12 Facts About Marjolijn Verspoor

Marjolijn Verspoor was born on 1952 and is a Dutch linguist.

Marjolijn Verspoor is a professor of English language and English as a second language at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Marjolijn Verspoor is known for her work on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and the application of dynamical systems theory to study second language development.

Marjolijn Verspoor is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply time-series data to study second language development along with de Bot, van Geert, and Lowie.

Marjolijn Verspoor has published journal articles and edited several books on different areas of linguistics, including second language development, effects of bilingual education, effects of cognitive insights into second language development, cognitive linguistic approach to English complementation.

Marjolijn Verspoor was appointed as a research assistant and teaching assistant in German at the German department of the Louisiana State University, The United States in 1973.

Marjolijn Verspoor was responsible for content of national English exam.

Marjolijn Verspoor is one of the members of the Solidarity Award Committee of the International Association of Applied Linguistics along with Kees de Bot and Rosa Manchon.

Marjolijn Verspoor has published articles in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, The Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching Research, and Language Learning.

In 2015 Marjolijn Verspoor presented A dynamic perspective on developmental patterns in Finnish as an L2 at the ELC 4.

Marjolijn Verspoor is noted for her work on language complexity.

Marjolijn Verspoor proposed the finite verb ratio index to measure general syntactic complexity and the average word length of content words to gauge lexical complexity in second language writing development.