Participating scientists/promotion students
Participating scientists/promotion students
Advanced language acquisition research cluster
There are clear challenges from an educational perspective that require a closer look at the relationships between language acquisition, reading skills, school success and the role of various factors (such as multilingualism, social background, special educational needs). This research must be interdisciplinary, because although individual disciplines can address partial aspects of these challenges (such as factors for successful language acquisition, the influence of multilingualism on language acquisition, which linguistic phenomena are complex and why, how certain linguistic aspects develop), only jointly planned and conducted research can lead to a better understanding of the complex interrelationships.
This is why this research cluster is interdisciplinary in nature: So far, linguists, language didacticians and special needs teachers have been working together. We would like to ask other interested colleagues to make contact with the spokesperson:
Scientists
Prof Dr Esther Ruigendijk (Spokesperson)
Dutch linguistics
Institute of Dutch Studies, School III
Research focus:
- Psycholinguistics
- Language acquisition
- Language processing
- Language disorders
- Speech and hearing
- Code Switching
Prof Dr Juliana Goschler
German as a foreign language/German as a second language
Institute for German Studies, School III
Research focus:
- Second and foreign language acquisition, dual first language acquisition
- Contrastive linguistics and transfer phenomena in language learning language learning
- Linguistic heterogeneity in educational contexts
- Linguistic characteristics of educational language, language in specialised teaching
Prof Dr Tanja Jungmann
Language and communication and their special educational support with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, School I
Research focus:
- Professionalisation of educational professionals and teachers in inclusive settings
- Evidence-based early help and early education concepts
- Diagnosis and promotion of language and literacy skills
Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
Didactics of the German language
Institute for German Studies, School III
Research focus:
- Adaptive language behaviour
- Development-sensitive writing didactics
- Teacher language, language of instruction and classroom communication
- Language in the subject
- Tension between oral and written language, operationalisation of conceptual written language
- Easy language
- German didactic teacher research
Prof Dr Ulla Licandro
Heterogeneity and diversity with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, School I
Research focus:
- Language acquisition with multilingualism
- Everyday integrated and inclusive language support
- Peer interactions in (inclusive) teaching-learning processes
- Gestural communication development
- Diagnostics and intervention for language development disorders
Prof Dr Jörg Peters
Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics/Low German
Institute for German Studies, School III
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Research focus:
- Phonetics and phonology incl. prosody
- Variety linguistics
- Multilingualism and language contact
- Low German and Sater Frisian
Prof Dr Marcel Schlechtweg
English Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Processing
Institute of English and American Studies, School III
Research focus:
- Psycholinguistics / Language Processing / Language Acquisition
- Phonetics and phonology
- Morphology and morphosyntax
Prof Dr Katharina Schuhmann
German as a foreign language
Institute for German Studies, School III
Research focus:
- Foreign and second language acquisition
- Psycholinguistics and language contact phenomena (acoustic-phonetic, phonological and morphological aspects)
- Theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology)
Doctoral candidates
Concept for promoting young talent
Students are to be introduced to the research focus of the cluster by offering interdisciplinary courses and organising and supervising interdisciplinary theses. Students can also carry out small student research projects in the field of advanced language acquisition in the research and development internship and in the project band, which are supervised by members of the cluster.
Early career researchers with a research interest in advanced language acquisition can take part in the cluster's regular exchange meetings and workshops. They are encouraged to critically discuss and reflect on their own research projects together with the other members of the cluster and to develop further cooperative projects. Doctoral theses in the research focus can be supervised by members of the cluster on an interdisciplinary basis.