Curriculum vitae

Martine Braaksma (1971) studied Dutch Language and Culture at the University of Groningen and graduated on a study about navigation strategies in hypertext. Subsequently she attended teacher training at the University of Groningen and graduated cum laude. She took her PhD at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning of the University of Amsterdam (1996-2002) in the field of writing education and published a thesis, several articles and a book chapter.

Since 2002, she performs a review study about empirical studies about the subject Dutch in secondary education in the Netherlands, Flanders, and Surinam. This project is funded by de Nederlandse Taalunie , Stichting Lezen, and ILO.

She is a member of the Research Group in Language & Literature Education of the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, involved in projects on 'Hypertext writing', ‘Literary reading processes’ and a review study on empirical studies about the subject Dutch in secondary education.  In the school year 2002-2003, she taught part time at a school for secondary education in Amsterdam. During the years 2003 - 2005 she was part of the research team of Prof. dr. Michael Cole (LCHC) at the University of California, San Diego.

In 2005 she started a post doc project in writing education: Writing hypertext, learning and transfer effects. This project is funded by Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Grant NWO 411-03-115).

With Fillia Kostouli (Greece), she is an editor of L1 Research archives online which contains conference papers, reports, theses and other research material concerning L1 teaching and learning across many different languages.

In 2008, she started teaching a course Communication to master students Biology and Science at the University of Amsterdam.