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The Auschwitz Report
(Pitt Open Library Publishing, 2023-09-06)The escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler from Auschwitz on April 7, 1944, was extraordinary in its daring, courageous execution, and impact. The challenging task of the two escapees was to inform the world of previously ... -
Technology and Vocabulary
(Routledge, 2022)Vocabulary knowledge is one of the most important components of L2 proficiency (Schmitt, 2010). At the same time, the acquisition of L2 vocabulary is particularly challenging because it is item-based as opposed to rule-based ... -
Complexity
(Routledge, 2021-01)This chapter focuses on the construct of second language complexity: the range of linguistic (e.g., lexical, syntactic, morphological) forms and the degree of elaboration of these forms in learner language. The chapter ... -
The Early Date of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
(Academia.edu, 2022-01)Christopher Marlowe was responsible for the first significant literary transformation of the German Faust Book of 1587. Thus, a propagandistic pamphlet about a demonic magician became genuine dramatic literature. The focus ... -
“Zum ersten Mal sah ich ein Bild:” Goethe’s Cognitive Viewing Subject as Scientist and Artist
(University of Toronto Press, 2019)This article investigates the significance of Goethean natural science for the development of abstract modes of painting that would emerge with Wassily Kandinsky in the early twentieth century. While early abstractionists ... -
Rumpelstiltskin’s (Queer) Secret: Nonbinary Bodies Buried between the Lines of the Brothers Grimm
(Wayne State University Press, 2021-04-01)The strangeness of "Rumpelstiltskin" continues to fascinate audiences and perplex folklorists long after reaching the Grimms from women storytellers in the spinning chamber. Despite its discovery in the tale, Rumpelstiltskin's ... -
Discovery Learning: Teaching Languages with Corpora
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Data-driven learning for languages other than English: The cases of French, German, Italian, and Spanish
(EuroCALL, 2020-12-13)This paper summarises the contributions to EuroCALL’s CorpusCALL SIG Symposium for the year 2020. In line with this year’s EuroCALL conference theme, ‘CALL for widening participation’, the Symposium centred around the theme ... -
Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz, Budapest, 1944
(2020-10-01)Despite Hitler’s and Eichmann’s secret machinery for the deportation of Jews from the Hungarian provinces, dramatic events finally interrupted the progress of their unprecedented crimes. Although many thousands had already ... -
Corpora as open educational resources for language teaching
(Wiley, 2020-06-09)Corpora, large electronic collections of texts, have been used in language teaching for several decades. Also known as Data‐Driven Learning (DDL), this method has been gaining popularity because empirical research has ... -
Corpus-Informed Pedagogy in a Language Course: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
(IGI Global, 2020)Data-Driven Learning (DDL), or a corpus-based method of language teaching and learning, has been developing rapidly since the turn of the century and has been shown to be effective and efficient. Nevertheless, DDL is still ... -
Der Mythos des faustischen Teufelspakts: Geschichte, Legende, Literatur
(DeGruyter, 2019-08)The tale of Faust is inspired by a deal with the devil, a legacy of witch persecution. The anonymous author of the Faust Book of 1587 used such a deal as a plot device. Despite Christopher Marlowe’s masterpiece, based on ... -
Integrating Research Skills into the German Studies Curriculum
(2019-05-10)The faculty expected students in the capstone course to complete requirements for a content-rich course and also produce a research paper in German, but discovered that most students did not have the research skills to ... -
Language Corpora for L2 Vocabulary Learning: Data-Driven Learning Across the Curriculum
(Cenage Learning, 2018)Empirical Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) research on L2 vocabulary has shown that Data-Driven Learning (DDL), or teaching and learning languages with the help of corpora (large, structured electronic collections ... -
Apocalypse Now: On Heinrich von Kleist, Caspar David Friedrich, and the Emergence of Abstract Art
(Wiley Online Library, 2013)While discussions of abstract art usually imply that the movement began in the twentieth century, its conceptualization pre‐dates its identification as a distinct tendency in the visual arts. One early text that articulates ... -
It's Not Easy Being Green: The Failure of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)This article revisits the art and artists of Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich, a novel concluding with a conservative stance against artistic innovation, in order to explore how pre–twentieth-century literary fiction ... -
Review of Organismus und Gesellschaft: Der Körper in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Realismus (1830 - 1930)
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Modelling the Dynamics of Intergenerational Assimilation to a Dominant Contact Language (American English) in German Linguistic Enclaves on the Great Plains
(Winter Verlag, 2016-10)Within the course of one or two future generations, the numerous linguistic varieties of German transplanted to the New World from Europe over the course of several centuries will be passing from existence. The only exception ... -
Syntactic modification at early stages of L2 German writing development: A longitudinal learner corpus study
(Elsevier, 2015)This study explores ab initio development of syntactic complexity in a longitudinal corpus of learner German writing from a Dynamic Usage-Based perspective. It contributes to the research on L2 writing complexity by focusing ... -
New developments in the study of L2 writing complexity: An editorial
(Elsevier, 2015)A growing number of publications are highlighting the promising interfaces between the traditionally separate research areas of Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Writing (see Manchón & Tardy, 2012). Researchers ...