Tom Van Hout

Current

• Research assistant at Ghent University

Past

• research and teaching assistant at University of Antwerp

Education

• Universiteit Gent
• Universiteit Antwerpen
• Universiteit Antwerpen

• Universiteit Antwerpen
• sint norbertus

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Websites

• NewsTalk&Text
• Discourse in Organizations
• Aloxe Corton

Tom Van Hout’s Summary

I'm an applied linguist with a primary research interest in organizational discourse. My PhD is an ethnographic account of business reporters' sourcing practices. Using a methodological mix of newsroom ethnography and keystroke logging, I document how business journalists write from (corporate) sources.

Other research interests include discourse analysis, LSP and language assessment. I have taught undergraduate business English and English composition courses at two Flemish universities. I am a native speaker of Dutch, a CPE C2 certified speaker of English and have lower degrees of competence in French, German and Spanish.

Tom Van Hout’s Specialties:

qualitative and quantitative applied linguistic research, ethnography, business news, PR, news production, newswriting, discourse analysis, pragmatics, writing and editing, language teaching, language testing

Tom Van Hout’s Experience

• Research assistant

  Ghent University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Research:
  Conducted 6 months of fieldwork at a newsroom in Flanders; Co-founded NewsTalk&Text, a research group on news production; Presented at international conferences; Published research in national and international peer-reviewed journals
  
  Teaching:
  Guest-lectured at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Lessius University College (Belgium) and the University of Milan (Italy);
  Taught weekly Business English classes in 2nd year undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
  
  Academic service:
  Organized panels at international conferences; Organized a workshop series on discourse in organizations; Editor of Tekstblad, a popular communication journal (in Dutch); Participated in ETS benchmarking workshop in Berlin (October 2006); Guest-edited a special issue on discourse in organizations; Co-designed and taught a news management seminar at Stichting Lezen (Belgium)

• research and teaching assistant

  University of Antwerp

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  September 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 10 months)

  Research:
  Developed a reading proficiency test for the Flemish Ministry of Education; Conducted experimental research on clause combining strategies in English and Dutch; Co-founded Discourse in Organizations, an interuniversity research group on organizational discourse; Co-organized an international conference on discourse in organizations.
  
  Teaching:
  Taught undergraduate courses in English composition (Faculty of Arts) and Business English (Faculty of Applied Economics)
  
  Academic service:
  Updated the Pragmatics Bibliography at the IPrA Research Center

Tom Van Hout’s Education

• Universiteit Gent

  PhD, linguistics, ethnography, journalism, 2005 — 2009 (expected)

  My PhD research is an ethnographic account of business reporters' sourcing practices, i.e. how journalists use (corporate) sources to write business news.

• Universiteit Antwerpen

  Journalism Training Certificate, Journalism, newswriting, 2003 — 2003

• Universiteit Antwerpen

  Teacher Training, Education, LSP, 2000 — 2001

• Universiteit Antwerpen

  MA Germanic Languages, Linguistics, 1997 — 2001

• sint norbertus

  1991 — 1996

Additional Information

Tom Van Hout’s Websites:

• NewsTalk&Text
• Discourse in Organizations
• Aloxe Corton

Tom Van Hout’s Interests:

research, science, linguistics, discourse analysis, ethnography, triathlon, basketball, wine, soul & jazz, the West Indies

Tom Van Hout’s Groups:

NewsTalk&Text, Discourse in Organizations, TriKa, IPrA, BCAT, UCAS, IronTeam, BBC Hoboken

•    NewsTalk&Text
•    Universiteit Antwerpen - University of Antwerp
•    Antwerpen takes care of its Athletes

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