Ph.D. Projects

I am involved as a supervisor and promotor in the projects of the following Ph.D. students:

• Geerke van der Bruggen (together with Henk Pander Maat and REBO; external)
• Hilde Kooiker-Den Boer (together with Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul; Grant from NWO, Teachers' grant)
• Houda Al Kalaf (together with Prof. C. Jenks; Volkswagen Stiftung)

Graduated Ph.D. students

Hu, N. (2023, February 10). Speaking of causality: on the role of prosody in communicating subjective and objective causality in discourse. Utrecht University (253 pag.) (LOT). (promotores: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders, prof. dr. H. Quené, & prof. dr. A. Chen).

Sangers, N. L. (2022, March 30). Vivid educational texts. Engaging students via narrative and voice elements. Utrecht University (252 pag.) (LOT). (2nd promotor, promotor: prof. dr. J. A. L. Hoeken, copromotor: dr. J. Evers-Vermeul).

Xiao, H. (2020, August 26). Subjectivity, causality and connectives in Mandarin Chinese. Converging evidence from written, spoken and social media discourse. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (224 pag.) (LOT). (2nd promotor, 1st promotor: prof. dr. W. P. M. S. Spooren).

Santana Covarrubias, A. (2019, June 7). Is porque more like because or like omdat? An exploration of causality and subjectivity in Spanish backward causal connectives. Utrecht University (223 pag.) (LOT). (promotor, 2nd promotor: prof. dr. W. P. M. S. Spooren, copromotor: dr. D. Nieuwenhuijsen).

Scholman, M. C. J. (2019, February 22). Coherence relations in discourse and cognition: Comparing approaches, annotations, and interpretations. Dissertatie, Universität des Saarlandes (2nd promotor, promotores: prof. dr. V. Demberg & prof. dr. M. Crocker).

Hoek, J. (2018, September 21). Making sense of discourse: On discourse segmentation and the linguistic marking of coherence relations. Utrecht University (251 pag.) (LOT). (promotor, 2nd promotor: prof. dr. S. Zufferey, copromotor: dr. J. Evers-Vermeul).

Kleijn, S. (2018, April 6). Clozing in on readability: How linguistic features affect and predict text comprehension and on-line processing. UU Universiteit Utrecht (237 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T. J. M. Sanders & dr. H. L. W. Pander Maat.

Wei, Y. (2018, January 15). Fact or opinion? Linguistic markers of subjectivity. UU Universiteit Utrecht (197 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T. J. M. Sanders, dr. J. Evers-Vermeul, & dr. W. M. Mak.

Koster, M., & Bouwer, R. (2016, September 2). Bringing writing research into the classroom: The effectiveness of Tekster, a newly developed writing program for elementary students. UU Universiteit Utrecht. Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T. J. M. Sanders & prof. dr. H. van den Bergh.

Van Silfhout, G. (2014, October 16). Fun to read or easy to understand? Establishing effective text features for educational texts on the basis of processing and comprehension research. UU Universiteit Utrecht (215 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & dr. J. Evers-Vermeul.

Feenstra, H.M. (2014, September 05). Assessing writing ability in primary education. On the evaluation of text qualitative and text complexity. Universiteit Twente. Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. ir. T.J.H.M. Eggen & prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders

Li, F. (2014, August 29). Subjectivity in Mandarin Chinese: The meaning and use of causal connectives in written discourse. UU Universiteit Utrecht (209 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & dr. J. Evers-Vermeul.

Bosker, H.R. (2014, May 23). The processing and evaluation of fluency in native and non-native speech. UU Universiteit Utrecht (174 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders, dr. N.H. de Jong & dr. H. Quené.

Jochmann-Mannak, H. (2014, January 9). Websites for children: Search strategies and interface design - Three studies on children's search performance and evaluation. Universiteit Twente (250 pag.). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.W.C. Huibers, prof. dr. L.R. Lentz & prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders.

Canestrelli, A.R. (2013, April 19). Small words, big effects? Subjective versus objective causal connectives in discourse processing. UU Universiteit Utrecht (229 pag.)  (Utrecht: LOT). Prom/coprom.: prof. Dr. T.J.M. Sanders & dr. W.M. Mak.

Kamoen, N. (2012, June 22). Positive versus Negative. A cognitive perspective on wording effects for contrastive questions in attitude surveys. UU Universiteit Utrecht (174 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. H. van den Bergh, prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & dr. B.C. Holleman.

Tillema, M. (2012, June 19). Writing in first and second language: empirical studies on text quality and writing processes. UU Universiteit Utrecht (167 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. H. van den Bergh, prof. dr. G.C.W. Rijlaarsdam & prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders.

Veen, R. van (2011, November 16). The acquisition of causal connectives: the role of parental input and cognitive complexity. UU Universiteit Utrecht (216 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders, prof. dr. H. van den Bergh & dr. J. Evers-Vermeul.

Versteeg, N. (2009, June 05). What you Know is What you Parse : How situational knowledge affects sentence processing. UU Universiteit Utrecht (281 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & prof. dr. F.N.K. Wijnen.

Land, J.F.H. (2009, February 13). Zwakke lezers, sterke teksten? effecten van tekst- en lezerskenmerken op het tekstbegrip en de tekstwaardering van vmbo-leerlingen. UU Universiteit Utrecht (243 pag.) (Delft: Eburon). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders, prof. dr. H. van den Bergh & prof. dr. D.H. Schram.

Weijen, D. van (2009, January 30). Writing processes, text quality, and task effects; empirical studies in first and second language writing. UU Universiteit Utrecht (200 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. H. van den Bergh, prof. dr. G.C.W. Rijlaarsdam & prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders.

Mulder, G. (2008, February 01). Understanding Causal Coherence Relations. UU Universiteit (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & prof. dr. H. van den Bergh.

Kamalski, J. M. H. (2007, August 31). Coherence Marking, Comprehension and Persuasion. On the processing and representation of discourse. UU Universiteit Utrecht (227 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & dr. L.R. Lentz.

Stukker, N. M. (2005, December 02). Causality marking across levels of language structure. A cognitive semantic analysis of causal verbs and causal connectives in Dutch. UU Universiteit Utrecht (x + 301 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & prof. dr. A. Verhagen.

Evers-Vermeul, J. (2005, May 24). The Development of Dutch Connectives; Change and acquisition as windows on form-function relations. UU Universiteit Utrecht (296 pag.) (Utrecht: LOT). Prom./coprom.: prof. dr. T.J.M. Sanders & prof. dr. F.P. Weerman.