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Gert Rijlaarsdam

Dr. Gert Rijlaarsdam is a prestigious scholar working in language education and writing research within composition studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Before obtaining a position as a professor at the University of Amsterdam, Dr. Rijlaarsdam received an MA in Dutch Language and Literature and an MA in Education Studies at Leiden University, and earned his PhD at UvA. Dr. Rijlaarsdam completed his dissertation on an empirical study that focused on how feedback received during peer tutoring sessions affected student writing.

The scholarly interests of Dr. Rijlaarsdam center largely around language education. He demonstrates a particular focus on foreign language education in his studies on learning processes of learners of a second language and strategic foreign language learning.

Dr. Rijlaarsdam has achieved the position of a full professor at UvA; he is a current faculty member in the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (GSTL) at UvA. Previously, he has been a professor in Language Education at Utrecht University. The innovations that Dr. Rijlaarsdam has faciliated at UvA include his move to a new curriculum in teacher training from 2006-2008, which he redesigned to make it more efficient for the university and its students.

Dr. Rijlaarsdam has researched and designed courses for Teacher Trainees of Modern Languages and Dutch as mother tongue, of Dutch Language and Literature, of Latin and Greek. Since 2006 he has been the program coordinator of the post-initial teacher training: Design Research and Practice-Oriented Research. He has also been a visiting professor at the Université de Bourgogne, Athens University, Umeå University-Sweden, Hong Kong University, Patras University in Greece, Can Tho University in Vietnam, and Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.

Dr. Rijlaarsdam has published many works throughout his career; his peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as Learning and Instruction, Learning to Write Effectively: Current Trends in European Research, The British Journal of Educational Psychology, and the APA Educational Psychology Handbook. He has also authored and coauthored several books, including Theories, Models and Methodology in Writing Research (1996) and Towards Strategic Language Learning (1995). From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Rijlaarsdam has served as an editor for the magazine Studies in writing, and also edited the Journal of Writing Research and L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature (2010), along with the International Journal of Applied Linguistics in 2008.