Theo Bongaerts

Biographic Data

ID755330
NAMETheo Bongaerts
GIVEN NAMESTheo
FAMILY NAMEBongaerts
SIGNATUREBONGAERTS T
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0003-2411-1963
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Critical Period Claim Revisited

    Open AccessFrans Van Der Slik, Job Schepens et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2022References: 27

    A reanalysis of data drawn by Hartshorne, Tenenbaum, and Pinker (2018) from two-thirds of a million English speakers showed that their overall conclusion of one sharply defined critical age at 17.4 for all language learners is based on artificial results. We show that instead of a discontinuous exponential learning with sigmoidal decay (ELSD) model, a continuous ELSD model had a better fit when applied separately to monolinguals, bilinguals, and …

  • Perspectives on Foreign Language Policy

    Reyes I Fidalgo, Theo Bongaerts et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

    1. Preface 2. Foreign-Language Teaching Policy in the Netherlands 1800-1970: A Historical Outline (by Wilhelm, Frans) 3. The Task Force of the Dutch National Action Programme as an Instrument for Developing and Implementing Foreign-Language Policy (by Tuin, Dirk) 4. NAP as a Basis for a Coherent FLT Policy (by Renique, A.J.E.G.) 5. The Difficulty of Spanish for Dutch Learners (by Oud-de Glas, Maria) 6. Changing Target - Changing Tests (by Melse, …

  • Producing words in a foreign language

    Open AccessDaan Hermans, Theo Bongaerts et al.ARTICLEBilingualism Language and Cognition1998

    Two picture-word interference experiments were conducted to investigate whether or not words from a first and more dominant language are activated during lexical access in a foreign and less dominant language. Native speakers of Dutch were instructed to name pictures in their foreign language English. Our experiments show that the Dutch name of a picture is activated during initial stages of the process of lexical in English as a foreign language…

  • Age and Ultimate Attainment in the Pronunciation of a Foreign Language

    Open AccessTheo Bongaerts, Chantal van Summeren et al.ARTICLEStudies in Second Language…1997

    This paper reports on two studies that addressed the issue of ultimate attainment by late second language learners. The aim of the studies, which included a carefully screened group of highly successful Dutch learners of English in their designs, was to determine whether or not late second language learners who had achieved a nativelike performance in the pronunciation of a second language could be identified. Speech samples provided by two group…

  • Self-Repair in L1 and L2 Production

    Erna Van Hest, Nanda Poulisse et al.ARTICLEITL - International Journal of…1997

    In this article we will give an overview of the findings of L1 and L2 self-repair studies to date. A comparison between L1 and L2 self-repair research shows that, while L1 studies are firmly based in theory, most L2 studies are not. In order to contribute to theories and models of L2 production and acquisition, L2 self-repair studies will have to be more theory-driven than has been the case so far. Moreover, it is essential that large-scale inves…

  • First Language Use in Second Language Production

    Nanda Poulisse, Theo BongaertsARTICLEApplied Linguistics1994

    This article reports the results of a study undertaken to provide data relevant to the development of a model of bilingual speech production. The data which we used for this purpose are 771 unintentional language switches which occurred in a 35-hour corpus of L2 learner English collected from 45 Dutch learners at 3 different proficiency levels. The occurrence of the language switches turned out to be related to the learners' proficiency in Englis…

  • Report- Comola

    Open AccessMARGRIET JAGTMAN, M M Jagtman et al.ARTICLESecond language Research1994Cited by: 1

    In a recent contribution to Second Language Research, Pienemann (1992) described a computational system for the analysis of interlanguage data, termed COALA. In this report we will introduce another computer system for the analysis of L2 acquisition data, which has been developed independently. This system we have named COMOLA. This report contains: (1) a description of the COMOLA system, followed by an illustration of the type and scope of analy…

  • Communication Strategies in L1 and L2

    Theo Bongaerts, Nanda PoulisseARTICLEApplied Linguistics1989

    This paper sets out to explore similarities and differences in L1 and L2 referential communication. Some inadequacies in existing taxonomies of L2 communication strategies are pointed out and an alternative taxonomy is presented in which similar distinctions are proposed to the ones made in studies of L1 referential communication. An account of an experiment is given in which native speakers of Dutch had to describe, first in Dutch and then in En…

  • Language learners and their errors

    Open AccessTheo BongaertsARTICLESystem1984References: 1

  • The Comprehension of Three Complex English Structures by Dutch Learners1

    Open AccessTheo BongaertsARTICLELanguage Learning1983Cited by: 1References: 7

    This study investigated the comprehension of three complex English structures by Dutch learners at different levels of proficiency. The research was inspired by Carol Chomsky's investigations (1969, 1972) of English-speaking children's acquisition of complex English structures and by studies by d'Anglejan and Tucker (1975) and Cooper, Olshtain, Tucker, and Waterbury (1979) of the acquisition of such structures by adult learners with different LI …

  • Communicative language teaching

    Open AccessTheo BongaertsARTICLESystem1982Cited by: 6References: 3