DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Listeners make predictions about upcoming sentence material during language processing. Monolingual English and monolingual German listeners can use contrastive pitch accents to predict upcoming referents (e.g. Ito & Speer, 2008; Weber, Braun, & Crocker, 2006). For example, when hearing Click on the blue book. Click on the RED… (where CAPS indicate a contrastive pitch accent), […]

Samstag, 26.Mai 2018, 9:00  – 16:00 Die seit 2008 jährlich stattfindende Nachwuchstagung der ÖGSD hat zum Ziel, wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs im Forschungsfeld der Sprachdidaktik ein Präsentationsforum zu bieten und Forschende verschiedener Philologien, Fachdidaktiken und der Lehrer_innenbildung, die den Gegenstand „Sprache“ unter didaktisch-methodischer Schwerpunktsetzung untersuchen, miteinander zu vernetzen. Es sind sowohl konzeptuelle als auch empirische Beiträge zu […]

  In the more than 300 years of learning and teaching English in German-speaking countries we find evidence of innovative methods, customized teaching materials, a wide range of practices as well as examples of theoretical and empirical research. Some developments have been forgotten, others exert an influence on the field of ELT to this day. […]

In context of the early 1960s Civil Rights Movement, the Black Nationalist aspirations of Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) make the group seem ahead of its time. RAM developed a political program for African American autonomy in the Northern cities while much of the country was focused on the South and the struggle for integration. RAM’s […]