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
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
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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.
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Experiments & surveys
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)
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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)