- Linguistic research and analysis
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Education Methods and Technologies
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Reading and Literacy Development
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Gender Studies in Language
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Digital Communication and Language
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- German Literature and Culture Studies
- Classical Studies and Philology
- Historical Studies on Spain
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
Pädagogische Hochschule Bern
2020-2024
University of Education Schwaebisch Gmuend
2015
South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences
2014
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts
2014
The study described in this article investigates the identification of phraseological neologisms German based on a combination methods and resources.Detecting is difficult task.In general, detecting phrasemes corpora hampered by their low number occurrences.Most contain written language; there are almost no big spoken suitable for phraseme detection.However, expected to first occur language before being encountered texts (Burger 2010).Based general definition neologisms, suggested.A...
Zusammenfassung Kinder mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache zeigen im Vergleich zu monolingualen, deutschsprachigen Kindern eklatante Defizite beim Lesen, so auch in der vorliegenden Studie. Untersucht wurde die Rolle verschiedener Wortschatzaspekte an Zweitklässlern Erst- ( N = 351) und 54). Der Effekt des Faktors Wortschatz auf das Lesen erwies sich insgesamt signifikant. Wenn kontrolliert wurde, zeigte kein Leistungsgefälle mehr zwischen den Gruppen. Die auffällige relationalen Wortwissens für...
Hrisztova-Gotthard studied in Sofia, Bulgaria, followed by a research fellowship Basel, Switzerland, and doctorate Pe ´cs, Hungary.In her dissertation, Vom gedruckten Sprichwo ¨rterbuch zur interaktiven Sprichwortdatenbank (From printed proverb dictionary to interactive database), she addresses phraseologists' common complaint about the poor representation of phrasemes dictionaries.To resolve issue, proposes use databases, making suggestions for design multilingual version Bulgarian,...
Zusammenfassung Gegenstand dieses Beitrags sind im mentalen Lexikon gespeicherte Wortschatzinformationen. Neben dem häufig untersuchten Bereich des Wortschatzumfangs wird auch das aus angloamerikanischen Sprachraum stammende Konstrukt der Wortschatzqualität oder -tiefe einbezogen. Untersuchungen verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen füllen unterschiedlich, z. B. durch die Differenziertheit semantischen Wissens Netzwerkwissen (i. e. Wissen über Relation eines Lexems zu anderen). Wir betrachten eine...
Background In countries with German as an official language, children a second language perform overall worse in school than their native speaking peers. This particularly affects written skills, which require advanced knowledge. The reasons are manifold, but one is prominent, namely poor vocabulary Vocabulary, however, consists not only of the number known words also complex and hitherto under‐researched lexico‐semantic framework, referred to depth. Method present study, sample 373 (322...
This paper intends to show the importance of having linguistic instruments, principally semantic ones, for determining meaning words with greatest precision and, consequently, managing meticulously establish different meanings a dictionary's entry words. As an example, new definition Spanish verb mezclar ('to mix') will b Since beginning publication atlas German-speaking Switzerland (Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz, SDS) in early 1960s individual linguists collected contemporary material...
Abstract Well-developed vocabulary skills are crucial for effective communication. Didactically speaking, it is therefore essential to explicitly foster the development of lexical competence in classroom. This applies both learners German as a first and second language. The design systematic activities should aim increase quality quantity learners‘ word knowledge ensure long-term retention acquired words. While various approaches exist teaching foreign language teaching, targeted supporting...
Abstract During the development of reading skills in primary school, children begin to make guesses about unfamiliar words when a text. This process lexical inference is an important source new vocabulary acquisition. In present study, 55 with wide range and knowledge were asked infer meaning unknown (i.e., pseudowords) inserted into short story provide insight their inferencing processes. The results show that use variety cues. While learners higher tend be more successful inferencers rely...
The three volumes of History Language Learning and Teaching offer a significant contribution to the “emerging interdisciplinary, intercultural plurilinguistic” (vol. 1: 1) research area ...
Over the past ten to fifteen years, web-based methods of sociological research have emerged alongside classical such as interviews, observations and experiments, linguistic is increasingly relying upon them well. This paper provides an overview three approaches, i.e. online surveys, crowd-sourcing corpus analyses. Examples from specific projects serve reflect these methods, address their potential limitations, make a critical appraisal. Internet-based empirical produces vast highly diverse...
Exploring New High German texts for evidence of phrasemesMost dictionaries containing phraseological information are restricted to a synchronic perspective.Diachronic on structural, semantic, and pragmatic change over time has be reconstructed by time-consuming consultation various providing only punctual insights.In the OLdPhras, project we construct an online dictionary diachronic phraseology in from ca. 1650 present combining exploration with corpus-based methods.This paper highlights...
The concept of pluricentricity -introduced by Michael Clyne in its modern form -is widely accepted for the German language area.It states that is an official three nations -Germany, Switzerland and Austria -where it has evolved into discrete standard varieties.This also reflected lexicography, e.g. Variantenwo ¨rterbuch des Deutschen, which lists national lexical variants from countries.Despite agreement on pluricentricity, there controversy among linguists about what determines geographical...
Didaktik Deutsch : Halbjahresschrift fur die der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 21 (2016) 40, S. 20-40 Padagogische Teildisziplin: Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft; Fachdidaktik/Sprache Literatur;