Language Learning and Language Use – Applied Linguistics Approaches

This publication is based on presentations given at the 3rd Junior Research Meeting of Applied Linguistics in Essen. The articles were reviewed and selected by the editors and a multinational review team. This collection of papers represents the field of applied linguistics in all its breadth, both in terms of the fields, topics, and issues discussed, and the research methodology used aspects of language in use. It is an indispensable resource for anyone who would like to gain insight into applied linguistics research by junior researchers in Europe.
CONTENTS:

Saskia Kersten, Christian Ludwig, Dorothee Meer, Bernd Rüschoff: Language Learning and Language Use – Applied Linguistics Approaches;
Verena Wecker:

Theoretische Überlegungen zu Pluralbildungen von Grundschulkindern mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache;
Jana Gamper:

„Der Junge zeigt den Polizist die Zunge“ – Kasusmarkierungen in Texten türkisch- und russischsprachiger DaZ-Lerner;
Ad Backus, Dorina Veldhuis:

More than frequency: Multiword combinations in pre-literate children’s language segmentation;
Margit Hempel:

Bridging the Gap: Hinführung vom imitativ-reproduktiven Sprechen zu konstruierendem und interaktivem Sprechen beim Übergang von der Primarstufe in die Sekundarstufe;
Katharina König:

Indirekte Formulierung in narrativen Interviews;
Juliane Mroz:

Verwendung von Anglizismen und Kurzwörtern aus Internetfachsprache und Internetslang;
Anna Tkachenko:

„ich bin ein stolzer mixer zwischen Russe und Deutscher“: Versprachlichungsstrategien russischer Migranten im Chat;
Emilie Magnat:

A multi-sensory approach to the learning of English L2;
Jelena Danilović, Ivana Zorica, Branimir Jeremić:

Serbian, English and German in Interaction: A Study of Cognates and German L3 Learners in Serbia;
Dominik Rumlich:

The effects of CLIL: Students’ linguistic accuracy in relation to internal and external learner variables;
Déogratias Nizonkiza:

Relationship between lexical competence, collocational competence, and second language proficiency: The case of Belgian English majors;
Verena Möller:

Does Immersion Make a Difference? Compiling Annotated Corpora to Investigate the Use of the English Passive;
Annelien De Geest:

Freshman year: a discrepancy between social and academic well-being;
Andrea Hunziker Heeb:

The problem-solving processes of experienced and non-experienced translators;
Gregor Geiermann, Friederike Sell, Katharina Weber:

“How to greet a professor?”: Identifying emerging email etiquette in professor-student communication;
Almut Schön:

Ärzte und Patienten im Gespräch: L2-L1-Kommunikation im beruflichen Diskurs