German Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
KANDEL: A developmental corpus of learner German
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016-07-08)This article presents the Kansas Developmental Learner corpus (KANDEL), a corpus of L2 German writing samples produced by several cohorts of North American university students over four semesters of instructed language ... -
Data-driven learning for beginners: The case of German verb-preposition collocations
(ReCALL, 2016-01-12)Research on Data-Driven Learning (DDL), or teaching and learning languages with the help of electronic corpora, has shown that it is both effective and efficient. Nevertheless, DDL is still far from common pedagogical ... -
Quoting the Language of Nature in Karl Kraus's Satires
(University of Nebraska Press, 2013)This article focuses on the less "punitive" (Walter Benjamin) dimension of Karl Kraus's notorious practice of quotation: namely, his invocation of nature in its multitude of forms and functions. Rather than advocating a ... -
Review: Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition by Erica Weitzman
(Wiley, 2017)In the closing chapter of Irony’s Antics, Erica Weitzman tries to steer her readers away from three misreadings of irony that have informed most of its modern interpretations: the “utopian/romantic,” the “melancholic/modernist,” ... -
Review: Die verfolgende Unschuld: Zur Geschichte des autoritären Charakters in der Darstellung von Karl Kraus by Irina Djassemy
(University of Nebraska Press, 2012)The late Irina Djassemy’s most recent book picks up where her earlier study, Kulturkritik Bei Karl Kraus und Theodor W. Adorno, left off. Die Verfolgende Unschuld offers, however, a more concentrated analysis of the various ... -
Review: The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
(University of Nebraska Press, 2015)Rarely do the worlds of twentieth- century Austrian modernism and twenty-first-century American fiction so explicitly collide. Yet it is this unlikely marriage that we find in Jonathan Franzen’s translations of some of ... -
Review: Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland 1782–1848 by Philip Lenhard
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‘Wo Ungesetz gesetzlich überwaltet’: Karl Kraus’s Reading of National Socialism
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-19)This article argues that Karl Kraus's last major work, the posthumously published essay Dritte Walpurgisnacht (1952), constitutes a significant political engagement with National Socialism, despite the satirist's explicit ... -
Thinking Through The Clouds: Comedy in Hegel and Strauss
(Wiley, 2017-11-02)This article reconstructs a dialogue between three modern philosophical treatments of the Ancient Greek comic poet Aristophanes's play, The Clouds (first performed in 423 BCE), which has generally been received as an unjust ... -
Technologies for Teaching and Learning L2 Grammar
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Pragmatics in learner corpora
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The development of second language writing complexity in groups and individuals: A longitudinal learner corpus study
(Wiley Online Library, 2012-12-21)This study explores the development of multiple dimensions of linguistic complexity in the writing of beginning learners of German both as a group and as individuals. The data come from an annotated, longitudinal learner ... -
Specific Syntactic Complexity: Developmental Profiling of Individuals Based on an Annotated Learner Corpus
(Wiley Online Library, 2013-01-22)This study tracks the development of syntactic complexity in the writing of two beginning German as a second language learners with English as a first language over four semesters of collegiate language study by using ... -
Discovery learning and teaching with electronic corpora in an advanced German grammar course
(Wiley Online Library, 2013-05-19)This study describes the design and implementation of a usage‐based and corpus‐based advanced German grammar course. Teaching materials for the course included DWDS, or Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache: a large, ... -
Corpus Activity: German Verb-Preposition Collocations
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Corpus-Driven Instruction
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Telecollaboration for professional purposes: Towards developing a formal register in the German classroom
(University of Toronto Press, 2012-11)This study reports on the development of a professional spoken register among learners of German as they participate in four synchronous Web conferences with German-speaking professionals. The researchers investigated the ... -
Applying the methodology of learner corpus analysis to telecollaborative discourse
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Data-driven learning of collocations: Learner performance, proficiency, and perceptions
(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource CenterMichigan State University Center for Language Education and Research, 2017-10-10)This study explores the effects of Data Driven Learning (DDL) of German lexico grammatical constructions (verb preposition collocations) by North American college students with intermediate foreign language ...