Lies Sercu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lies Sercu plays a role.
2015 The impact of PPP and TBLT on Vietnamese students’ writing performance and self-regulatory writing strategies ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:1, pp. 37–93 | Article
While the available research literature appears to support the implementation of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in Western countries, few studies have been conducted to investigate its impact on classroom practice in Asia, especially in comparison with the presentation-practice-production… read more
2014 Raters’ social considerations in the essay rating process: The case of Chinese assessors of high-stake exam essays written in English Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 3:1, pp. 101–108 | Article
The social cognitive view on essay rating process argues that human essay rating is constrained by a series of the measures issued by the test institution. However, studies of the institutional constraints all focused on text quality relevant factors interfering into the rating process. Text… read more
2006 Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence Teaching. Are they in Favour or Against It? Results from an International Investigation ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 151, pp. 15–31 | Article
Foreign language curricula now frequently require foreign language teachers to integrate intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. This study's objective was to investigate whether and to what extent foreign language teachers support this new objective. To that aim, an… read more
2006 The Effect of Task Complexity and Task Conditions on Foreign Language Development and Performance. Three Empirical Studies. Task-Based Language Teaching, Van den Branden, Kris and Machteld Verhelst (eds.), pp. 55–84 | Article
It has been argued that tasks constitute a valid alternative unit to sequence the language learning process, as opposed to linguistically defined syllabuses. Implementing this claim presupposes that it is possible to assess the cognitive and linguistic demands of tasks, so that they can be… read more
2003 Review of Bax, M. & J.-W. Zwart, (eds) (2001) ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 141/142, pp. 345–350 | Review