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Timo Ahlers

Research

Research interests

Digital linguistics: educational technologies: digital game-based language learning of grammar and orthography, corpus linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, communication in virtual reality, eye-tracking
 
Multilingualism & language contact: tandem learning of German as a foreign language (GFL), variety contact in German, syntax and pragmatics in intercultural communication, emergence of grammar

Cognitive linguistics of German: variety acquisition, perception and production of syntactic variation, multimodality in conversation, embodied cognition: motor semantics of German touch verbs

Research Group

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

Projects

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"Sprachwissenschaftliche Methoden der Deutschdidaktik für den Quer- und Seiteneinstieg in der Grundschule (SpraDi-WiQi)", funded by University of Potsdam, Faculty of Human Sciences, 2023.
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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.

Experiments & surveys 

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 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)
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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)
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Eye-tracking experiment: Variation of eye-hand coordination in action verbs.
Survey period: June 2016 (closed)
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Team dialogues in computer games.
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
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Variation in the motor-semantics of action verbs in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Survey period: May - June 2015 (closed) 
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Evolution of Grammar in Non-Verbal Communication. The Turtle Game. 
Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
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Eye tracking: Visual behavior in relative-clause perception
Survey period: 
October 2014 (closed)
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Online experiment: Syntactic saliency in Austrian dialects
Survey period: March - June 2013 (closed)
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