The main research question of my project is how cognitive task complexity and interactivity influence the oral performance of second language (L2) learners. My empirical investigations focus on Turkish and Moroccan learners of Dutch L2.

I work within the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching by Peter Robinson.

My promotor (1st advisor) is Folkert Kuiken and InekeVedderis my co-promoter (2nd advisor).

Folkert Kuiken
Ineke Vedder
Peter Robinson's pages about the Cognition Hypothesis of Task-based Language Teaching

From July 2009 on I work as a research associate at the Teachers College of the Techincal University of Dortmund (ZfL, TU Dortmund) on a project on second language acquisition of German (DaZ). The focus lies on the implementation of content and language integrated learning in the teachers education of all subjects.

I am still affiliated as a Ph.D-student at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)

and I am a member ofthe Research Group Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (CASLA).

I am also a member of the AILA Research Network (ReN):
Task Complexity and Second Language Learning (TacoSell).

ACLC
CASLA
TU Dortmund, ZfL (Teachers College)

Michel, M.C. (in preparation) Effects of Task Complexity on the Use of Connectives in L2 Task Performances.

Michel, M.C., F.Kuiken, & I.Vedder (2007) Effects of Task Complexity and Task Conditon on Dutch L2. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 45 (3), p.241-259.

Michel, M.C. (2009) Hoe simpel is complex? De invloed van taakcomplexiteit en interactie op het taalgebruik van tweedetaalleerders. Bundel van de 6e ANéLA-conferentie.

Lemhöfer, K., T. Dijkstra, & M.C.Michel (2004) Three languages, one ECHO: Cognate effects in trilingual word recognition.Language and Cognitive Processes. 19 (5), pp 525.

Publications in DARE
Hoe simpel is complex? (Michel 2009)

Hoe simpel is complex: De invloed van taakcomplexiteit en interactie op het taalgebruik van tweedetaalleerders. ANéLA conferentie 2009. Rolduc Kerkrade, Netherlands, 27-29 May 2009.

Task Complexity and Interaction: Effects on L2-Task Performance. AAAL 2009 - Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado, USA, 21-24 March 2009.

Combined Effects of Task Complexity and Interactivity on L2-Performance. NAP-dag. University of Amsterdam, 26 September 2008.

Effects of task complexity and interaction on the oral output of Turkish and Moroccan L2-learners. REN-Symposium "Task type, task complexity and linguistic performance". AILA 2008, 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Multilingualism: Challenges & Opportunities. Essen, Germany, 24-29 August 2008.

Dealing with complex tasks in a second language. Invited Talk at the Initiative for Bilingual Studies (IBIS, head: prof. Chris Bongartz). Köln, Germany, 14th of July 2008.

How to Deal with Task Complexity & Interaction in the Language Classroom. ANéLA-voorjaarstudiedag, International Symposium: Task Complexity & Linguistic Complexity: Pedagogical Implications. Leiden, 18 April2008.

The Interaction of Task Condition & Task Complexity in the Oral Performance of Turkish and Moroccan Learners of Dutch. 2nd International Conference on Task-based Lanugage Teaching (TBLT 2007), University of Hawai'i, Manoa-Honolulu, Hawai'i, September 2007. 

Effects of Interactivity & Task Complexity ontheOralProduction in Dutch as a Second Language. Invited Talk at the Initiative for Bilingual Studies (IBIS, head: prof. Chris Bongartz). Köln, Germany, July 2007.

Effects of Task Complexity and Interactivity on the Oral Performance of Second Language Learners of Dutch. Colloquium on Task Complexity.Organized by Peter Robinson. AAAL2007, Costa Mesa,California, April 2007.

Poster: Effects of Task Complexity and Task Condition on the Oral Performance of L2-Learners of Dutch.Symposium on Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Second Language Use, Learning & Teaching.Brussels, March 2007.

Effects of Task Complexity and Task Condition on the Oral Performance of L2-Learners of Dutch. International JuniorResearch Meeting (IJRM) ANéLA-GAL. Groningen University, January 26th 2007.

Effects of Task Complexity and Task Condition on the Performance of Moroccan and Turkish learners of Dutch as an L2. NAP-dag. University of Amsterdam, september 2006.

with Folkert Kuiken & Ineke Vedder:
De relatie tussen de cognitieve complexiteit van een taaltaak en de linguïstische complexiteit van de output. Studiedag Noorderburen - Zuiderburen. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 28  november 2005.

AAAL 2009
CAF Brussels
IJRM - ANéLA-GAL
IBIS - Initiativefor Bilingual Studies, Köln
2nd International Conference on Task-based Language Teaching - TLBT 2007
ANéLA-voorjaarstudiedag 2008
AILA 2008
TaCoSeLL - symposium programm AILA 2008
AAAL2007
TBLT 2009
presentation TBLT 2009

• Deutsch als Zweitsprache: Theorie und Vorbereitung  fuer Studentische Foerderlehrer
• Deutsch als Zweitsprache: Praxis und Begleitung fuer Studentische Foerderlehrer
  

• Free University Berlin: Department of Dutch Philology.
  Teaching: Introduction to psycholinguistics for students of Dutch

Graduiertenkolleg Economy and Complexity of Language 

• University of Potsdam: Department of Patholinguistics
  Research: The processing of scalar implicatures by aphasic patients
  
• Humboldt University Berlin:  Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik.
  Teaching: Academic skills

• 2009:  Student abstract award for the 3rd Conference on Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in Lancaster of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
• 2002: graduate student grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft for the Graduate School Economy and Complexity in Language
  
• 2002: study grant of the Vereniging tot instandhouding van het Landree-Fonds
  
• 2001: grant of the Nederlandse Taalunie for being a student assistent for Dutch as a Second Language extra muros
• 2000: grant of the Erasmus/Sokrates Programm for studying abroad
  

• representative of the Ph.D.-students in the advisory board of the ACLC (feb 2007-feb 2008).
  
• correspondent for SecondLanguage Acquisition for the newsletter of the Werkverband Amsterdamse Psycholinguisten (Het WAP).
  
• member of the vrouwennetwerk UvA FGW