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I specialize in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. My research approach draws on my training in usage-based linguistics, which incorporates corpus linguistic methods and behavioral experiments to study language use and acquisition. Over time, my research methodology has evolved to be more closely aligned with the practical aspects of language education. I now design controlled studies with ecologically valid interventions, drawing on my experience as a foreign language educator. Specifically, my focus is on understanding the interlinked effects of input and instructions on language learning. Through this approach, I aim to address questions that are directly relevant to language teaching, while also drawing conclusions that are relevant to both the fields of linguistics and language education.
| 2023 | “What foreign language learners make of grammatical descriptions depends on description type, proficiency, and context.” In Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Version of Record published online: 30 May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00149.jac |
| 2022 | “Korpus Einfaches Deutsch: Materialgrundlage für die daten-getriebene Lehre von Deutsch als fremder Bildungssprache auf niedrigem Sprachniveau.” In Didactica, Cultura, Lingua - Perspektiven des Deutschen, edited by Yuan Li, Fang Liu, and Zhongxin Wang, 231–44. München: Iudicium. https://www.iudicium.de/katalog/86205-638.htm. |
| “QuAX-DaF. Quantitative Linguistik trifft Fremdsprachenlehre.” Zielsprache Deutsch 48 (3): 21–38. | |
| 2021 | “Revisiting German Two-Way Prepositions. Towards a Usage-Based Account of Case.” Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft 40 (2): 95–133. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2021-2029. |
| “Something I Was Dealing with. Preposition Placement in Multilingual Constructicons.” In Language Change, Multilingual Practices, and Additional Language Acquisition, edited by Hans Boas and Steffen Höder, 340–74. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.30.11jac. | |
| 2018 | “A Usage-Based Approach to Preposition Placement in English as a Second Language.” Language Learning 68 (1): 271–304. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12277. |
| 2023 | “Wissenschaftssprachliche Textsorten meistern: Eine korpusgestützte digitale Lehr- und Lernressource für Studierende von Deutsch als Fremdsprache und verwandter Fächer” (Mastering academic text types: A corpus-based digital teaching and learning resource for students of German as a foreign language and related subjects). DAAD-Lektorentreffen 2023, Shanghai, December 01-03. |
| “Wie Wörter lehren? Gebrauchsbasierte und bedeutungsorientierte Wortschatzarbeit” (How to teach words? Usage-based and meaning-oriented vocabulary work). 2023 EAC German Sub-Committee National German Teacher Development Seminar, Hangzhou, March 3-5. | |
| “Gebrauchsbasierte und bedeutungsorientierte Wortschatzarbeit” (Usage-Based and Meaning-Oriented Vocabulary Training) at the annual meeting of the DAAD lecturers in China, Beijing, June 02-04. | |
| 2022 | “What learners make of grammatical descriptions” (audio recording). EuroSLA 31 - The 31st Conference of the European Second Language Association, Fribourg, August 24-27. |
| “QuAX-DaF. Quantitative Linguistik trifft Fremdsprachenlehre online” (QuAX-Daf. Quantitative Linguistics meets foreign language teaching online.). IDT 2022 - XVII. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer, Vienna, August 15-20. | |
| “Different types of grammatical description affect foreign language learning differently depending on proficiency and context”. Modern Linguistics and Language Didactics (LiDi 2022), Kassel (online), April 28-29. | |
| “Foreign language learners’ ability to use grammatical descriptions changes with type, proficiency, and context”. 22. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Oldenburg (online), April 07-08. | |
| 2021 | “Vom didaktischen Nutzen grammatischer Beschreibungen”. Forschungskolloquium School of International Studies of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, October 10. |
| “The Case of German Two-Way Prepositions”. 5th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr 2021), Lancashire (online), July 03. | |
| “Einfach mal ausprobieren: Korpus Einfaches Deutsch für daten-geleitetes Fremdsprachenlernen auf Anfängerniveau.” (Give it a try: Corpus Simple German for data-driven foreign language learning at low proficiency levels.) Nachwuchskonferenz der 48. Jahrestagung DaF/DaZ, Freiburg und Kassel (online), June 03-05. | |
| 2020 | “Früh übt sich, wer…: Korpus Einfaches Deutsch für daten-geleitetes Fremdsprachenlernen auf Anfängerniveau.” (Tis early practice…: Corpus Simple German for data-driven foreign language learning at low proficiency levels.) DAAD-Lektorenfortbildung 2020, Shanghai, November 26-28. |
| 2019 | “Red, Falling, Nearest Star: Does Exposure to Science Fiction Literature Predict Knowledge and Processing of Genre-specific Collocations?” 7th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus, May 22-24. |
| “Multilinguals at the Explicit-Implicit Interface.” Workshop of the Arctic MSCA-IF Symposium, Tromsø, May 13. | |
| “Iconicity in word order variation.” 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Lund, May 03-05. | |
| “Red, falling, nearest star: Does exposure to science fiction literature predict knowledge and processing of genre-specific collocations?” 3rd JenLing Workshop, Jena, February 08. | |
| 2018 | “What preposition placement depends on in learner English.” 8th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association: Applied Cognitive Linguistics, Koblenz, September 26-28. |
| 2017 | “Preposition placement in learner English.” 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Tartu, July 10-14. |
| 2016 | “On oblique relative clauses in learner English”. Cognitive Linguistics in Brno (CLiB), Brno, October 19. |
| 2024 | Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development. A Guide for Research, by P. Durrant. Info DaF, 51(2-3), 130-133. https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2024-0021 |
| 2021 | Fremdsprachenerwerb – Fremdsprachendidaktik, by J. Roche. daz-portal. Link |
| 2011 | Das Fremdwort im Deutschen, by P. Eisenberg. Lebende Sprachen, 56(2), 387-389. https://doi.org/10.1515/les.2011.027 |
Germanistik Südwest 2022 (“German Studies in the Southwest 2022”) is a three-day online event aimed at advanced teachers of German, and includes lectures and workshops on the use of corpora in language teaching (together with Sabrina Stock, DAAD Chongqing), online, October 28-30, 2022.
Collaborative revision of the Korpus einfaches Deutsch (KED, “Corpus Simple German”) with Gunther Dietz (University of Augsburg) and supported by the research fund of the University of Augsburg.
Investigation of data-driven learning methods for teaching the use of German particle verbs, in collaboration with Zeng Jing (Kunming University of Science and Technology) and supported by the Chinese German Language Education Fund Program.
Exploring cognitive metaphors as a pedagogical approach to learning the meanings of polysemous words in German as a foreign language, together with Bin Zhang (University of Cologne).
Analysis of the role and image of China in German political speeches using data linguistic and discourse analytical tools, in collaboration with Yiyang Fan (Beijing Foreign Studies University).
In addition, I am involved in various educational activities such as presenting, discussing, serving on juries, leading workshops and lectures, and organizing and conducting events for students, educators, and the broader community with a focus on vocational education, employability of German as a foreign language, and international exchange.
| 2023 | Presentation on Startup and Entrepreneurship in Germany for technical students at the Chengdu Industrial Vocational Technical School, Chengdu, September 26. |
| Talk about the economics of foreign languages and the employability of German language skills at the DSD and DAAD alumni meeting organized by the Consulate General of Germany and the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad, Chengdu, September 21. | |
| Q&A on learning German as a foreign language at a film screening by the Goethe Institute Chongqing and the German Consulate General at the Austrian cultural centre Edelweiß in Chengdu, March 05. | |
| Since 2023 | 2x Jury member at the Youth Debates regional final (“Jugend debattiert” Regionalfinale) hosted by the German Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (“Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen”) at the Chengdu Experimental Foreign Languages School, Chengdu, April 23, 2023 and March 10, 2024. |
| Since October 2022 | 4x DaF-Sofa (“German as a Foreign Language Lounge”) A one-hour online discussion with two invited German and Chinese language scholars discussing core didactic concepts and innovative teaching approaches (with Anna-Maria Linhard, DAAD Dalian). |
| Since January 2022 | 6x Workshops and lectures on the German vocational education and training (VET) system for Chinese VET teachers at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University (06. and 08.11.2023), the Chongqing Wanzhou Vocational Education Center (27.-29.06.2023, together with SinaLingua, Shanghai), the Chongqing College of Architecture and Technology (14.-15.04.2023), the Chengdu Industry & Trade College (25.-26.02.2023), the Chengdu Vocational and Technical College of Industry (29.11.2022), the Huaihai Technician Institute in Suqian (10.-14.01.2022, together with SinaLingua, Shanghai). |
| Since 2021/22 | 5x Lectures on studying abroad in Germany for Chinese students at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu. |
| Since October 2021 | 12x Ein Blick zurück nach vorn (“Looking Back Forward”) A series of online lectures by alumni about their experiences studying abroad and finding jobs after graduation, and an online meeting where Chinese students of German and German students of Chinese exchange ideas, plans, and interests. |
| 01.2013 | Studentische Konferenz Sprachwissenschaft (“Student Conference Linguistics”) A one-day conference at University of Jena for students to present their work (with my Jena co-student Bernhard Luxner). |
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