234 search results for “pictorial language” in the Staff website
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Joost Grootens
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Language courses offered by the Academic Language Centre
Language
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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New language proficiency requirements for PhD candidates from 1 September 2024 onwards
Research
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Harry Stroomer
Faculty of Humanities
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Khalid Mourigh
Faculty of Humanities
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Ans de Rooij-van Broekhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudio Di Felice
Faculty of Humanities
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Colin Ewen
Faculty of Humanities
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Gea Hakker: ‘We aim to be the gold standard of language learning’
The Academic Language Centre (ATC) is one of the cornerstones of Leiden University. Director Gea Hakker explains how this organisation is providing quality (online) language courses and meeting new demands.
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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News on Languages & Cultures domain
Education
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Keiko Yoshioka
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.
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Willem Adelaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Abhishek Avtans-
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Jin Hee Park
Faculty of Humanities
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Ae Ree Nam
Faculty of Humanities
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Emi Yamamoto
Faculty of Humanities
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Anneke Both-de Vries
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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How do people best learn a language? 'It's incredible what you do when you talk'
According to Nivja de Jong, second language acquisition is 'the most fascinating subject in linguistics'. As a recently appointed professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, she studies the question of how best to teach people a new language.
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages'
On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother Language Day. Under the banner of 'a bit of fun and many serious topics,' language took centre stage.
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Development of broad Languages and Cultures BA programme to change to ‘Renewing and Strengthening Language Programmes’
As you may know, a draft profile for a broad BA programme in Languages and Cultures has been in development for some time. On 21 December 2021, the Faculty Board decided to end the design process of that broad bachelor’s degree programme. However, as the Faculty Board and partners in the discipline…
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Students create creative language lessons for primary and secondary education: ‘Not enough attention paid to languages’
The earlier you introduce children to a language, the sooner they can be captivated by it and see that there is more than just Dutch and English. That is the basis for the language lessons for primary education that Alisa van de Haar, university lecturer of French, collaborated on. ‘Deans from different…
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How AI helps map sign languages
Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and annotation. Manolis Fragkiadakis wrote his PhD thesis on this.
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’
Nancy Kula has been Professor of African Linguistics since 1 February. Now is a good time to hear more about her field of expertise and academic interests.
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? PhD candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left…
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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
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Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga Nozdracheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Fenna Poletiek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20 years later, she is starting a research project on the kinship of the language Awapit with the Quechua language that was spread by the Incas.
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Bert van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Nivja de Jong
Faculty of Humanities
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Programme innovation at Dutch Language and Culture
In 2018, the undergraduate programme Dutch Language and Culture embarked on sweeping programme innovations to educate its students ‘in a way that focusses more on the challenges of Dutch Studies in a 21st century society’. What does this entail and what was the approach? Esther Op de Beek, university…
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Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all
For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent research carried out by a consortium of four Dutch baby labs led by researchers from Leiden cast doubts on this certainty. We spoke to researchers Andreea…
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities