Notes on Contributors
Michelle Aldridge is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. Her research interests are in cognitive and forensic linguistics. She is collaborating with Lise Fontaine in the Cardiff Keystroke project and with the Cardiff Forensic linguistic team; her interest here is with the experiences of vulnerable witnesses (particularly children, rape victims and people with a disability) within the legal system. She is involved in police investigative interview training and has organized conferences in child language acquisition, forensic linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Contact: aldridgem@cardiff.ac.uk
Rui A. Alves is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Porto. His main research interests are the cognitive and affective processes in writing, which he studies using especially on-line methods and logging tools. He is also interested in literacy instruction, literacy development, and learning disorders. He serves in several editorial boards and is associate editor to the journals Reading & Writing and Culture & Education. Currently, he is also chair of the COST Action IS1401, European Literacy Network. Contact: ralves@fpce.up.pt
Veerle M. Baaijen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences and the Department of Dutch Language and Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her primary research interests include cognitive models of writing, writing-to-learn, cognitive processes in writing and text production processes. Other lines of research include literacy and writing education. Contact: v.m.baaijen@rug.nl
Hélène-Sarah Bécotte-Boutin is a Ph.D. candidate in applied mathematics at Polytechnique Montréal and holds a M.Sc. in business analytics from HEC Montréal. Her research interests include graph theory, mathematical modeling, data analysis and business analytics. She is a student of the GERAD research group since 2011 and of the research group TER s at Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ENS-CNRS) since 2013. Contact: Helene.Becotte@gerad.ca
Esther Odilia Breuer has been the head of the Centre for Writing Competency at the University of Cologne since 2007. Her focus in writing research lies on L2/FL writing, as well as on writing under specific cognitive conditions. Contact: ebreuer1@uni-koeln.de
Gilles Caporossi is holder of a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Polytechnique Montréal. Since 2003, he is professor at HEC Montréal in the department of decision sciences. His research interests include graph theory, algorithmic and artificial intelligence. He is member of the GERAD, group for research in decision analysis since 2004, of the international academy for mathematical chemistry since 2010 and he is was associated to the research group TER s at Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ENS-CNRS) in 2012. Contact: gilles.caporossi@hec.ca
Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Iowa State University. He works in the field of computer-assisted language learning. His research addresses the urgent societal need of improving language learning, teaching, and assessment practices by taking advantage of new technological opportunities. Contact: evgeny@iastate.edu
Lise Fontaine is a Reader in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy (ENCAP) at Cardiff University. She lectures mainly on functional grammar, word meaning, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Her research interests include functional grammar theory and, more specifically, the study of referring expressions and writing processes. She is the author of Analysing English Grammar: A systemic-functional introduction, CUP (2012) and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 2nd ed. OUP (2018). Together with Michelle Aldridge, she has set up the Cardiff Keystroke project which aims to better understand how typing influences writing processes. Contact: FontaineL@cardiff.ac.uk
Johan Frid is a researcher and developer in speech and language technology in the Lund University Humanities Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden. His primary focus is on the development of methods, resources and tools for computer-based language processing. Frid has extensive experience of working with linguistic data in combination with machine learning and is the main developer of the current version of ScriptLog, a tool for writing research. Contact: johan.frid@humlab.lu.se
David Galbraith is Associate Professor in Psychology in the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, UK. His main research interests are on the psychology of writing and the development of understanding through writing. This involves basic research into the cognitive and social processes involved in writing, and is focussed on the development of a dual-process model of writing. Insights from this model are applied to research into the teaching of writing; the use of writing as a tool for learning; the effects of dyslexia on writing; and the therapeutic effects of expressive writing. Contact: D.W.Galbraith@soton.ac.uk
Joachim Grabowski is Professor for Educational Psychology and Associate Professor for German Linguistics at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. His research interests relate to writing processes and writing didactics and the related cognitive and linguistic abilities. Contact: grabowski@psychologie.uni-hannover.de
Alain Hertz is holder of a diploma in Mathematical Engineering, Alain Hertz obtained a Ph.D in operations research at the École Polytechnqiue Fédérale de Lausanne. Since 2001, he is Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He is also member of the multi-disciplinary GERAD research group that includes nearly sixty researchers and experts in operations research and discrete mathematics. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications His main research domains are combinatorial optimization, graph theory, algorithmics, and the development of decision aid systems for scheduling and distribution problems. Contact: alain.hertz@gerad.ca
Ha Hoang holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington, where she currently teaches on the English for Academic Purposes and Writing Programmes. Her research interests are metaphor, bilingual figurative thinking, second language writing, and teacher autonomy and agency. Contact: ha.hoang@vuw.ac.nz
Roger Johansson is an Associate Professor in Psychology, Lund University. In his research, he has mainly worked on the relationship between eye movements, attention, memory and mental imagery. In particular, he has studied eye movements during reading and writing processes, using eye tracking as a primary tool. Contact: roger.johansson@psy.lu.se
Victoria Johansson is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, Sweden. Her research interests include language production in writing and speech, with special focus on writing development in a lifelong perspective. She has further engaged in methodological development for investigating writing processes, including working with keystroke logging in combination with eye-tracking. Contact: victoria.johansson@ling.lu.se
Yvonne Knospe holds a PhD in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. She is currently a postdoc researcher in special education and teaches German at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include writing instruction, writing strategies and writing development in the contexts of foreign language learning and special education. Contact: yvonne.knospe@umu.se
José Paulo Leal is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. He is affiliated with the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), an R&D unit of INESCTEC Research Laboratory, where he is an effective member. His main research interests are technology enhanced learning, web adaptability, and semantic web. Other lines of research include the development of software for collecting data and managing experiments in cognitive processes in writing. Contact: jose.p.leal@inesctec.pt
Christophe Leblay is Adjunct Professor at the School of Languages and Translation Studies at Turku University, Finland. His research interests include textgenetics with a particular focus on revision during writing and professional writing. He is also leading of research group TER s at Institut desTextes et Manuscrits Modernes (ENS–CNRS). In collaboration with Gilles Caporossi, he developed the keystroke logging software GenoGraphiX, based upon a transposition of graph theory. Contact: christophe.leblay@utu.fi
Mariëlle Leijten is a Professor in Professional Communications, affiliated to the Department of Management at the University of Antwerp. Her research focusses on cognitive writing processes, writing and digital media, more specifically analyzing online writing processes in professional organizations via keystroke logging. To observe writing processes she developed Inputlog, together with Luuk van Waes. Contact: marielle.leijten@uantwerpen.be
Teresa Limpo is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences. Her major research interest lies in the study of cognitive and motivational processes in writing. Specifically, she has been studying the interaction among transcription, self-regulation and motivation, and how these processes influence writing quality throughout schooling. She has also developed evidence-based writing interventions to promote key writing skills in school-aged children. Contact: tlimpo@fpce.up.pt
Eva Lindgren is a Professor of Language Teaching and Learning at the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include curriculum, multilingualism, and literacy with a particular focus on writing, revision during writing, and writing development across languages. Other lines of research include participatory research designs with schools and communities as well as large register data studies of the relationship between school achievements, linguistic background, socio-economic factors and future life chances. Contact: eva.lindgren@umu.se
Markus Linnemann is Assistant Professor for Primary Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau. His research interests include research focusing on the development of education in heterogeneous learning groups, language for education in non-language subjects, and cognitive processes of writing and reading. Other fields of research include language assessment, curriculum-based measurement, and quantitative research methods. Contact: mlinnemann@uni-koblenz.de
Anita Malmqvist is Emerita Professor of German at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research in the area of Language Teaching and Learning mainly focuses on the development of writing in a third language, both in secondary and tertiary education, especially teacher education. Over the years she has been deeply involved in language teacher education and in-service teacher training. Contact: anita.malmqvist@umu.se
Hanna Outakoski is Senior Lecturer in Sámi Studies at the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University, Sweden, and an international research fellow at four Nordic universities. Her research focuses on writing and writing education in schools and in teacher education in indigenous contexts in Sweden, Norway and Finland. In her publications she has explored writing and fluency across three languages, time and space in teachers perception of Sámi language and education, and opportunities for children to learn minority Sámi languages in majority language contexts. Contact: hanna.outakoski@umu.se
Daniel Perrin is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Director at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics AILA, and Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and the de Gruyter Handbook of Applied Linguistics series. His areas of research are media linguistics, methodology of applied linguistics, text production research, and analysis of language use in professional communication. Daniel Perrin worked as a journalist and writing coach and is still engaged in training and coaching communication professionals. Contact: daniel.perrin@zhaw.ch,
Elke Peters obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics in 2006. She is an associate professor at the KU Leuven. Her research interests are vocabulary acquisition and instructed second language acquisition. She has published in international journals (Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching). Contact: elke.peters@kuleuven.be
Sven Strömqvist is Professor of General Linguistics and Language Learning at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. Between 2009 and 2015 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor of research for Lund University. He has been a pioneer in the development of the keystroke logging software Scriptlog and has published numerous studies in the fields of writing, writing development, speech and writing and language development. Contact: sven.stromqvist@ling.lu.se
Kirk P.H. Sullivan is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests lie at the nexus of linguistics, cognition and education, and include writing processes, the teaching of writing, multilingualism, doctoral studies, and forensic linguistics. Together with Coppélie Cocq, Kirk has recently edited the Studies in Writing volume, Perspectives on Indigenous Writing and Literacies. Contact: kirk.sullivan@umu.se
Gulay Tiryakioglu is doing research on the writing processes in the Centre for Research in Terminology and Translation at the Faculty of Linguistics, University of Lyon/France. Her research interests lie in writing process research, L2 writing, multilingual writing, cognitive-linguistics, L2 writing instruction, bilingualism, foreign language acquisition, English as a Foreign Language teaching. Contact: Gulay.Tiryakioglu@univ-lyon2.fr
Eric Van Horenbeeck is the technical coordinator for Inputlog at the University of Antwerp. He received a PhD in computational linguistics on a novel algorithm for semantic analysis of unstructured data. Together with Tom Pauwaert he translated the S-notation markup rules into a computer module. This allows the reconstruction into words of characters and their revisions and ultimately the linguistic analysis of the text production. Contact: eric.vanhorenbeeck@uantwerpen.be
Luuk Van Waes is a Professor in Professional Communication, affiliated to the department of Management at the University of Antwerp. He has been involved in several writing studies with a special focus on the influence of digital media on the organization of (professional) writing processes. To observe writing processes he developed Inputlog, together with Mariëlle Leijten. He is also the (founding) editor of the ‘Journal of Writing Research’. Contact: luuk.vanwaes@uantwerpen.be
Ingela Valfridsson is a Senior Lecturer in German Language and Linguistics at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research focuses on writing development in a foreign language, multilingualism and implicit vs. explicit learning. She is engaged in language teacher education and in-service training. Contact: ingela.valdfridsson@umu.se
Lieven Verschaffel obtained in 1984 the degree of Doctor in Educational Sciences at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Since 2000 he is a Professor in Educational Sciences at that same university, with a main interest educational psychology and more particularly learning and teaching in specific domains such as mathematics, languages, history, and music. Lieven Verschaffel is a member of the editorial board of numerous international journals in the domain of learning and teaching. Contact: lieven.verschaffel@kuleuven.be
Sebastian Wallot got his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cincinnati (OH), USA, in 2011. Since 2016 he is working as senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany. His research interests include dynamic systems analyses with application in psychology, naturalistic language processing, and joint action research. Contact: sebastian.wallot@aesthetics.mpg.de
Åsa Wengelin is a Professor at the Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In her research, she has focussed mainly on the writing processes of writers of different age groups with and without language disabilities. An important part of her research has involved development and evaluation of methods, techniques and tools for writing research. In particular, she has been interested in the combination of keystroke logging and eye tracking. Contact: asa.wengelin@svenska.gu.se
Asbjørg Westum is a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Languages at Jönköping University, Sweden. Her research interests lies mainly in the field of language and culture, where she is currently investigating the emerging learned language in Swedish religious texts of the late Middle Ages. Her more recent interests include adult-background refugee education and literacy development, and North Sámi school children’s writing in Sami, English, and the national majority language (Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish). Contact: asbjorg.westum@ju.se