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Interactions between formal distance and participant-related variables in receptive multilingualism

Vanhove, Jan ; Berthele, Raphael

In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2017, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 23-40

Université de Fribourg

Collinearity isn't a disease that needs curing

Vanhove, Jan

In: Meta-Psychology, 2021, vol. 5, p. 1-11

Once they have learnt about the effects of collinearity on the output of multiple regression models, researchers may unduly worry about these and resort to (sometimes dubious) modelling techniques to mitigate them. I argue that, to the extent that problems occur in the presence of collinearity, they are not caused by it but rather by common mental shortcuts that researchers take when...

Université de Fribourg

Capitalising on covariates in cluster-randomised experiments

Vanhove, Jan

In: PyArXiv, 2020, p. 1-45

In cluster-randomised experiments, participants are randomly assigned to the conditions not on an individual basis but in entire groups. For instance, all pupils in a class are assigned to the same condition. This article reports on a series of simulations that were run to determine (1) how the clusters (e.g., classes) in such experiments should be assigned to the conditions if a relevant...

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Towards simpler and more transparent quantitative research reports

Vanhove, Jan

In: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics

The average quantitative research report in applied linguistics is needlessly complicated. Articles with over fifty hypothesis tests are no exception, but despite such an onslaught of numbers, the patterns in the data often remain opaque to readers well-versed in quantitative methods, not to mention to colleagues, students, and non-academics without years of experience in navigating results...

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Langue d’origine et langue de scolarisation : dans quelle mesure les compétences en littéracie sont-elles transférables ? : Une synthèse = Herkunftssprache und Schulsprache: sind Literalitätskompetenzen übertragbar?: Das Wichtigste in Kürze

Lambelet, Amelia ; Berthele, Raphael ; Vanhove, Jan ; Desgrippes, Magalie ; Pestana, Carlos ; Decandio, Fabricio

(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)

Le projet Langue d’origine et langue de scolarisation : dans quelle mesure les compétences en littéracie sont-elles transférables ? (HELASCOT) s’intéresse au développement langagier d’enfants issus de la migration portugaise en Suisse. Il porte en particulier sur les compétences en littéracie (compréhension et production écrites) de ces enfants dans leur langue d’origine...

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Metalinguistic knowledge about the native language and language transfer in gender assignment

Vanhove, Jan

In: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 397-419

Whereas Standard Dutch only distinguishes between two adnominal grammatical genders, substandard varieties of Belgian Dutch distinguish between three such genders. German, too, distinguishes between three genders. Nevertheless, when assigning gender to German nouns with Dutch cognates, speakers of Belgian Dutch are strongly influenced by Standard Dutch gender but to a much lesser degree (if at...

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The lifespan development of cognate guessing skills in an unknown related language

Vanhove, Jan ; Berthele, Raphael

In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2015, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 1-38

Université de Fribourg

When labeling L2 users as nativelike or not, consider classification errors

Vanhove, Jan

In: Second Language Research

Researchers commonly estimate the prevalence of nativelikeness among second-language learners by assessing how many of them perform similarly to a sample of native speakers on one or several linguistic tasks. Even when the native (L1) samples and second-language (L2) samples are comparable in terms of age, socio-economic status, educational background and the like, these nativelikeness estimates...

Université de Fribourg

Predicting perceptions of the lexical richness of short French, German, and Portuguese texts using text-based indices

Vanhove, Jan ; Bonvin, Audrey ; Lambelet, Amelia ; Berthele, Raphael

In: Journal of Writing Research, 2019, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 499-525

We investigated how well readers’ perceptions of the lexical richness of short texts can be predicted on the basis of automatically computable indices of the texts’ lexical properties. 3,060 French, German and Portuguese texts (between 9 and 284 words long) written by 8- to 10-year-olds were rated for their lexical richness by between 3 and 18 uninstructed raters, and over 150 indices were...