Membre du personnel

Eloy ROMERO-MUNOZ

Assistant

I'm currently working on a PhD project in English linguistics / applied educational linguistics with Prof. Vandelanotte and Prof. Vanparys (both FUNDP faculty members). The tentative focus is on the status of grammar in the post-method classroom from a CogLing perspective.

Téléphone: 081/724092
Fax: 081/724203
Mail:

Charges aux FUNDP

Département de langues et littératures germaniques (Assistant)
Unité d'anglais (Assistant)
Groupe de recherche sur le Plurilinguisme (Scientifique)

Diplômes

M.A. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL, USA)

CAPAES (formation théorique uniquement), Université de Liège / Haute Ecole Charlemagne, Les Rivageois (Liège)

A.E.S.S. Langues et Littératures Germaniques, Université de Liège

Licence en Langues et Littératures germaniques (anglais / néerlandais)

DEC2 en Etudes américaines, Université de Liège

Certificat pour l'enseignement de l'anglais à des apprenants francophones, Université de Liège

Domaines de compétences

Areas of interest:

FL Acquisition (especially English and Dutch), Pedagogical Grammar, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar, Prescription vs. Practice in ELT, textbook analysis, teacher cognition

Charges externes

Professeur d'anglais à l'Université du Troisième Age (UTAN) à Namur

Responsable de l'examen d'admission aux études universitaires (en collaboration avec les FUSAGx)

Distinctions

2001-2002: Nomination pour le prix du meilleur "Teaching Assistant in Rhet 105" (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)

2000: Prix Léon Guérin (Université de Liège)

1999: Prix des Amis de l'ULG pour un mémoire de licence (Université de Liège)

Cognitive Grammar has been described as a "usage-based" model of language. The descriptor is liable to give rise to confusion, to the extent that "usage-based" can be understood in two ways: as a statement about the content and structure of a grammar, or as a prescription for research methodology. However, the mere fact that a linguist studies "usage" does not make him or her a "cognitive" linguist; conversely, the fact that a linguistic theory is based on introspective analysis of invented data is not inconsistent with the aims of Cognitive Grammar. This series of lectures examines these two approaches to a usage-based grammar, and their integration in a Cognitive Grammar approach. The first lecture introduces the issues. Sessions 2 and 3 report on two data-driven case studies. Session 4 looks at the relation between language and the circumstances of its use. The final session examines the relation between the (mental) grammar and usage as manifested, for example, in a collection of text (i.e. a corpus).

Formation : LOT Winter School 2007 - Cours de Mme Dabrowska: "Big words and little rules - Exploring grammar in the mind" (Radboud Universiteit - Nijmegen, 2007)

Course description (from LOT website): Linguists have traditionally viewed language as consisting of a lexicon, a list of all the words and/or morphemes of the language, and a grammar containing rules and principles specifying how the lexical elements can be combined to form novel structures. It has also been assumed that the rules of grammar should be maximally general and simple, and all irregularities relegated to the lexicon. There is a growing consensus among psycholinguists and many linguists that such a view is not psychologically realistic. The lexicon consists in large part of multi-word units and templates; and speakers seem to prefer low-level rules which capture local generalizations to the abstract principles put forward by linguists.

This course reviews the evidence for such 'big words' and 'little rules' and discusses the implications of these findings for linguistic theory. Classes will consist of lectures and discussion. Students will also work through problem sets in class.

Colloque : Varieties of Voice: 3rd BAAHE International Conference (KULeuven, 2006)

BAAHE (Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education) provides a forum for academics involved in the fields of literatures in English and cultural studies, linguistics and translation studies, and English language teaching. "Varieties of Voice" is an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the role played by voice in various fields of English studies.