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Dr. Nina Sangers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, within the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences. Her research focuses on narrative and voice elements in educational materials, corpus studies of textbooks, and student engagement strategies. She explores how linguistic features like vividness and narrative structures influence learning outcomes and pedagogical practices.
Key research areas include educational content design, textbook analysis, and language acquisition, with a particular emphasis on Dutch educational contexts. Her work bridges linguistics, cognitive science, and pedagogy, addressing topics such as syntactic processing, motivational factors in reading, and publisher policies.
Recent projects include studies on reading behavior in higher education, narrative strategies in adult language education, and the implicit processing of passive constructions in child language. She collaborates with institutions like Stichting Lezen and co-authored reports on NT2 (Dutch as a Second Language) teaching practices.
Nina teaches courses such as B-these Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Leerling, Onderwijs en Begeleiding, and Pedagogische- en Didactische Principes, emphasizing practical applications of her research. Her work is characterized by interdisciplinary methods, combining corpus linguistics, experimental studies, and qualitative analyses.
