Research interests
- Didactics of German: language awareness in elementary school education, written language acquisition, orthography and grammar didactics
- Educational technologies: digital game-based language learning of grammar and orthography, design-based research of tablet apps, tandem learning in Social VR
- Language Variation: variation of German syntax and morphology, variety contact, variety acquisition
- Cognitive Linguistics: embodied cognition: motor semantics of verbs, multimodal discourse analysis using mobile eye-tracking, learning of grammar and orthography
Projects
Teaching project (submitted): "Rechtschreibung Lernen und Lehren intensiv (RELLi)", submitted at Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, Freiraum 2025 (applicants: Guido Nottbusch, Timo Ahlers)
"Sprachwissenschaftliche Methodendatenbank Deutschdidaktik für den Quer- und Seiteneinstieg in der Grundschule (SpraDi-WiQi)", funded by University of Potsdam, Faculty of Human Sciences, 2023. Current survey: https://umfragenup.uni-potsdam.de/SpraDi-WiQi/ (survey period: ongoing)
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Project "Hololingo! – Immersives Sprachtandemlernen in Social-VR", University of Potsdam / University of Hildesheim, funded by Stifterverband - Jubiläumsinitiative "Wirkung hoch 100", 12/2020-03/2022.
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Co-opted researcher at the project "The Humanities in Virtual Reality (HumaniVR) - Developing Methodologies and Applications of VR Technology", University of Hildesheim, funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture in Lower Saxony - PRO*Niedersachen program (2021-2023), head: Dr. Karsten Senkbeil.
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Research Group
Hololingo! - Interdisciplinary Research Group on Language Learning in Social Virtual Reality, Universities of Hildesheim, Marburg & Potsdam
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Experiments & surveys
Survey "Ermittlung von Bedarfen sprachwissenschaftlicher Methoden bei Quer- und Seiteneinsteiger:innen im Lehramt Primarstufe - Deutsch"
The results will be used in the development of the database "Sprachwissenschaftliche Methodendatenbank Deutschdidaktik für den Quer- und Seiteneinstieg in der Grundschule (SpraDi-WiQi)".
https://umfragenup.uni-potsdam.de/SpraDi-WiQi/
(survey period: 15.01.2024 - open)
The results will be used in the development of the database "Sprachwissenschaftliche Methodendatenbank Deutschdidaktik für den Quer- und Seiteneinstieg in der Grundschule (SpraDi-WiQi)".
https://umfragenup.uni-potsdam.de/SpraDi-WiQi/
(survey period: 15.01.2024 - open)
Mobile eye tracking in multimodal tandem communication
in cooperative Lego construction tasks
Pilot study 2019 (closed)
in cooperative Lego construction tasks
Pilot study 2019 (closed)
Tandem Learning in Social Virtual Reality
Survey period May 2019 (closed)
Survey period May 2019 (closed)
SVR-App-Project "Hololingo!"
Workgroup on Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) in Social Virtual Reality (SVR)
Workgroup on Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) in Social Virtual Reality (SVR)
Survey on learning German in a foreign country
Survey period: September - October 2018 (closed)
Survey period: September - October 2018 (closed)
Eye-tracking experiment: Variation of eye-hand coordination in action verbs.
Survey period: June 2016 (closed)
Survey period: June 2016 (closed)
Team dialogues in computer games.
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
Variation in the motor-semantics of action verbs in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Survey period: May - June 2015 (closed)
Survey period: May - June 2015 (closed)
Evolution of Grammar in Non-Verbal Communication. The Turtle Game.
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
Eye tracking: Visual behavior in relative-clause perception
Survey period: October 2014 (closed)
Survey period: October 2014 (closed)
Online experiment: Syntactic saliency in Austrian dialects
Survey period: March - June 2013 (closed)
Survey period: March - June 2013 (closed)