Lies Sercu (°1966) is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Leuven. She studied Germanic Languages (English and
German). In 1998, she received her PhD in Linguistics from the
University of Leuven. From 1998 till 2003, she worked as a
postdoctoral researcher at the K.U.Leuven. In 2003, she obtained a
tenure post as a junior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics of
the K.U.Leuven, and was asked to teach a Master’s course in Second
and Foreign Language Acquisition, beside foreign language teaching
methodology courses .