Short curriculum vitae
I completed a double major B.A. degree in English and American Studies / Theatre and Media Studies and an M.A. in English Studies, with a focus on Applied Linguistics at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. In my Master Thesis I investigated to what extent collocational information was provided by authorised English teaching materials used at secondary schools in Bavaria. Afterwards I spent one academic year at Ulster University in Coleraine where I worked as Language Assistant for German before I took a post at the University of Bonn as Research Assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich. In October 2021 I joined the English and Digital Linguistics team at the TU Chemnitz where I have been working as research assistant to Prof. Dr. Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer ever since.
Research interests
My research interests include phraseology and collocations, first and second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics as well as speech technology, AI, and NLP and machine learning. I am currently working on my PhD project which is focused on testing the effects of different influential factors on the acquisition of L2 collocational competence.
Teaching
| SS 23 | E-learning: learning English with corpora and digital tools (Übung, TU Chemnitz) |
| WS 22/23 | Intercultural and digital English world-wide (Seminar, TU Chemnitz) |
| SS 22 | E-learning: learning English with corpora and digital tools (Übung, TU Chemnitz) |
| WS 21/22 | English as an international academic language (Seminar, TU Chemnitz) |
| Corpus-linguistic approaches to language variation and change (Übung, Uni Bonn) | |
| Language structures and functions (Übung, Uni Bonn) | |
| SS 21 | Issues in lexicology (Seminar, Uni Bonn) |
| WS 20/21 | Corpus linguistics and its applications (Übung, Uni Bonn) |
| Language structures and functions (Übung, Uni Bonn) | |
| SS 20 | Language structures and functions (Übung, Uni Bonn) |
| WS 19/20 | Corpus-linguistic perspectives on language use (Übung and Seminar, Uni Bonn) |
| SS 19 | Corpus-linguistic methods and tools for investigating language change (Übung, Uni Bonn) |
| WS 18/19 | Corpus linguistics and its applications (Übung, Uni Bonn) |
| Language structures and functions (Übung, Uni Bonn) | |
| SS 18 | Corpus linguistic approaches to language variation and change (Übung, Uni Bonn) |
| WS 17/18 | Investigating language use with corpora (Übung, Uni Bonn) |
| Corpus linguistics: focus on quantitative methods (Seminar, Uni Bonn) | |
| SS 17 | Second language acquisition (Übung and Seminar, Uni Bonn) |
Talks and presentations
| Sep 2022 | "Writing and performing deception: An analysis of deception markers in the Netflix series Criminal: UK – a case study". Paper presented with Antonia Friebel and Asya Yurchenko at the Anglistentag in Mainz, September 2022. |
| Jul 2022 | "Adding to the Process Corpus of English in Education (PROCEED) at TU Chemnitz". Paper presented at the 2nd English and Digital Linguistics Conference (EDL 2) at TU Chemnitz, July 2022. |
| Jan 2022 | "Investigating factors influencing L2 collocational competence". Paper presented in the course of the M.A. Research Colloquium at TU Chemnitz, January 2022. (online) |
| Jul 2021 | "Testing ways of enhancing L2 collocational competence". Poster presented at the 13th International Symposium for Bilingualism (ISB13), Warsaw, Poland, July 2021. (online conference) |
| Jun 2021 | "'What we may conclude' - the demise of a hedging construction in 20th-century English". Paper presented with Prof Dr S. Kranich at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Winterthur, Switzerland, June 2021. (online conference) |
| Nov 2020 | “Influential factors in improving L2 collocational competence: Introducing the study design”. Paper presented at the LETS PhD Colloquium, Bonn, November 2020. (online conference) |
| Feb 2020 | “Improving learners‘ collocational competence: Influential factors and how to test them”. Paper presented at the Studis für Studis – Linguistik in Bonn, Bonn, February 2020. |
| Nov 2018 | “Ways of enhancing L2 collocational knowledge: looking for feasible solutions”. Paper presented at the 2nd Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL), Gießen, November 2018. |
| May 2018 | “Collocations in authorised EFL material in Germany”. Paper presented at the 7th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc7), Bonn, Germany, May 2018. |
| Mar 2018 | “Collocations in the foreign language classroom”. Paper presented in the course of a MSc TESOL workshop at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2018. |