Lab Affiliation: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen

Research Interests:

Second language learning and bilingualism/multilingualism.

Foci: lexical and morphological/syntactic processing and development, as well as cross-language interaction, transfer, and code-switching, in second language learners at different levels of proficiency.

Language development in children with a typical or atypical language development (children who are deaf, children with dyslexia, with SLI, and bilingual children from an ethnic minority background)

Foci: development of literacy and morphology/syntax.

Recent Publications:

van Hell, J. G., & Witteman, M. J. (submitted). The neurocognition of switching between languages: A review of electrophysiological studies.

Klein, M., Bastiaansen, M., Brenders, P., van Hell, J. G., & Dijkstra, T. (submitted). Language switching within sentences yields increased theta band activity in the left frontal area of the brain.

Kootstra, G. J., van Hell, J. G., & Dijkstra, T. (submitted). Two speakers, one dialogue: An interactive alignment perspective on codeswitching in bilingual speakers.

van Beijsterveldt, L. M., & van Hell, J. G. (submitted). The development of deaf writers’ tense marking in narrative and expository text: a bimodal bilingual perspective.

van Beijsterveldt, L. M., & van Hell, J. G. (in revision). Structural priming of adjective-noun structures in hearing and deaf children.

Wolters, N., van Hell, J. G., & Pinar, P. (in revision). Deafness and learning a second written language: An experimental study on cross-language interaction and individual variability.

van Beijsterveldt, L. M. & van Hell, J. G. (in revision). Noun phrase morphology in texts written by deaf children and adults.

van Hell, J. G., & Tokowicz, N. (accepted, pending revision). Event-related potentials and second language learning: Syntactic processing in late L2 learners at different L2 proficiency levels. Second Language Research.

van Beijsterveldt, L. M., & van Hell, J. G. (accepted pending revision). Evaluative expression in deaf children’s written narratives. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.

van Hell, J. G. & de Groot, A. M. B. (in press). Sentence context affects lexical decision and word translation. Acta Psychologica.

van Hell, J. G., Verhoeven, L., & van Beijsterveldt, L. M. (in press). Pause time patterns in writing narrative and expository texts by children and adults. Discourse Processes.

Verhoeven, L. & van Hell, J. G. (in press). Clause packaging in Dutch narrative and expository text writing in children and adults. Discourse Processes

van Hell, J. G., & van Weerdenburg, M. (2007). Taalontwikkeling and taalproblemen [Language development and language disorders]. In: K. Verschueren & H. Koomen, Handboek diagnostiek in de leerlingenbegeleiding [Handbook for diagnostics in school service] (pp. 89-104). Leuven, Belgium: Garant.

Bosman, A. M. T., van Hell, J. G., & Verhoeven, L. (2006). Learning the spelling of strange words in Dutch benefits from regularized reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98, 879-890.

de Groot, A. M. B., & van Hell, J. G. (2005). The learning of foreign language vocabulary. In: J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 9-29). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

van Hell, J. G., Verhoeven, L., Tak, M., & van Oosterhout, M. (2005). To take a stance: A developmental study on the use of pronouns and passives in spoken and written texts in different genres. Journal of Pragmatics, 37, 239-273.

van Hell, J. G. (2004). Vroege taalontwikkeling en tweetaligheid: verloop, problemen en interventies [Early language development and bilingualism: course, problems, and interventions]. In: A. van der Ley & P. Leseman (Eds.), Educatieve interventies in de voor- en vroegschoolse periode: belang, beloften, beleid (pp. 79-92). Baarn, the Netherlands: HB Uitgevers.

Dijkstra, T., & van Hell, J. G. (2003). Testing the Language Mode hypothesis using trilinguals. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 6, 2-16.

van Hell, J. G., Bosman, A. M. T., & Bartelings, M. (2003). Visual dictation improves the spelling performance of three groups of Dutch children with spelling disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 26, 239-255.

van Hell, J. G., Bosman, A. M. T., Wiggers, I., & Stoit, J. (2003). Children's cultural background knowledge and story telling performance. International Journal of Bilingualism, 7, 283-303.

Bosman, A. M. T., & van Hell, J. G. (2002). Orthography, phonology, and semantics: Concerted action in word perception. In L. Verhoeven, C. Elbro, & P. Reitsma (Eds.), Precursors of functional literacy (pp. 165-187). Amsterdam/Philadelpia: John Benjamins.

Ragnarsdóttir, H., Aparici, M., Cahana-Amitay, D., van Hell, J. G., & Vigué-Simon, A. (2002). Verbal structure and content in written discourse: Expository and narrative texts. Written Language and Literacy, 5, 95-126.

Ravid, D., van Hell, J. G., Rosado, E., & Zamora, A. (2002). Subject NP patterning in the development of text production: Speech and writing. Written Language and Literacy, 5, 69-93.

Tokowicz, N., Kroll, J. F., de Groot, A. M. B., & van Hell, J. G. (2002). Number of translation norms for Dutch-English translation pairs: A new tool for examining language production. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 435-451.

van Hell, J. G. (2002). Bilingual word recognition beyond orthography: On meaning, linguistic context, and individual differences. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 5, 209-212.

van Hell, J. G. & Dijkstra, T. (2002). Foreign language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 780-789.

van Hell, J. G., de Klerk, A., Strauss, D. E. M., & Torremans, T. (2002, Eds). Taalontwikkeling en taalstoornissen: Theorie, diagnostiek en behandeling [Language development and language disorders: Theory, diagnostics, and therapy]. Leuven, Belgium: Garant.

Verhoeven, L., Aparici, M., Cahana-Amitay, D., van Hell, J. G., Kriz, S., Vigué-Simon, A. (2002). Clause packaging in writing and speech: A cross-linguistic developmental analysis. Written Language and Literacy, 5, 135-161.