Steven Delarue

I'm a PhD researcher at the Linguistics Department of Ghent University. Since 2010, I'm studying language use, language perceptions and language ideologies of Flemish teachers in primary and secondary schools. Which (Dutch) language features do teachers use? Is there code switching (between Standard Dutch and vernacular or dialect), and what triggers those switches? How do teachers envision their language use and the official language ideologies in Flanders? How do they interpret and/or appropriate Flemish language-in-education policy? And how can an adequate language-in-education policy meet the (often language-related) challenges teachers experience in the classroom every single day? These are all fascinating questions I hope to answer during my PhD research project (2010-2016).

Research topics: language ideology, language-in-education policy, educational sociology, ethnography (of education), social anthropology and sociolinguistics in general.