selection.[citation needed
]

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.[citation needed]

Verspoor was appointed as a

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In 2009 she was nominated for the University of Groningen Best Lecturer Award 2009.[3]

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.[4]

In 2016 she was one of the keynote speakers at the EUROSLA26 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.[5]

In July 2020, a book, entitled Usage-based Dynamics in Second Language Acquisition, was published to honour her work in the field of applied linguistics. The book was edited by her colleagues at the University of Groningen, including Wander Lowie. Among the contributors there are Ronald Langacker, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Luke Harding and Kees de Bot.[6] The book was planned to be presented to her at the AILA conference in Groningen. However, the conference was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Works

Verspoor has published articles in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing,[7] The Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching Research, and Language Learning.[8]

In 2004 she wrote a seminal article along with

time-series data were used to explicate changes in the development of second language writing.[9]

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.[10]

In 2017 Verspoor's first article was published in which she and her colleagues applied the

Hidden Markov Model to simulate language development.[11]

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)[12]
  • Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics (1998)[13]
  • Explorations in Linguistic Relativity (2000)[14]
  • Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book (2005)[15]
  • A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques (2011)[16]

Articles

Top 5 articles based on Google scholar.:[17]

  • De Bot, K.; Lowie, W.; Verspoor, M. (2007). "A dynamic systems theory approach to second language acquisition".
    S2CID 33567516
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  • Verspoor, M.; Lowie, M.; van Dijk, M. (2008). "Variability in second language development from a dynamic systems perspective". .
  • Verspoor, M.; Lowie, W. (2003). "Making sense of polysemous words". .
  • Spoelman, M.; Verspoor, M. (2010). "Dynamic patterns in development of accuracy and complexity: A longitudinal case study in the acquisition of Finnish". .
  • Verspoor, M.; Schmid, M. (2012). "S., & Xu X. (2012). A dynamic usage based perspective on L2 writing". .

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