Emerging Researchers
A good number of emerging researchers were involved in the work of the research cluster, many of whom developed doctoral dissertations within the framework of, or alongside, the projects. Below you can link to the profiles of these researchers and read the translated titles of their PhD projects.
BiPeer - Facilitating German reading skills among bilingual primary school children through peer learning
meRLe - Promoting reading skills in German via multilingual-sensitive reciprocal teaching in primary education
| Victoria Kramer |
How pupils implement a multilingual-sensitive and cooperative programme of learning (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Valentina Reitenbach |
Interaction in peer learning – a mixed-methods study among primary school pupils (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Dr. Martin Schastak |
Bilingual interaction in peer learning in primary school. A mixed-methods study of Turkish-German bilinguals Status: complete |
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IMKi - Effects of active integration of multilingualism in preschools
| Kristė Baužytė | ||
| Dr. Beyhan Ertanir |
Language and socio-emotional development of multilingual children aged three to six years: Interactions and influencing factors Status: completed |
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| Dr. Samuel Jahreiß |
Migration-related multilingualism in daycare centers. An empirical examination of the practical transfer of professional development for kindergarten teachers Status: completed |
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| Tamara Lautenschläger | ||
| Katja Schneller |
Assessing language abilities of multilingual children in Germany: Determining possible factors in the identification of children at risk in early multilingual development (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Alexandra Witaschek | ||
MEG-SKoRe - Multilingualism as a linguistic and cognitive resource in English language acquisition in primary school
| Dr. Jenny Jakisch |
Multilingualism and the English language classroom. Subject-didactic and practical perspectives Status: completed (non-project related) |
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| Teresa Kieseier |
The early foreign language learning of English in German primary schools by monolingual and bilingual learners: phonological, metalinguistic, lexical, and grammatical aspects (working title) Status: ongoing (cumulative PhD) |
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| Sarah Sturm |
Learning strategies and multilingualism in primary school English lessons (working title) Status: ongoing |
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Multiliteracy - The interrelation between language abilities in the first and second languages and extra-linguistic factors
| Dr. Teresa Barberio |
Writing in two languages: Argumentative and narrative texts of bilingual Italian-German pupils Status: completed |
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| Dr. Seda Yilmaz Woerfel |
Usage of finite and nonfinite structures in Turkish and German Status: completed (non-project related) |
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MEZ - Multilingual development: A longitudinal perspective
| Dr. Hanne Brandt |
Teaching academic language skills in social science classes at lower secondary level Status: completed (non-project related) |
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| Nora Dünkel |
The significance of peer relationships for the educational achievement of monolingual German, German-Russian and German-Turkish adolescents (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Julia Heimler |
Migration and gender – Gender-specific skills differences among adolescent speakers of different heritage languages Status: ongoing |
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| Dr. Birger Schnoor |
Social background and academic language: Human capital investment in German, Turkish and Vietnamese families Status: completed (non-project related) |
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| Dr. Irina Usanova |
Biscriptuality: a study on writing skills among German-Russian bilingual adolescents Status: completed (non-project related) |
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MIKS - Multilingualism as a field of action in intercultural school development: An intervention study in primary schools
| Farina Böttjer |
What is the everyday role of children’s family languages in primary schools? Status: completed |
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| Trang Schwenke-Lam |
Determinants of educational achievement among children and adolescents of German, Turkish and Vietnamese heritage: Is (private) tutoring a door opener? (working title) Status: ongoing (non-project related) |
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| Anouk Ticheloven |
The writing child in the multilingual primary school: A focus on social-emotional development (working title) Status: ongoing (non-project related) |
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| Dr. des. Imke Lange | ||
MuM-Multi - Fostering language in multilingual mathematics classrooms - efficacy and effects of mono- and bilingual interventions
| Meryem Çelikkol | ||
| Dr. Taha Kuzu |
Multilingual conceptual development: A study of learning processes with respect to the part-whole concept among German-Turkish learners Status: completed |
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| Dr. Arne Krause |
Supporting media in the transfer of knowledge in higher educational communication. An analysis of the purposes of chalk boards, OHP, PPT and interactive whiteboards Status: completed |
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| Angela Uribe |
Language educational multilingual mathematics lessons – A developmental research project in linguistically heterogeneous classrooms Status: ongoing |
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| Jonas Wagner |
‘Theory of mind’, basic discursive and pragmatic skills: Category discussion and empirical analyses in preschool age (working title) Status: ongoing (non-project related) |
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SimO - Writing skills in multilingual secondary schools. The effect of profiled revision tasks on written production of 6th grade students in the L1s German and Turkish and the L2 German
| Dr. Lars Bender |
Promoting writing through language support – An intervention study on the effectiveness of linguistically profiled writing arrangements in multilingual lower secondary education Status: completed |
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| Dr. Anne Kathrin Wenk |
Bilingual writing support – An intervention study on the effectiveness of different linguistically profiled writing arrangements in German classes on text quality in the family language Turkish of bilingual pupils in lower secondary education Status: completed |
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Language Awareness and Multilingualism - Developing a resource-oriented didactics for heritage and foreign language education with the example of Russian and Polish heritage speakers
| Vladimir Arifulin | ||
| Dr. Ewa Krauss |
Schematic views in translation: The example of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum Status: completed (non-project related) |
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| Katharina Mechthild Rutzen |
‘Doing learning’ in Russian classes with heritage speakers. Developing collaborative lessons between theory and practice (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Dominika Steinbach | ||
Language Skills and Metalinguistic Awareness - Metalinguistic interactions in multilingual learning settings as a predictor of metalinguistic awareness and its relevance top the learning of German, foreign and heritage languages
| Dr. Muhammed Akbulut | ||
| Melina Andronie |
Cognition and academic well-being among primary school pupils: A cumulative doctoral project (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Dr. Lena Bien-Miller |
Focusing on grammar in multilingual German lessons. An empirical study of teachers’ cognition Status: completed |
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| Sebastian Krzyzek |
Metalinguistic lexical interactions: An analysis of mono- and multilingual primary school pupils' patterns of language use in oral language comparisons (working title) Status: ongoing |
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SchriFT - Writings skills in lower secondary school and the involvement of Turkish - An empirical study on the effects of promoting writing skills in subject lessons and in the heritage language Turkish
| Sinan Akın | ||
| Anıl Çıklaşahin | ||
| Claudia Forkarth |
Linguistic actions in political factual and value judgments - Theoretical considerations from an interdisciplinary perspective (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Charlotte Husemann |
Describe, explain, justify – the operationalisation of historical factual judgments (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Michaela Schniederjan |
Language in the technology classroom – an empirical study in compreghensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia (working title) Status: ongoing |
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| Christian Steck | ||
| Mareike-Cathrine Wickner |
Promoting language in history lessons (working title) Status: ongoing |
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