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TEACHING & SUPERVISION

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Main areas of research (and supervision)

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  • Second language acquisition

    • ​The interplay of cognitive, socio-affective, linguistic, and instructional factors
      at play in early second language acquisition

    • Age and aging as explanatory factors of differences in L2 acquisition (such
      as effects of an earlier vs. later starting age in school contexts; additional
      language learning in the third age)

    • Intra-individual variation in L2 development from psycholinguistic and
      sociolinguistic perspectives

    • Theoretical and methodical challenges for empirical research, in particular
      causal and mechanism theories of explanation as a means of satisfying a
      psychological need as well as of contributing to explaining prediction, control,
      and other dimensions of research
       

  • Foreign language (especially EFL) learning

    • ​Bilingual education (CLIL, immersion)

    • Contextual factors such as family circumstance, classroom effects, and demographic changes

    • EFL in the digital age, such as the use of domestic technologies and L2 learning software
       

  • Psycholinguistics

    • Dyslexia and additional language learning (incl. the development of learning software)

    • Aphasia in young adults in school settings
       

  • Multilingualism

    • ​Effects of L1 literacy and biliteracy

    • The bilingual (cognitive) advantage

    • Migration backgrounds

    • The role bidialectalism in L2 learning

    • Identity construction in cross-cultural couples

  • Contrastive linguistics (German/English)

  • Grammaticalization from a cognitive perspective (e.g. psycholinguistic mechanisms driving language change)

PhD theses supervised

2022 – present

Audrey Ziehli: “L2 development and the cognition-affect interface across retirement” (working title)

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2026 – present

Sandra Baltensperger (joint supervision with Nathalie Giroud): "VR-Based Exposure Intervention for Emotion Regulation, Sensory Over-Responsivity, and Anxiety in Autistic Adolescent Inpatients" (working title)

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2026 – present

Angela Schlatter (joint supervision with Stefan Keller): title tba

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2026 – present

Luka Galjer (joint supervision with Eva Zehentner): title tba

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2024 – present

Ronja Zimmermann (joint supervision with Daniel Schreier): "Language Attitudes in the Swiss Anglophone Diaspora" (working title)

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2024 – present

Bethany Dallas (joint supervision with Marianne Hundt): "Practice makes perfect: Teaching machines the semantics of aspects" (working title)

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2023 – present

Esmee Miron Aalders (joint supervision with Moritz Daum): "The effect of language and environmental diversity on children's speech"

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2022 – present

Christine Parrott-Gräppi (joint supervision with Adrian Leemann): "Phonetic features in Swiss German: A cross-sectional analysis of prosodic features”​

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2022 – present

Annika Rossmanith: “L2 development as a function of the social construction of age across retirement” (working title)
 

2020 – present

Julia Weissenböck: “Boosting Speaking and 21st Century Skills Through Speaking Vlogs”
 

2018 – 2024

Tamara Johnson: “Similar wording, similar perception? A cognitive linguistic study of food labels”

 

2018 – 2023

Mason Wirtz: “Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation in Adult L2 Sociolinguistic Repertoires: Dynamics of Linguistic, Socioaffective and Cognitive Factors” (co-supervision with Andrea Ender and Irmtraud Kaiser)

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2018 – 2021

Maria Kliesch: “New languages and old brains: A dynamic approach to language learning in third age” (co-supervision w/ Elisabeth Stark, Martin Meyer and Volker Dellwo)

PhD mentoring

2023 – 2025

Evelyn Roth (Salzburg): "Erwerb der berufsorientierten Fremdsprachenkompetenzen im Fach Englisch an berufsbildenden Schulen in der Schweiz"

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2022 – present

Veronika Cook-Jeltsch (PH Zürich): "Erwerb der berufsorientierten Fremdsprachenkompetenzen im Fach Englisch an berufsbildenden Schulen in der Schweiz"​

Doctoral programs

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Summer 2021: International BaTEG Summer School, Bamberg, Germany ("Multilingualism in the Classroom", 23-24 September 2021 (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/zlb/k-r/bateg/zlb-k-r-bateg-zlb-k-r-bateg-summer-
school/

 

Summer 2021: LOT Summer School 2021, KU Leuven, June 28-July 9, 2021 (https://lotschool.nl/events/lot-summer-school-2021/)

 

Winter 2019: PhD program on "Learning, teaching and assessment of Swedish and English: Multilingualism as an asset and a challenge" (University of Stockholm, Sweden)

 

Fall 2018: DissertantInnenseminar (research seminar for doctoral students), doctoral school "Linguistics: Contact, variation, change" (University of Salzburg)

 

Summer 2017: EUROMEC Jean Monnet Summer School on "European Identity, Culture, Exchanges and Multilingualism", Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (10-15 July, 2017)

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