BIO

Jan Hulstijn is professor emeritus of second language acquisition at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) of the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (1982). His thesis reports on an experimental study, testing one of the hypotheses of Krashen’s Monitor Theory. The main findings were published in the journal Language Learning (1984). He has been affiliated with the University of Amsterdam (full professor) since 1998. Before that he held positions at Leiden University and the Free University of Amsterdam, where he taught, for more than 20 years, Dutch as an L2 to foreign students. He was associate post-doc researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada (1982-1983) and he was visiting professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, (2002) and at Stockholm University (2005). With others PIs, he received a number of research grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) between 1982 and 2007. In 2018 he received the 2018 distinguished scholar award from the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA). 

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