| J e r o e n A a r s s e n | Linguist and turcologist, or turcolinguist if you like... |
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S Sint Jacobsstraat 63 3511 BP Utrecht The Netherlands phone: (+31) 30-2326203 fax: (+31) 30-2333017 e-mail: Jeroen.Aarssen@planet.nl |
I am working as a
project coordinator at the Language Unit of Sardes Educational
Services. more about Sardes One of my current projects is providing technical assistance to the Turkish government on the topic of Special Education, in a Matra Pre-Accession Project (2005-2006). I also am involved in a project on quality indicators of language policy in schools with children at risk. Furthermore, I work with my Language Unit colleagues on a early childhood language intervention programme, called Taallijn. |
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From 1990-2001, I
worked as a researcher at Babylon, the Center for Studies of
Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society (Tilburg
University).
I wrote my PhD thesis Relating Events in Two Languages. Acquisition of Cohesive Devices by Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children at School Age. (= Studies in Multilingualism, Vol.2, Tilburg University Press) in 1996. The data collected for this project are available through the CHILDES database. I have been involved (1998-2001) in a research programme called Talen en Culturen in het Utrechtse Lombok en Transvaal, (TCULT) in which languages and cultures in a multicultural neighbourhood in Utrecht (Lombok/Transvaal) were investigated. With Willy Jongenburger, I published the results of a Language and Culture Survey in this neighbourhood. Ad Backus and I wrote the new edition of Colloquial Turkish, the complete course for Beginners , published by Routledge in 2001. Three children's books by the Turkish writer Halil Gür were translated by me. The latest one Ik danste met engelen [I danced with angels], appeared in September 2001. |
| © March 2005 Jeroen Aarssen | Personal details: born in Kloosterzande (near Lamswaarde...) in 1964; grew up in Middelburg and Hulst. My highschool was the Reynaert College (although at that time it was called Jansenius Lyceum). I am married (to Maaike) and have two children, Anne (girl, 1993) and Senne (boy, 1995). We live in a cosy old house in Zeist. |