Henrichs, Lotte

Contact

• Address:
  Lotte Henrichs 
  Second Language Acquisition
  Faculty of Humanities
  University of Amsterdam
  Spuistraat 210
  1012 VT Amsterdam
  The Netherlands
• Telephone:
  +31-20-525-3805
• Fax:
  +31-20-525-4429
• E-mail:
  l.henrichs@uva.nl
  

Research topics

1. The development and co-construction of academic language in Dutch 3 –6 year old children from low-SES families, in communicative contexts at home and at school.
   My PhD project will be part of a collaboration between the Universities of Utrecht, Tilburg and Amsterdam. Together we are investigating the development of academic language in Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan-Berber children. My focus is on the Dutch children. During a 4-year period, approximately 20 families will be followed. I am interested in the following questions:
   1. How does academic language develop, in terms of lexical, morphosyntactic and text-organisational structures?
   2. What are the linguistic features of language input at school and at home, and what is the influence of this input on the development of academic language?
   3. Which differences exist between various genres and language-use between parents and teachers?
   This PhD project is supervised by Dr. J.J.M. Schoonen and the new professor of Dutch as a Second Language.