Julie Deconinck

List of John Benjamins publications in which Julie Deconinck is involved.

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Pirker, Eva Ulrike and Julie Deconinck 2026 English moves: Hegemony, hybridity, and the (trans)portability of English in literature, translation, and beyond the page Trans(portable): English in the world, Deconinck, Julie and Eva Ulrike Pirker (eds.), pp. 111–135 | Article

As the world’s “hyper-central” language, English operates within asymmetrical structures of power while enabling processes of hybridization, adaptation, and contestation. Rather than a bounded, homogeneous system, English is a (trans)portable resource that circulates across linguistic, cultural,… read more

Deconinck, Julie, Frank Boers and June Eyckmans 2014 Looking for form-meaning motivation in new L2 words: A think-aloud study among proficient learners of English English Text Construction 7:2, pp. 249–280 | Article

In a previous, effect-of-instruction study (Deconinck et al. 2010), we reported on the benefits for word learning of an intervention which prompts learners to evaluate the extent to which a novel word’s meaning is congruent with its form. However, that study did not explore the nature of the… read more

Deconinck, Julie, Frank Boers and June Eyckmans 2010 Helping learners engage with L2 words: The form–meaning fit Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching, Littlemore, Jeannette and Constanze Juchem-Grundmann (eds.), pp. 95–114 | Article

The pace at which new words are acquired is influenced by the degree of engagement with them on the part of the learner. Insights from cognitive linguistics into the non-arbitrary aspects of vocabulary can be turned into stimuli for such engagement. The majority of Cognitive Linguists’ proposals… read more