University of Groningen
Get it together
Smit, Nienke
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Smit, N. (2021). Get it together: exploring the dynamics of teacher-student interaction in English as a
foreign language lessons. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.160498701
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Biography
Nienke Smit (1980) is an applied linguistics researcher and EFL teacher educator. Her research focuses on scaffolding, interaction and adaptive teaching. She specializes in classroom observational research from a complex dynamic systems research perspective. Before becoming a teacher, teacher educator and researcher, she studied English language and culture at the University of Groningen and the University of York (UK). She attended the teacher education program at the University of Groningen and became a secondary school teacher of English as a foreign language. She taught secondary school learners until 2007. Nienke also co-authored task-based language teaching materials for a Dutch publisher.
In 2005 she started working as a teacher educator for NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. She was the program coordinator of the master of education in English at NHL Stenden until 2012 and co-authored the national curriculum for this degree program. In 2010 she started teaching English as a foreign language methodology at the University of Groningen. Her work as a teacher educator sparked her interest in applied linguistics, especially language teaching methodology. As a teacher educator for in-service and pre-service teachers of English Nienke sat in the back of many lessons to observe her students and provide them with feedback. She also designed and taught professional development courses for Content and Language Integrated Learning. Her curiosity in trying to understand what teachers and learners do to co-construct a learning process has resulted in this dissertation.
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Publications (peer-reviewed)
- Smit, N., van Dijk, M., de Bot, K. & Lowie, W. (2021). The Complex Dynamics of Adaptive Teaching. International Review of Applied Linguistics.
- Smit, N. van de Grift, W., de Bot, K., & Jansen, E. (2017). A classroom observation tool for scaffolding reading comprehension. System, 65, 117-129. https://doi.org/(...) j.system.2016.12.014
- de Wolf, S., Smit, N., & Lowie, W. (2017). Influences of early English language teaching on oral fluency. ELT Journal, 71(3), 341-353. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ ccw115
- Smit, Nienke, Van Dijk, Marijn, de Bot, Kees & Lowie, Wander (submitted). In the Zone? Analyzing stability of attractor states in teacher-student interaction. - Smit, Nienke, Van Dijk, Marijn, de Bot, Kees & Lowie, Wander. (accepted). The
Teacher’s Turn: teachers’ perceptions of observed patterns of classroom interaction. Conference presentations (international)
- Smit, Nienke, van Dijk, Marijn, de Bot, Kees. (2019) The Dynamics of Teacher-Student interaction in the L2 classroom. Paper presented in the symposium Research Methods for Applied Linguistics at AAAL, Atlanta, United States. - Smit, Nienke, de Bot, Kees, & van de Grift, Wim. (2016). Using State Space Grids
to analyze the dynamics of teacher-student interactions in foreign language classrooms. Paper presented at AAAL - American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando, United States.
Poster presentations (international)
- Smit, Nienke, de Bot, Kees, Van de Grift, Wim & Jansen, Ellen. (2014). An Observation Tool for EFL Reading Comprehension Teaching Strategies. Poster presented at the annual American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Portland (OR), US
Professional papers
- Smit, Nienke, & van Dijk, Marijn. (2018). Horen, Zien en vragen: op zoek naar rijke talige interactie in de Engelse les. Levende Talen, 78-81.
