Frank Boers

Frank Boers

Associate Professor
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
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Qualifications

BA Antwerp, MA Antwerp, PhD Antwerp

Research Interests

Frank Boers used to teach EFL, ESP, EAP, and various descriptive and applied linguistics subjects in Belgium. His initial research interests were in the field of lexicology (e.g. studies of polysemy) and semantics generally (e.g. studies of metaphor). Most of his recent research, however, concerns instructed second language acquisition, especially the teaching of L2 vocabulary and phraseology, and the potential merits of Cognitive Linguistics in that domain. His work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching Research and System, and in volumes published by, e.g., John Benjamins, Mouton De Gruyter and Cambridge University Press. He is co-author (with Seth Lindstromberg) of Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and co-editor of two collective volumes in Mouton de Gruyter’s Applications of Cognitive Linguistics Series (2008 and 2010).

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Publications

List of Frank's publications