Professor Emeritus of Second Language Acquisition
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Citations of our/my work can be found in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=I_0fXY0AAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=sra
Reviews of my 2015 book Language proficiency in native and non-native speakers can be found in Language Testing (DOI: 10.1177/0265532217701468), System (DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2015.12.011) and in the Newsletter of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL News No 11, Summer 2017, pp. 26-27: https://baalweb.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/baalnews_111_summer2017.pdf).
Hulstijn, J.H. (2023). Synthesis. Transdisciplinary perspectives on SLA: exploration versus explanation. In A. Godfroid & H. Hopp (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (pp. 439-449). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003018872
Hulstijn, J.H. (2022). Chapter 1. Introduction. In E.H. Jeon & Y. In’nami (Eds.), Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations (pp. 1-4). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/bpa.13.01hul
Hulstijn, J.H. (2020). Proximate and ultimate explanations of individual differences in language use and language acquisition. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9 (1/2), 21-27. DOI:10.1075/dujal.19027.hul (free access).
Hulstijn, J.H. (2019). An individual-differences framework for comparing non-native with native speakers: Perspectives from BLC Theory. Language learning, 69:S1, 157-183. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12317 (free access). This document can be found under Downloads.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2017). Syntactic patterns in the speech of native speakers of Dutch, differing in age and level of education and profession: A pilot study exploring the size of shared language knowledge. Linguistics in Amsterdam, 10, 1, 60-90. [http://www.linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/home?issue=101] This document can be found under Downloads.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2015). Discussion: How different can perspectives on L2 development be? Language Learning, 65, 210-232. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12096
Hulstijn, J.H. Language proficiency in native and non-native speakers: Theory and research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publication Company (published in February 2015).
Hulstijn, J.H. (2015). Explaining phenomena of first and second language acquisition with the constructs of implicit and explicit learning: The virtues and pitfalls of a two-system theory. In P. Rebuschat (Ed.), Implicit and explicit learning of languages (pp. 25-46). Amsterdam: Benjamins. This document can be found under Downloads.
Current research topics
Single-authored key publications
Hulstijn, J.H. (2019). An individual-differences framework for comparing non-native with native speakers: Perspectives from BLC Theory. Language Learning, 69:S1, 157-183. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12317 (free access).
Hulstijn, J.H. (2017). Syntactic patterns in the speech of native speakers of Dutch, differing in age and level of education and profession: A pilot study exploring the size of shared language knowledge. Linguistics in Amsterdam, 10, 1, 60-90. [http://www.linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/home?issue=101]
Hulstijn, J. H. (2015). Language proficiency in native and non-native speakers: Theory and research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Hulstijn, J. H. (2014). The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics. ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 165/1, 3-18.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2012). The construct of language proficiency in the study of bilingualism from a cognitive perspective. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15, 422-433.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2011). Language proficiency in native and nonnative speakers: An agenda for research and suggestions for second-language assessment. Language Assessment Quarterly, 8, 229-249.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2010). Measuring second language proficiency. In E. Blom & S. Unsworth (Eds.), Experimental methods in language acquisition research (EMLAR) (pp. 185-199). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Hulstijn, J. H. (2010). Linking L2 proficiency to L2 acquisition: Opportunities and challenges of profiling research. In I. Bartning, M. Martin & I. Vedder (Eds.), Communicative proficiency and linguistic development: intersections between SLA and language testing research (pp. 233-238). Eurosla Monographs Series, 1. Retrievable from http://eurosla.org/monographs/EM01/EM01home.html
Hulstijn, J.H. (2007). The shaky ground beneath the CEFR: Quantitative and qualitative dimensions of language proficiency. The Modern Language Journal, 91, 663-667.
Single-authored key publications:
Hulstijn, J.H. (2015). Explaining phenomena of first and second language acquisition with the constructs of implicit and explicit learning: The virtues and pitfalls of a two-system view. In P. Rebuschat (Ed.), Implicit and explicit learning of languages (pp. 25-46). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This document can be found under Downloads.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2013). Incidental learning in second language acquisition. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2005). Theoretical and empirical issues in the study of implicit and explicit second-language learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 129-140.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2003). Incidental and intentional learning. In C. Doughty & M.H. Long (Eds.), The handbook of second language research (pp. 349-381). London: Blackwell.
Hulstijn, J.H.. (2002). Towards a unified account of the representation, processing and acquisition of second language knowledge. Second Language Research, 18, 193-223.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2001). Intentional and incidental second-language vocabulary learning: A reappraisal of elaboration, rehearsal and automaticity. In P. Robinson (ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 258-286). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hulstijn, J.H. (1995). Not all grammar rules are equal: Giving grammar instruction its proper place in foreign language instruction. In: R. Schmidt (Ed.), Attention and awareness in foreign language learning (pp. 359-386). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center (Technical Report No. 9).
Hulstijn, J.H. (2023). Synthesis. Transdisciplinary perspectives on SLA: exploration versus explanation. In A. Godfroid & H. Hopp (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (pp. 439-449). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003018872
Hulstijn, J.H. (2015). Discussion: How different can perspectives on L2 development be? Language Learning, 65, 210-232.
Hulstijn, J. H., Young, R.F., Ortega, L., Bigelow, M., DeKeyser, R., Ellis, N.C., Lantolf, J.P., Mackey, A., & Talmy, S. (2014). Bridging the gap: Cognitive and social approaches to research in second language learning and teaching. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36, 361-421.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2013). Is the second language acquisition discipline disintegrating? Language Teaching, 46, 511-517.
Hulstijn, J.H. (2007). Fundamental issues in the study of second language acquisition. EUROSLA Yearbook, 7, 191-203.
Towards a theory of second-language proficiency: The case of segmenting and comprehending oral language, 2007-2012 (NWO grant 360-70-230)
Literacy-related attributes of at-risk students in grades 7-9, 2007-2012 (NWO grant 411-06-503)
Unraveling second language proficiency, 2004-2010 (NWO grant 254-70-030)
Transfer of higher-order processes and skills in reading and writing in Dutch and English,1997-2001 (NWO grant 575-36-001)
Learning and automatization of a second language, 1999-2003 (NWO grant 575-21-009)
Transfer van talenonderwijs, 1991-1994 (SVO grant 0374).
Reading in two languages, 1988-1992 (NWO grant 300-167-010)
Dutch sentence comprehension by adult non-native listeners, 1986-1990 (NWO grant 300-167-007).
Research associate at the Modern Language Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE),Toronto, Canada, 1982-1983 (ZWO grant).