Curriculum Vitae

Kees de Bot graduated at the University of Nijmegen in General Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. His PhD research concerned the use of visualizations of intonation as a teaching aid. His research concerns a number of topics including foreign language attrition, language and dementia in multilingual settings, maintenance and shift of minority languages and the psycholinguistics of bilingual language processing, and more recently the application of Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA and multilingualism. 

He became Chair of Applied Linguistics and head of department at the University of Nijmegen in May 1994. In November 2002 he became Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen.
He is a trustee of the TESOL International Research Foundation and a member of the Program Committee of the Department of Modern Languages of Carnegie Mellon University.
He is coeditor of a series 'Studies in Bilingualism' from John Benjamins Publ. He has published books and articles on various topics in the field of Applied Linguistics. He is Chair of the Board of the School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences in Groningen. He recently acted as guest editor of a special issue of the journal Studies in Bilingualism on language attrition.

Kees de Bot new Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts (25 May 2009)

 

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