Annick De Houwer

Annick De Houwer has recently been appointed as Chair of Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Erfurt in Germany. She is also the new Director of the Language Center there. In addition, Professor De Houwer holds the title of Collaborative Investigator to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver mostrar mais National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.A.). Her PhD was based on a dissertation on bilingual acquisition, a topic she has since continued to work on steadily. Her first book, The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth (CUP, 1990), is widely cited in the bilingual acquisition literature. Her second book is the comprehensive textbook Bilingual First Language Acquisition (Multilingual Matters, 2009). Dr. De Houwer has also published on Dutch child language, attitudes towards child language, teen language, and intralingual subtitling. mostrar menos