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Marjolijn Verspoor is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and works primarily within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science. Their research interests span a range of interconnected subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Literary Theory, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main research topics focus on Second Language Acquisition and Learning, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Text Readability and Simplification, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, as well as Speech and Dialogue Systems.

Marjolijn Verspoor has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "MEASURING LONGITUDINAL WRITING DEVELOPMENT USING INDICES OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND SOPHISTICATION" (2020) in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • "Learning an L2 and L3 at the same time: help or hinder?" (2020) in International Journal of Multilingualism
  • "Measures of variability in transitional phases in second language development" (2021) in IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
  • "Mandarin vocabulary growth, teacher qualifications and teacher talk in child heritage language learners" (2020) in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  • "Variability as normal as apple pie" (2021) in Linguistics Vanguard

Their authorship also includes several books published by well-known academic presses, such as "Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition" (2020) published by Cambridge University Press, "English Sentence Constructions" (2022) from John Benjamins Publishing Company, and "Learning Russian Through Films," which is slated for publication by University of Groningen Press in 2025.

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Rasmus Steinkrauss
  • Wander Lowie
  • Bert Le Bruyn
  • Ting Huang
  • Kees de Bot

Marjolijn Verspoor's work appears regularly in specialized academic venues, with multiple publications in journals such as System, Journal of the European Second Language Association, Language Learning, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Best Publications

  • A Dynamic Systems Theory approach to second language acquisition

    Kees De Bot;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Cognitive Exploration Of Language And Linguistics

    René Dirven;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book

    Kees de Bot;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Variability in Second Language Development from a Dynamic Systems Perspective

    Marjolijn Verspoor;Wander Lowie;Marijn van Dijk

  • A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques.

    Marjolijn Verspoor;K. de Bot;Wander Lowie

  • A dynamic usage based perspective on L2 writing

    Marjolijn Verspoor;Marjolijn Verspoor;Monika S. Schmid;Xiaoyan Xu

  • Dynamic Patterns in Development of Accuracy and Complexity: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Acquisition of Finnish

    Marianne Spoelman;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Making sense of polysemous words

    Marjolijn Verspoor;Wander Lowie

  • Individual Differences and the Ergodicity Problem

    Wander M. Lowie;Marjolijn H. Verspoor;Marjolijn H. Verspoor

  • Variability and Variation in Second Language Acquisition Orders: A Dynamic Reevaluation

    Wander Lowie;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Explorations in linguistic relativity

    Martin Pütz;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Dynamic systems theory as a comprehensive theory of second language development.

    K. de Bot;W.M. Lowie;Steven Thorne;M.H. Verspoor

  • English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course

    Marjolijn Henriëtte Verspoor;Kim Sauter

  • Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

    René Dirven;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Dynamic systems theory and a usage based approach to second language development

    Marjolijn H. Verspoor;Heike Behrens

  • Dynamic Systems Theory and Applied Linguistics: the ultimate “so what”?

    de Cornelis Bot;Marjolijn Verspoor;Wander Lowie

  • The effects of English bilingual education in the Netherlands

    Marjolijn Verspoor;Cornelis de Bot;Xiaoyan Xu

  • A dynamic view as a complementary perspective

    de Cornelis Bot;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Frequency and function in WH question acquisition. A usage-based case study of German L1 acquisition

    C.L.J. (Kees) de Bot;M.H. (Marjolijn) Verspoor;R.G.A. Steinkrauss

  • Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning

    Marjolijn Verspoor;K Dong Lee;E Sweetser

  • Chapter 7. Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 pedagogy: Lessons to be learned

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  • Chapter 10. Dynamic Systems Theory as a comprehensive theory of second language development

    Kees de Bot;Wander Lowie;Steven L. Thorne;Marjolijn Verspoor

  • Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

    Marjolijn Verspoor

Frequent Co-Authors

Kees de Bot
Kees de Bot University of Groningen
René Dirven
René Dirven University of Duisburg-Essen
Steven L. Thorne
Steven L. Thorne Portland State University
Norbert Schmitt
Norbert Schmitt University of Nottingham
Eve Sweetser
Eve Sweetser University of California, Berkeley
Scott A. Crossley
Scott A. Crossley Vanderbilt University

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