Research interests

Digital game-based language learning: educational technologies, development of grammar and orthography apps, tandem learning of German as L2 in social virtual reality

Didactics of German: orthography and grammar in elementary school education, written language acquisition, design-based research in higher education

Cognitive variationist linguistics: variety contact and acquisition, perception and production of syntactic variation, corpus linguistics, pragmatics in intercultural multimodal communication, enactivist embodied cognition: motor semantics of German touch verbs, multimodal discourse analysis, eye-tracking

Research Group

Hololingo! - Interdisciplinary Research Group on Language Learning in Social Virtual Reality, Universities of Hildesheim, Marburg & Potsdam

Projects

"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: 28.06.2023 - open)

Project "Hololingo! – Immersives Sprachtandemlernen in Social-VR", University of Potsdam / University of Hildesheim, funded by Stifterverband - Jubiläumsinitiative "Wirkung hoch 100", 12/2020-03/2022.

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.

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: 28.06.2023 - open)

 Mobile eye tracking in multimodal tandem communication
in cooperative Lego construction tasks
Pilot study 2019 (closed)

Tandem Learning in Social Virtual Reality
Survey period May 2019 (closed)

SVR-App-Project "Hololingo!"
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)

Eye-tracking experiment: Variation of eye-hand coordination in action verbs.
Survey period: June 2016 (closed)

Team dialogues in computer games.
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)

Variation in the motor-semantics of action verbs in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Survey period: May - June 2015 (closed) 

Evolution of Grammar in Non-Verbal Communication. The Turtle Game. 
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)

Eye tracking: Visual behavior in relative-clause perception
Survey period: October 2014 (closed)

Online experiment: Syntactic saliency in Austrian dialects
Survey period: March - June 2013 (closed)