Another Week, Another Conference

by Jaclyn Yuro | Jun 21, 2018 | Radboud University, Radboud University 2018

This week I had the chance to attend another psycholinguistic conference in Nijmegen! This workshop was called “Formulaic Language Processing and Acquisition Research (FLIPR)” and was hosted by the Idiomatic Second Language Acquisition group. The speakers...

Fridays are for food trucks (and testing)

by Jaclyn Yuro | Jun 20, 2018 | Radboud University, Radboud University 2018

Last Friday was my final day testing at one of the three schools I have been testing at!!! As wonderful as that feels, it is such a strange thing to look back and realize that my PIRE experience is slowly coming to an end. The children participating in my study have...

“So are you a PhD student?”: IMPRS Conference Edition

by Jaclyn Yuro | Jun 8, 2018 | Radboud University, Radboud University 2018

If I had a dollar (or a euro, maybe) for every time I was asked this question throughout the IMPRS conference this week, I would probably have enough money to buy all of the stroopwafels in the Netherlands. Yet, although a flattering question, the awkward transition...

The Hague: The Jersey Shore of the Netherlands

by Jaclyn Yuro | May 29, 2018 | Radboud University, Radboud University 2018

Okay so maybe that’s not what they call it… but as a Jersey girl I couldn’t help but to be excited by the small taste of a New Jersey summer that I felt at Scheveningen in The Hague (or Den Haag) last weekend while exploring this new city with...

First Day of Testing!!!

by Jaclyn Yuro | May 27, 2018 | Radboud University, Radboud University 2018

The day has finally come! After preparing all of the materials, testing the experiment, recruiting schools, visiting the participating schools, and creating a schedule, I have officially started testing my first few participants!! On Thursday, I was up before the sun...

From London, to Ibiza, to Rome and everywhere in between

by Dorothy Lila Schaadt | Jul 23, 2016 | 2016, Rabdoud University 2016, Radboud University

There’s no denying that Europe is a great place to travel. With everything being so (relatively) close, and the abundance of low budget airlines, I have been able to take advantage of my time here and have traveled somewhere almost every weekend. Travel has also...