Publications

Keijzer, M. (in prep). Language reversion in elderly immigrants. Applied Linguistics.
Keijzer, M., & Kootstra, G-J (in prep). The relation between code-switching and inhibitory control in Dutch-English elderly bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Boon, N.A., Keijzer, M., & de Rooij, S. (submitted). Healthy aging and lexical retrieval: Geriatric patients‘ performance on verbal fluency tests. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.

Van der Ploeg, M., Willemsen, A., Richter, L., Keijzer, M., & Koole, T. (2022). Requests for assistance in the third-age language classroom. Classroom Discourse
Van den Berg, F., Brouwer, J., Tienkamp, T.B., Verhagen, J., & Keijzer, M. Language Entropy Relates to Behavioral and Pupil Indices of Executive Control in Young Adult Bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, (13)
Gastmann, F., & Poarch, G.J. Cross-language activation during word recognition in child second-language learners and the role of executive function. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (221)

Nijmeijer, S. E. , van Tol, M.-J. , Aleman, A. & Keijzer, M. (2021). Foreign Language Learning as Cognitive Training to Prevent Old Age Disorders? Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Language Training vs. Musical Training and Social Interaction in Elderly With Subjective Cognitive Decline. Front. Aging Neurosci.

Brouwer, J., van den Berg, F., Knooihuizen, R., Loerts, H., & Keijzer, M. (2020). Exploring language learning as a potential tool against cognitive impairment in late-life depression: two meta-analyses and suggestions for further research. Behavioral Sciences 10(9), 132.
van der Ploeg, M., Keijzer, M., & Lowie, W. (in press). Methodological concerns and their solutions in third-age language learning studies. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2019). Unlearning and relearning of languages from childhood to late adulthood. In: Ortega, L. & de Houwer, A. (Eds.), Handbook of Bilingualism (pp. 267-285). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pot, A., Porkert, J., & Keijzer, M. (2019). The Bidirectional in Bilingual: Cognitive, Social and Linguistic Effects of and on Third-Age Language Learning. Behavioral Sciences, 9(9).

Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2018). Intensity of multilingual language use predicts cognitive performance of in some multilingual older adults. Brain Sciences, 8(5), 92.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). The language barrier in migrant aging. International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). Do low L2 abilities impede healthy aging for migrant older adults in the Netherlands. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(1), 109-120.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M. & de Bot, K. (2018). De taalbarrière bij oudere Turkse vrouwen nader onderzocht. Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 49(6), 274-282.

Keijzer, M. & Schmid, M.S. (2017). Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals. In Bialystok, E., & Sullivan, M. (Eds.), Bilingualism and Aging (pp.77-98). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Pot, A., Keijzer, M., & de Bot, K. (2017). Enhancing language awareness in migrants‘ third age to promote wellbeing. In: Gabryś-Barker, D. (Ed.), Third Age Learners of Foreign Lanugages. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Keijzer, M. & Schmid, M.S. (2016). Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals. In Aging and Bilingualism. Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6(1/2), Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan. (pp. 64–85).

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2013). Working memory capacity, inhibitory control and the role of L2 proficiency in aging L1 Dutch-English speakers of near-native L2 English. Brain Sciences (Special Issue: Brain & Language), 3, 1261-1281.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2010). The regression hypothesis as a theoretical framework for first language attrition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13(1), 9-18.

Schmid, M.S. & Keijzer, M.C.J. (2009). First language attrition and reversion among older migrants. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2009(200), 83-101.

Keijzer, M.C.J. (2007). Last in First out? An investigation of the regression hypothesis in Dutch emigrants in Anglophone Canada. Utrecht: LOT dissertation series no. 163.
Köpke, B., Schmid, M.S., Keijzer, M. & Dostert, S. (Eds.) (2007). Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Schmid, M.S., Köpke, B., Keijzer, M.C.J. & Weilemar, L. (Eds.) (2004). First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Keijzer, M.C.J. (2004). First language attrition: A cross-linguistic investigation of Jakobson’s regression hypothesis. International Journal of Bilingualism, 8(3), 398-394.