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Dr. M.C.J. (Merel) Keijzer

Merel Keijzer

Langs de Erven 2139613 AW MeerstadD.O.B: 17 April 1980

Place of birth: Wageningen, the NetherlandsMarried to: Tom Spits

Children: Christopher Romijn Spits (14/02/2010) & Olivier Daniël Spits (14/02/2010)T: + 31 50-851 3829

Cell: + 31 6-16706971E: [email protected]

W: http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.c.j.keijzer/Orchid ID: 0000-0001-9041-8563

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Education

Oct 2016 Media Training Course Hakuna Matata Science and Media

Apr 2016 Academic leadership and management skills training program (intensive 4-day training program)

Hfp Consulting, Heidelberg

Jan 2016 Introduction to linear mixed-effects regression (LMER) and generalized additive modeling (GAM) for (psycho)linguists

Staff and graduate students course Groningen Center for Language and Cognition (taught by Dr. Martijn Wieling)

Sep – Oct 2014 Coaching PhD Students Talent Development – University of Groningen

Feb – July 2014 Training in Event-related potential techniques and course

The Bilingualism and Language Development Lab – The Pennsylvania State University

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Feb – May 2014 Statistical Analysis of fMRI data John Hopkins University – Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jan – May 2014 Introduction to functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The Pennsylvania State University – Graduate school of biological engineering

Oct 2008 – May 2010

Academic Teaching Qualification (BKO)

Utrecht University

June 2008 Workshop ‘Lecturing large groups’ Delft University of Technology

Sept – Dec 2004 Basic Principles of Academic Teaching Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2002 - 2006 Doctoral degree Linguistics

Dissertation: First in last out? An investigation of the regression hypothesis in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1998 – 2002 Doctorate English Language and Culture (with distinction)

Thesis: Investigating ‘Remedioom’ as a remedy: the effects of a visually oriented computer-based intervention program on the English spelling skills of Dutch dyslexic or poor spellers in secondary education


1992 – 1998 Grammar school Johannes Calvijn Lyceum, Kampen

Academic employment

Current position

2019 - present Full Professor of English Linguistics/Rosalind Franklin Fellow 1.0 fte: 4.0 research; 6.0 teaching and administrative duties

Groningen Center for Language and Cognition –Faculty of Arts –University of Groningen

Previous positions

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2017- 2018 Associate Professor ofApplied Linguistics/ Rosalind Franklin Fellow 0.8 fte: 3.2 research; 4.8 teaching


2013 - present Assistant Professor ofApplied Linguistics/ Rosalind Franklin Fellow 1.0 fte: 0.4 research; 0.6 teaching


2010 – 2014 Postdoctoral researcherVENI grant1.0 fte: 1.0 research

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics- UiL OTS

2008 – 2013 Assistant ProfessorEnglish Language and Culture 1.0 fte: 0.4 research; 0.6 teaching

Utrecht University

2006 – 2008 Assistant ProfessorEnglish as a Foreign Language1.0 fte: 0.2 research; 0.8 teaching

Delft University of Technology

2002 – 2006 PhD researcherEnglish Language and Culture1.0 fte: 0.75 research; 0.25 teaching


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Research statement

I am a second language development and bilingualism researcher. More specifically, I look at the learning and teaching of English as a second language across the lifespan, both in terms of teaching methods and language learning outcomes but also the cognitive effects that ensue from it. I look at early English introductory programs at primary school level; (optimal) second language learning and teaching methods at secondary and tertiary level and foreign and second language attrition and retention. When a new language is learned, it exerts an influence on earlier learned languages. In my research I therefore also look at first language attrition and the cognitive effects that accompany the conflict resolution resulting rom language competition. Since 2018, I have been the PI of the Bilingualism and Aging Lab (BALAB), which focuses on bilingualism studies in older adults, most notably the effects of introducing a bilingual experience later in life: what are the cognitive and social effects of teaching older adults a new language? My research is not only applied in the societal relevance it carries, but also in that it applies insights from an array of disciplines: linguistics, cognitive psychology, cognitive aging, neuroscience, medical sciences, and second and foreign language pedagogy.

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Number of peer-reviewed journal publications: 25Number of peer-reviewed edited volume contributions: 10Number of books or edited volumes: 6

In preparation *Keijzer, M. (in prep). Language reversion in elderly immigrants. Applied Linguistics. *Keijzer, M., & Kootstra, G-J (in prep). The relation between code-switching and

inhibitory control in Dutch-English elderly bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Bree, E., Keijzer, M., & Hoeijmakers, M. (in prep). English spelling production and selection of L1 Dutch university majors of English. Journal of Reading and Writing

Chepela, M., & Keijzer, M. (in prep). The formation of lexical memories in a second language. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Under revisionSolanki, M. & Keijzer, M. (under revision). Two peas in a pod…or not? Investigating

L1 English lexical and phonetic attrition effects in monozygotic twin sisters. European Journal of Applied Linguistics

Pochynok, A. & Keijzer, M. (under revision). (Early) practice makes perfect? Improving input in early English programs to promote L2 production skills. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.

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White, Y., & Keijzer, M. (under revision). Is there a bidialectal cognitive advantage? The effect of typological linguistic distance on inhibitory control, set shifting and working memory. Taal en Tongval.

Under reviewVerspoor, M., Irshad, M., Keijzer, M., & Wieling, M. (submitted). Effectiveness of a

dynamic usage-based computer-assisted language learning program. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.

*Boon, N.A., Keijzer, M., & de Rooij, S. (submitted). Healthy aging and lexical retrieval: Geriatric patients‘ performance on verbal fluency tests. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.

Keijzer, M., & van den Doel, W.Z. (submitted). Lay perceptions of speech in long-term Dutch immigrants in Anglophone Canada. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.

2019Keijzer, M. (invited contribution expected to be published mid 2019). L1 attrition in

the 21st century: how continued L1 contact in the digital age fuels language attrition theorizing. In Adamou, E., & Matras, Y. (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. London: Routledge.

Köpke, B, & Keijzer, M. (2019). Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to language attrition. In Schmid, M.S., & Köpke, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Language Attrition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2018Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (invited contribution expected to be published end 2018).

Contexts associated with the un-learning of languages across the lifespan. In: Ortega, L. & de Houwer, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Bilingualism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Vandeweerd, N. & Keijzer, M. (in press). J’ai l’ impression que: Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics.

*Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2018). Intensity of multilingual language use predicts cognitive performance of in some multilingualolder adults. Brain Sciences, 8(5), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci8050092.

* Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). The language barrier in migrant aging. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2018.1435627

Keijzer, M. (2018). The relevance of L1 attrition to usage-based theories of language development. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7(6), 715-718, DOI: https//doi.org/10.1075/lab.00011,kei .

2017*Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2017). Do low L2 abilities impede healthy aging

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for migrant older adults in the Netherlands? Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(1), 111-122.

*Keijzer, M. & Schmid, M.S. (2017). Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals. In Bialystok, E., & Sullivan, M. (Eds.), Bilingualism and Aging (pp.77-98). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.53.05kei.

Jin, X., de Bot, K. & Keijzer, M. (2017). Affective and situational correlates of foreign language proficiency: A study of Chinese university learners of English and Japanese. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 7(1), 105-126.

*Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2017). Enhancing language awareness in migrants‘ third age to promote wellbeing. In: Gabryś-Barker, D. (Ed.), Third Age Learners of Foreign Lanugages. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

2016Jin, Y.X., de Bot, K. & Keijzer, M. (2016). Affective and situational correlates of

foreign language proficiency: A study of Chinese university learners of English and Japanese. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching.

*Keijzer, M. & Schmid, M.S. (2016). Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals. In Aging and Bilingualism. Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6 (1/2), Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan. (pp. 64–85).

2015Yin, X., de Bot, K. & Keijzer, M. (2015). Factors associated with foreign language

anxiety. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 66-84.Yin, X., de Bot, K. & Keijzer, M. (2015). The anxiety-proficiency relationship and the

stability of anxiety: The case of Chinese university learners of English and Japanese. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 5(1), 41-64.

2014Keijzer, M.C.J. (2014). Changes in neural activation patterns and brain anatomy as a

function of non-pathological first language attrition. Journal of Neurological Disorders, 2(4), doi: 10.4172/2329-6895.1000171.

2013*Keijzer, M.C.J. (2013). Working memory capacity, inhibitory control and the role of

L2 proficiency in aging L1 Dutch-English speakers of near-native L2 English. Brain Sciences (Special Issue: Brain & Language), 3, 1261-1281; doi: 10.3390/brainsci3031261.

Hoeijmakers, M.J.H., de Bree, E.H. & Keijzer, M.C.J. (2013). English spelling performance of Dutch grammar school students of derived and base targets. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2(2), 152 – 169.

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2012Keijzer, M.C.J. (2012). Kun je je moedertaal verliezen? In M. Boogaard (Ed.),

Taalcanon. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Meulenhoff. De Jong, N., Juffermans, K., Keijzer, M. & Rasier, L. (2012). Papers of the 2012 Anela

Applied Linguistics Conference. Delft: Eburon.

2011Keijzer, M.C.J. (2011). Language in the brain: a review. Journal of Neurolinguistics,

24(3), 397-400. Keijzer, M.C.J. (2011). Language reversion versus general cognitive decline: Towards

a new taxonomy of language change in elderly bilingual immigrants. In M.S. Schmid & W. Lowie (Eds.), Modeling Bilingualism: From structure to chaos (pp. 221-232). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2010Keijzer, M.C.J. (2010). First Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition:

Parallels and divergences. Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishers.*Keijzer, M.C.J. (2010). The regression hypothesis as a theoretical framework for

first language attrition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13(1), 9-18.

2009Backus, A., Keijzer, M.C.J., Weltens, B. & Vedder, I. (2009). Anéla Conferentie 2009.

Delft: Eburon. Keijzer, M.C.J. (2009). A cognitive approach to the mirror symmetries in language

acquisition and language attrition. In M. Pütz & L. Sicola (Eds.), Cognitive Processing and Second Language Acquisition (pp. 227-239). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

*Schmid, M.S. & Keijzer, M.C.J. (2009). First language attrition and reversion among older migrants. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2009(200), 83-101.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2009). Language attrition in first-generation Dutch migrants in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, XXX(ii Fall), 1-8.

2008Keijzer, M.C.J. (2008). Language attrition in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada:

Internally or externally-induced change? In M. van Koppen & B. Botma (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands (pp. 97-108). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2008). Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts: a review. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 11(3-4), 515-518.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2008). A usage-based approach to the mirror symmetries in language acquisition and language attrition. In Proceedings of the 33rd International LAUD Symposium: Cognitive approaches to second/foreign language processing: Theory and Pedagogy (pp. 300-318). Essen: LAUD.

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2007*Keijzer, M.C.J. (2007). Last in First out? An investigation of the regression

hypothesis in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada. Utrecht: LOT dissertation series no. 163.

*Köpke, B., Schmid, M.S., Keijzer, M. & Dostert, S. (Eds.) (2007). Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2007). Last in first out? An investigation of the regression hypothesis in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 78(2), 131-140.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2007). Is taalverlies het spiegelbeeld van taalverwerving? Over Taal: Tijdschrift over Taal, Tekst en Communicatie, 46(4), 90-92.

2005Keijzer, M.C.J. & Schmid, M.S. (2005). Building language attrition research.

Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 74(2), 201-207.

2004*Schmid, M.S., Köpke, B., Keijzer, M.C.J. & Weilemar, L. (Eds.) (2004). First Language

Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

*Keijzer, M.C.J. (2004). First language attrition: A cross-linguistic investigation of Jakobson’s regression hypothesis. International Journal of Bilingualism, 8(3), 398-394.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2004). The role of second language acquisition in first language attrition. Bilingual Basics, 6(2).: <http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/article.asp?vid=163&DID=3084&sid=1&cid=736&iid=3079&nid=3077>

2003Keijzer, M.C.J. (2003). Remedioom als Remedie: Het effect van een visueel ingesteld

remediërend computerprogramma op de Engelse spellingvaardigheid van leerlingen in het voortgezet onderwijs. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 69(1), 79-89.

2002Keijzer, M.C.J. (2002). Remedioom als Remedie. Tijdschrift voor Remedial Teachers,

10, 27-31.

Selected paper presentations

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Invited talks and plenary conference addresses09-2019 Old-age language learning Approaches to Language,

Migration, and Identity (AMLI 2019).University of Essen, Germany

05-2017 Bilingualism in older adulthood University of Münster, Germany

04-2017 Language learning never gets old: how bilingualism sculpts aging

Anéla Junior Researchers Meeting: keynote address

02-2017 Bilingualism and Healthy Aging MehrsprachigkeitskolloquiumUniversity of Dortmund

10-2016 Language attrition: the where and how of a research topic

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

07-2016 Aging attriters: how methodological challenges can help construct bilingual theories

3rd International Conference on First Language Attrition: keynote address.University of Essex, UK

03-2016 Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals

Amsterdam Center for Language and Cognition (ACLC) lecture series

04-2015 Language Attrition: where are we and where are we going?

Language Attrition SymposiumRadboud University Nijmegen

12-2014 A hole in my brain where my mother tongue used to be: A cognitive approach to first language attrition

English Language and Literature department Research Seminar SeriesUniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland

09-2014 Are good learners also good forgetters? A retrieval-induced forgetting perspective of L1 attrition in an L2 immersed context

Language development across the lifespan (LANSPAN) lecture seriesUniversity of Groningen

09-2013 Language and cognitive control in late Dutch-English bilinguals and Dutch-Low Saxon bidialectals

Center for Language Science Distinguished Lecture SeriesThe Pennsylvania State University

06-2013 Language dominance shifts among elderly Dutch-English late bilinguals and the role of cognitive control

Languages in Contact (LINC) Symposium Radboud University Nijmegen

05-2004 From theory to method: translating a theoretical research base to an

Labaratoire Jacques Lordat, Toulouse –

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Applied research design Neurolinguistics section04-2004 Markedness theory and

underspecification applied to first language attrition data

University of Western Ontario, Canada – General Linguistics Department

02-2004 The study of first language attrition: a review and a look to the future

University of Western Ontario, Canada – Applied Linguistics Department

Selected conference papers12-2018 Conference on Multilingualism

(COM2018)

The linguistic and neural effects or short-term novel language learning: the role of exposureCo-authors: Dr.Eleonora Rossi, Prof. Judith Kroll, Isabel Eyer, & Floor van den Berg

Ghent University, Belgium

09-2018 Cognitive Neuroscience of Second and Artificial Language Learning (CoNSALL)

Foreign language training in seniors to prevent old-age disordersCo-authors: Saskia Nijmeijer Msc & Dr. Marie-José van Tol

Bangor University, UK

06-2018 Anéla Conference

Implicit versus explicit approaches to second and foreign languae teaching (colloquium organizer together with Prof. Marjolijn

Egmond aan Zee

03-2018 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

Implicit versus explicit approaches to second and foreign language teaching (colloquium organizer together with Prof. Marjolijn Verspoor)

Chicago, Illinois, USA

06-2017 Bi/Multiligualism and the declining brain workshop

Learning to preserve: foreign language therapy as a cognitive vaccine to prevent old-age disorders

University of Reading, UK


First language reversion among older healthy migrants: fact or fable?

Portland, Oregon, USA

09-2016 Conference on Multilingualism (COM) 2016

How new words become memories.

Ghent University,Belgium

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Lexicalization in the L1 and L2 compared


How new L2 words (don’t) become memories. Lexicalization in advanced L1 Dutch learners of L2 English

Orlando, Florida, USA

10-2015 Workshop on Multilingualism across the lifespan: contact, mobility and learning

Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals

Ghent UniversityBelgium

09-2015 AILA Europe Meeting

From emigrant to expat: changed perspectives on first language attrition in a digital era

Winterthur, Switzerland

05-2015 Anéla Conference

Code-switching patterns among late Dutch-English bilinguals related to executive control functions

Egmond aan Zee, Nederland

03-2014 Georgetown Roundtable in Linguistics (GURT): Usage-based approaches to language, language learning, and multilingualism

Colloquium organizer: Bilingual language use: consequences for usage-based theories of language development

Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

10-2013 Cognitive Brownbag Lecture Series

Working memory and inhibitory control in older bilingual speakers: intrusion errors in the Reading Span Task

The Pennsylvania State University, State College PA, USA

05-2013 International Workshop on Bilingualism and Cognitive Control

Bilingual language and cognitive control in ‘youngest old’ and ‘oldest old’ late Dutch-English bilinguals

Jagiellonski University Krakow, Poland

06-2011 8th International Symposium on Bilingualism

University of Oslo, Norway

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Using insights from cognitive aging to re-evaluate language reversion in elderly bilingual immigrants

07-2009 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism

Language reversal in healthy, aging Dutch immigrants in Australia

Utrecht University, the Netherlands

03-2009 Georgetown Roundtable in Linguistics (GURT): Implicit and explicit conditions, processes, and knowledge in SLA and bilingualism

Language change in elderly Dutch immigrants in Australia: language reversal or reduced cognitive control?

Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

09-2008 18th European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) Conference

Reduced redundancy in non-native English lecturers at tertiary institutions

Université Aix-en-Provende, France

03-2007 33rd International LAUD Symposium

Cognitive approaches to the mirror symmetries in language acquisition and language attrition

Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany

08-2005 2nd International Conference on First Language Attrition

First in last out? First language attrition research and Jakobson’s regression hypothesis

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

09-2004 14th European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) Conference

First language attrition research and its methodology

San Sebastian University, Spain

Stipendia and awards

2018 VIDI innovation scheme NWO - –Dutch Organization for Scientific ResearchLanguage learning never gets old: Foreign language learning as a tool

€800,000

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to promote healthy aging2017 Awarded Young Academy of

Groningen PhD stipendLearning to preserve: foreign language therapy as a cognitive vaccine to prevent old-age disorders?

€115,200

2017 Selected as founding member of the Young Arts Researchers Network (YARN), University of Groningen

2016 Selected as member of De Jonge Akademie by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences

2016 Selected as founding member of the Young Academy of Groningen

2014 Co-applicant Seminar Series Grant for seminar series on first language attritionEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK

£30,000

2014 Workshop FundEuropean Association for Second Language Acquisition(EUROSLA)

€750

2014 CongressubsidiefondsCenter for Language and Communication (CLCG) Groningen

€2000

2014 CongressubsidiefondsKNAW

€6000

2014 Named affiliate at the Center for Language Science at the Pennsylvania State University

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2013 Rosalind Franklin FellowshipUniversity of Groningen

€266,500

2013-2014 Open Access Stimulation FundNWO –Dutch Organization for Scientific Research

€350

2009 VENI innovation schemeNWO –Dutch Organization for Scientific Research Crossing communication borders: first language reversion in healthy, aging Dutch immigrants in Australia

€ 250,000

2005 Best poster presentationAnélà – Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics

Book prize

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2004 Travel and research grantVSB Fund € 3200

2004 Travel and research grantPhD Fund - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

€ 2000

2003 Travel grantVU Fund – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

€ 600

2002 Nominated MA thesis awardAnélà – Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics

International

Extended stays abroad2013-2014 Visiting research fellow Center for Language Science /

Bilingualism and Language Development LabThe Pennsylvania State University, USA

Dec 2011 – Feb 2012

Visiting research fellow School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Monash University Melbourne, Australia

Jan – May 2004 Visiting researcher and lecturer

Department of EducationUniversity of Western Ontario, Canada

2000 Erasmus exchange student Department of Linguistics University College of Ripon and York St. John, UK

International collaboration 2013 – present Dr. Eleonori Rossi

Pomona CollegeProf. Judy KrollUniversity of California Riverside

- Joint research project on novel L2 word learning and consolidation

- PIRE project (Partnerships for International Research and Education)

2002 – 2007 Among others:Prof. Dr. Monika SchmidRijksuniversiteit GroningenProf. Dr. Kees de BotRijksuniversiteit GroningenConny Opitz MATrinity College DublinEsther de Leeuw MAUniversity of LondonSusan Dostert MA

International Graduate Network of Language Attrition Researchers

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Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Academic activities and service

Research and teaching group coordination – institutional responsibilities 2019 – present Network partner of the

Platform voor de Talen (Languages Platform) intended to provide a new impetus to university language degree programs

Platform voor de Talen

2019 – present Examiner in the certification process of Bilingual Education schools within the TTO Network in the Netherlands

NufficThe Netherlands Association for the Internationalization of Education

2018 – present Initiator and PI of Bilingualism and Aging Lab (BALAB)

Center for Language and CognitionUniversity of Groningen

Dec 2015 – Feb 2016

Chair of the BCN Dissertation Award committee

Research School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience (BCN)

2015 – present Principal Investigator research project cognitive predictors of reading and spelling abilities in the L1 and L2 among 140 Dutch MBO students (collaboration Dr. Elise de Bree, University of Amsterdam, and Alfa College Groningen)

Department of Applied LinguisticsUniversity of Groningen

2013-2018 MA thesis coordinator Department of Applied LinguisticsUniversity of Groningen

2013-2014 Co-initiator reorganization minor modules in Applied Linguistics

Department of Applied Linguistics University of Groningen

2012 – 2013 Coordinator new BA curriculum writing proficiency and academic vocabulary development

Department of English Language and CultureUtrecht University

2012 – 2013 Initiator and member Language and Aging lab (collaboration Dr. Arnout

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL OTS)Utrecht University

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Koornneef, University Utrecht)

2012 - 2013 Coordinator and convener lab meetings

Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Utrecht (BIMU) research groupUtrecht University

2012 – 2013 BA thesis coordinator Department of English Language and CultureUtrecht University

2009 – 2010 Coordinator English language proficiency program

Department of English Language and CultureUtrecht University

International conference and workshop organization 2019 Organizer Symposium

Multilingual Aging: effects on cognition, wellbeing and health

30 January 2019 in Groningen

2017 Organizer Conference on Multilingualism (COM)2017

6-8 November 2017 in Groningen

2017 Main organizer Multilingualism winterschool

9-10 November 2017 in Groningen

2015 Main organizer Bilingualism and Cognitive Aging International Workshop

January 2015Het KasteelUniversity of Groningen

2012 7th Dutch Applied Linguistics Conference

Congrescentrum De Werelt, Lunteren, the Netherlands

2009 6th Dutch Applied Linguistics Conference

Rolduc, Kerkrade, the Netherlands

2005 2nd International Conference on First Language Attrition


2005 Annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse


2002 1ST International Conference on First Language Attrition


PhD supervision and defense committee membershipsSep 2018 onwards

Daily supervisor and promotorLanguage learning never gets old: implicit and explicit language learning in seniors

Mara van der PloegUniversity of Groningen

Sep 2017 – present

Daily supervisor and promotorIntroducing academic reading for English in Dutch pre-university education

Loes GroenUniversity of Groningen

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Oct 2017 – present

Daily supervisor and promotorLearning to preserve: foreign language therapy as a cognitive vaccine to prevent old-age disorders?

Saskia NijmeijerUniversity of Groningen

Jan 2016 – present

Daily supervisor and promotorAIM method and French production skills: a longitudinal study

Wim GombertUniversity of Groningen

November 2015 Member of PhD defense committee Bilingual Advantages in Middle-aged and Elderly Populations

Nienke HoutzagerUniversity of Groningen

June 2015 Member of PhD defense committee Scaffolding and cooperative learning: Effects on reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge in English as a foreign language

Sri WachyunniUniversity of Groningen

June 2015 Member of PhD defense committeeOpportunities to speak: A qualitative study of a second language in use

Kirsten L. KolstrupUniversity of Groningen

March 2015 Member PhD defense committee Belinda ChanUniversity of Groningen

2014 – present Daily supervisor and promotorCommunication never ages: language attrition and remediation in multilingual elderly – language choice and adapted language use

Anna PotUniversity of GroningenDissertation completedScheduled to defend 01/2019

2014 – present Daily supervisor and co-promotorForeign language anxiety in Chinese learners of Japanese and English

Yinxing JinUniversity of GroningenDefended 03/02/2016

2014-2015 Daily supervisor and co-promotorThe effectiveness of a Dynamic Usage-based (DUB) method of EFL learning: the case of Sri Lankan learners

Mufeeda IrshadUniversity of GroningenDefended 12/10/2015

April 2013 Member PhD defense committeeCross-linguistic interaction, lexical representation, and cognitive control in second language learners, bilinguals and trilinguals.

Gregory PoarchRadboud University Nijmegen

March 2013 – August 2013

Temporary supervision tasks PhD dissertation Factors affecting early foreign language learning in the Netherlands

Liv Persson

2011 Member PhD defense committeeAfter the fiesta is over: foreign language attrition of Spanish in Dutch and German Erasmus students

Teodora MehotchevaRijksuniversiteit Groningen

Panel work2018-2019 NWO Rubicon committee

Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW)

Panel member for three consecutive rounds

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Editorial workAd hoc Journal reviewer

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Journal of Neurolinguistics Language Cognitive Science Bilingualism: Language and

Cognition Dutch Journal of Applied

Linguistics Journal of Child Language Language Learning

Grant application reviewer Dutch Organization for

Scientific Research (NWO) innovation scheme (Veni, Vidi)

American National Science Foundation (NSF)

2018: three rounds Social Sciences and Humanities panel (SGW) NWO Rubicon scheme 2018

Conference submission reviewer Georgetown Roundtable in

Linguistics (GURT) EUROSLA

Board member academic organizations 2017-present Chair of the ‘Inhoud and

interdisciplinariteit’ (content and interdisciplinarity) working group of De Jonge Akademie (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences)

2017-2018 Vice-president of the Young Arts Researchers Network (YARN) at the University of Groningen

2017 Chair of the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize

2016-present Vice-president of the Young Academy Groningen

2014 – present Coordinator focus group

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Multilingualism in the U4 University Network

2013 – present President of Anélà(Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics)

2010 – 2013 General board member of Anélà(Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics)

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Teaching statement

I see university teaching to be inextricably linked to research: already at the BA level, students should see the research their lecturers do, to place their textbooks into perspective. I view teaching as fully on a par with research as to university staff’s premier tasks. In addition, being a female scientist, I am fully aware that I have a role model function for my female students and actively try to engage my most talented (female) students to become research assistants, on their way to becoming independent researchers themselves. Student evaluations for my courses are consistently good and I feel reflect my goal of constantly critically looking at and innovating existing courses, for instance by adding more recent research papers to the course readings list but also through constantly looking for new activating teaching methods. Holding the English linguistics chair of the English Language & Culture program, where most students initially opt for a literature path, I find it important to enthuse students for language science.

Academic courses (co-)developed and taught

June 2018 LOT summerschool State-of-the-art course: Language

attrition

National Graduate School Linguistics for PhD and Research MA students of Linguistics

2017-2018 MA Applied Linguistics Theory of second language

development (co-instructor: Prof. Wander Lowie)

University of Groningen

2017-2018 Research Master Language and Cognition

Language Development (co-instructor: Dr. Angeliek van Hout)


2017-2018 BA English Linguistics Research tools


2016-2017 BA English Linguistics BA English Linguistics thesis

workshops and supervision


2015-2016 MA Neurolinguistics Several guest lectures: Dyslexia

(course instructor: Prof. Ben Maassen)


2014-present MA Applied Linguistics: Teaching methodology and

second language development MA thesis writing workshops


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2014-present Applied Linguistics Minor: Second language development:

Language attrition Second language processing:

Experimental methods in psycholinguistics


June 2013 Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School

Seminar ‘The bilingualism effect and individual differences’

Panel discussion with other instructors: Albert Costa, Jubin Abutalebi and Walter van Heuven

Utrecht University

2008 – 2013 BA English Language and Culture Proficiency 1: written English Proficiency 2: spoken English Proficiency 3: accurate English Academic and research writing Thesis training Language development across

the lifespan

Utrecht University

2009 – 2010 Educational Master Language Learning

Utrecht University

2009 – 2010 Linguistics Master Language acquisition and

language attrition

Utrecht University

2009 – 2013 Research Master Linguistics Special topic course: first

language attrition Term paper course: second

language acquisition and the critical period

Linguistic rotation course: bilingualism and aging

Comparative Psycholinguistics

Utrecht University

2008 – 2010 BA Honors Liberal Arts and Sciences academic English for non-native

speakers academic English for native

speakers

University College Utrecht

2006 – 2008 Institute for Technology and Communication

Delft University of Technology

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Lower Intermediate English Upper Intermediate English Advanced English Academic writing (for PhD

students) Spoken English English pronunciation workshop English Admission (for staff

wishing to obtain C1 level) English Proficiency (for staff

wishing to obtain C2 level) Oral presentation skills

2002 – 2006 BA English Language and Culture andBA Applied Linguistics

Introduction to phonetics Language history and language

change Academic skills: oral presentation


2004 MA Education guest lecturer: first and second

language acquisition

University of Western Ontario, Canada

2004 MA General Linguistics guest lecturer: the foundations of

language

University of Western Ontario, Canada

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Knowledge valorization statement

I feel that as an applied linguist working on English linguistics I have the responsibility to share my research outcomes with as wide a range of audiences as possible and in that process make secondary school students choosing their tertiary education aware of the importance of language science and the modern foreign languages in general. My research topics are ideally suited for knowledge dissemination and directly touch societal issues: can you ever lose your mother tongue? Is earlier always better when it comes to English language education? What are the best ays to teach English at secondary school? What are the major challenges western society is facing the coming decades with an increasingly aging population, many speakers of whom have a culturally and linguistically diverse background? As such, I make a conscious effort to seek out opportunities such as radio and television appearances, but also enjoy smaller-scale activities, such as kitchen table conversations with the general public, pop-up lectures in the public sphere, and acting as knowledge consultant in various media. I carry out site visits to Bilingual program schools in the Netherlands as part of the accreditation process by Nuffic. Crucially, I often collaborate with the Scholierenacademie Groningen to engage in workshops aimed at secondary school students in the North.

Knowlegde valorization activities

2018: jury member of the LOT (Dutch national research school of linguistics) popularization award for linguistic reseaerch

12-2018: “Onderzoek naar denkvermogen: meedoen aan kerspuzzel Dr. Denker is goed voor de geest”. Newspaper article Dagblad van het Noorden

https://www.dvhn.nl/extra/Onderzoek-naar-denkvermogen-Meedoen-aan-kerstpuzzel-Dr.-Denker-is-goed-voor-de-geest-23957986.html

10-2018: “Happy Ageing”: science event about various aspect of aging, staged by the Scholierenacademie and targeted at pre-university secondary school children in the Groningen region: https://www.rug.nl/education/scholierenacademie/2018-2019/18-10-12-happy-ageing. 10-2018: “Zpannend Zernike”: science event staged for children aged 8-12:

https://www.zpannendzernike.nl/08-2018: “Veroudering hersenen tegengaan met tweetaligheid. BNR Nieuwsradio

https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/wetenschap-vandaag/10351590/veroudering-hersenen-tegengaan-met-tweetaligheid.

08-2018 to present: development team of “Expeditie Moendoes”, a digital game published by KNAW’s De Jonge Akademie and aimed at primary and secondary school children in the Netherlands to show them how doing science works.

06-2018: “je moedertaal verlies je niet?” Wetenschapsdate (gastles over een wetenschappelijk onderwerp op een middelbare school). Dr. Nassauschool, Assen.

06-2018: “Kan het spreken van een tweede taal ouderen helpen dementie tegen te gaan? RTV Noord radio: https://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/194937/Kan-het-spreken-van-een-tweede-taal-ouderen-helpen-dementie-tegen-te-gaan

04-2018: “Kennis is Koning” (Knowledge is King): science event staged for the children of Groningen during King’s day celebrations: https://www.rug.nl/news/2018/04/kennis-is-koning-bij-de-rug-op-

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https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/wetenschap-vandaag/10351590/veroudering-hersenen-tegengaan-met-tweetaligheid

https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/wetenschap-vandaag/10351590/veroudering-hersenen-tegengaan-met-tweetaligheid

https://www.rug.nl/education/scholierenacademie/2018-2019/18-10-12-happy-ageing

https://www.rug.nl/education/scholierenacademie/2018-2019/18-10-12-happy-ageing




_koningsdag201802-2018: “Experiment event”: science fair at the National Railway Museum.

Organized by the NS in collaboration with KNAW’s De Jonge Akademie: https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/nl/actueel/nieuws/de-jonge-akademie-op-experiment-event

09-2017: “Research minute video Merel Keijzer: Bilingualism and cognition”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIxrw_pObZw.

07-2017: “Vlog: Worden dialectsprekers gezonder oud?” Dagblad van het Noorden. http://www.dvhn.nl/groningen/Vlog-Worden-dialectsprekers-gezonder-oud-22328463.html

07-2016:: “Jonge academici krijgen stem”. Dagblad van het Noorden. https://www.dvhn.nl/groningen/Jonge-academici-krijgen-stem-21474343.html

06-2016: “Jong geleerd is oud gedaan? De cognitieve reserve van tweetalige sprekers” USVA at the Park festival lecture05-2016: “Ouder worden in een meertalige omgeving” Pub lecture Study Association Esperia (European Languages and Cultures; University of Groningen)02-2016: “Taalverwerving van Meerlingen” InfoMeerling website Nederlandse

Vereniging voor Ouders van Meerlingen (NVOM)10-06-2015: Optreden KNAW Jonge Akademie Keukentafelgesprekken over het

onderwerp taalverliesDe Nacht van Kunst en Wetenschap op 6 juni 2015 te Groningen06-2014: consultant for USA today: ‘Bowe Bergdahl: Could he have lost English

skills?’. USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/04/bowe-

bergdahl-english-language/9966809/.02-2014: ‘The bilingual cognitive advantage’. Dutch Courier (newspaper for the Dutch community in Australia)03-2014: ’Worden tweetaligen later dement?’ In: Waarom drinken we zoveel koffie – 101 slimme vragen (Eds: Sanne

Deurloo & Anne van Kessen): ISB: 978946156165703-2014: ’Worden tweetaligen later dement?’ www.kennislink.nl29-11-2012: Scientific quest what it means to be multilingual with Victoria

Koblenko. NTR TV: Pavlov. 04-06-2012: ‘Talenknobbel niets met taal te maken?’

Bessensap 201205-2012: ‘Successful aging and bilingualism’ (editorial piece)

http://www.growingupbilingual.org/?cat=109.01-2012: ‘Language reversion among Dutch immigrants in Australia’. ABC Radio

Australia – program Lingua Franca.http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/linguafranca/2012-02-04/38029682011-now: series of talks about language development in twins

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Ouders van Meerlingen (NVOM)09-2009: ‘Taalverlies in emigranten.’ TV appearance VARA’s De Wereld Draait

Door.http://dewerelddraaitdoor.vara.nl/media/64494

11-2008: ‘Als ik vanaf nu nooit meer Nederlands spreek en hoor, hoelang duurt het dan voordat ik deze taal verleerd ben?.’ Quest 101: Vraag en Antwoord 2008, pp. 72-73.

27-09-2007: ‘Sorry, ik spreak kein Nederlands meer.’ TV appearance RTL Nieuws, Editie NL:http://www.rtl.nl/(/actueel/editienl/)/components/actueel/editienl/2007/39/nederlands.xml.

22-09-2007: ‘Niemand raakt zijn moedertaal helemaal kwijt.’ Algemeen Dagblad, Plus katern.

17-09-2007: ‘Kun je je moedertaal vergeten?’ Radio appearance Tealac program Hoe?zo Radio:http://www.teleac.nl/radio/index.jsp?site=site_radio&nr=page_teleac_radio_zoek#.

15-09-2007: ‘Taalverlies bij Nederlanders in Canada.’ Radio appearance NCRV

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program Cappuccino. 15-09-2007: ‘Een klein raam heet in Canada een raamtje.’ De Volkskrant, Kennis

katern, p. 5. 14-09-2007: ‘Moedertaal verleer je bijna niet.’ Radio appearance Wereldomroep:

http://antilliaans.caribiana.nl/articlesbytag?tag=Merel-Keijzer.13-09-2007: ‘Moedertaal verleren vrijwel onmogelijk.’ Sp!ts, p. 7. 12-09-2007: ‘Het is bijna onmogelijk moedertaal te verleren.’ NU Wetenschap:

http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/1232839/het-is-bijna-onmogelijk-moedertaal-te-verleren.html.

06-09-2007: ‘Taalverlies als spiegel van taalverwerving.’ Kennislink: http://www.kennislink.nl/web/show?id=177353.

References

1. Prof. Dr. Wander LowieApplied LinguisticsFaculty of ArtsUniversity of GroningenOude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 269712 EK GroningenThe Netherlands T: + 31 50 363 [email protected]

Head of the Applied Linguistics Department

2. Prof. Dr. Gerry Wakker Ancient Greek LinguisticsFaculty of ArtsUniversity of GroningenOude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 269712 EK Groningenthe NetherlandT: 31 50 363 [email protected]

Dean of the Faculty of ArtsUniversity of Groningen

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Documents

Merel Keijzer - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen · Web viewKeijzer, M. (2017). Affective and situational correlates of foreign language proficiency: A study of Chinese university learners