Conferences & workshops

“The role of linguistic distance: Can lexical and morphosyntactic distance measures explain L2/L3 English proficiency?”. 13th IAM L3 Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands, 29.-31. August 2024 (with N. Jaekel).

“EAL teachers’ practices and discourses about pedagogical translanguaging.” 13th IAM L3 Conference, Groningen, The Netherlands, 29.-31. August 2024 (with E. N. Torgersen, A. Krulatz).

“Employees’ perception and experiences with language policies in a multilingual setting. Higher education in Norway as an example.” ECER European Conference on Educational Research, Nicosia, Cyprus, 27.-30. August 2024 (with K. R. Mahan, S. Hammer, J. Flikke, G. De Angelis, N. Busby).

“Examining multiliteracy practices in diverse EAL settings: From research to practice.” EuroSLA 33 Conference of the European Second Language Association, Montpellier, France, 3 – 6 July 2024 (with A. Krulatz, E. N. Torgersen).

“Colloquial Singapore English. Pragmatic particles - A corpus-based study on oral history interviews.” Invited guest lecture by Dr. Natalia Mitrofanova in MA seminar Varieties of English at The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway [online]. 

“Holdninger og erfaringer med språkpolitikken ved NTNU” Språkutvalget NTNU Styremøte, Trondheim, Norway (with K. R. Mahan, S. Hammer, G. L. De Angelis, N. L. Busby, J. K. Flikke).

“A language needs analysis at NTNU.” Research meeting on languages in higher education, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 7. December 2023 (w. K. R. Mahan, S. Hammer, G. L. De Angelis, N. L. Busby, J. K. Flikke)

“Global multilingualism: Dominant language constellations.” Invited talk in the Research Unit ‘Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: Global English in its local multilingual ecologies’ at University of Hamburg & TU Dortmund University [online].

“Metalinguistic awareness and multilingualism: A case study of young learners.” Nordic Language Teaching and Learning Conference, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 21.-23. September 2023 (with D. Walla).

“Heritage bilingualism – Crosslinguistic influence, advantages, and the effects of linguistic distance.” Invited ACLC Lecture at Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

“Global multilingualism: Dominant language constellations.” Invited talk in the Research Group Language Learning, Literacy, and Multilingualism (LLLM) at Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

“The role of linguistic distance and language use on L2/L3 English proficiency.” EuroSLA 32 Conference of the European Second Language Association, Birmingham, UK, 30. August - 2. September 2023 (with N. Jaekel, M. Ritter).

“Global multilingualism: Dominant language constellations.” Workshop, Department of English, University of Hamburg.

“Primary school teachers’ experiences with pedagogical translanguaging in the EAL classroom.” 10th International Conference of the Association EDiLiC, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28.-30. June 2023 (with E. Torgersen, A. Krulatz).

“Unexpected influence of the heritage language in foreign language learning: Testing the bilingual optimization model in a multilingual context”. ISB14 – International Symposium on Bilingualism, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26.-30. June 2023 [online] (together with S. Aalberse)

“Symposium: Language outcomes in multilingual heritage speakers: The role of the contact scenario.” ISB14 – International Symposium on Bilingualism, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26.-30. June 2023 [online] (together with S. Aalberse; contributions by S. Aalberse, E. Lorenz, A. Lloyd-Smith, S. Zhu, F. R. Moro)

“The status of English in the United Arab Emirates: University students’ language use and usage contexts.” Conference of the International Association of World Englishes, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 15.-17. June 2023.

“Multilingual repertoires and longitudinal development: English in the German secondary school context.” (Poster). Morella Young Researchers Symposium MYRSM2023, Morella, Spain, 12.-13. June 2023 (with T. E. Toprak-Yildiz, P. Siemund).

“Cross-linguistic influence in L2 and L3 English acquisition: Norwegian and Norwegian-heritage language children.” (Poster). Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: Cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies (HL@Cross 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, 29.-30. May 2023 (with N. Kolb, H. Jensberg).

“Assessing multiliteracy practices in diverse EAL classrooms.” International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts, Mondragon University, Bilbao, Spain, 18.-19. May 2023 (with A. Krulatz, E. Torgersen).

“‘Like English is used everywhere’ – The use of discourse marker like in UAE English.” ICAME43, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 28.-30. July 2022 [online].

“Does bilingualism predict higher proficiency in L3 English? Comparing monolingual and bilingual learners of English.” International conference on foreign language learning: variety, diversity, and interdisciplinarity. Lisbon, Portugal, 7.-8. June 2021 [online] (with S. Rahbari & P. Siemund).

“‘We use English but not like all the time like.’ – Discourse marker ‘like’ in UAE English.” ISLE 6 Conference, Joensuu, Finland, June 2021.

“The ages of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English: A corpus study based on oral history interviews.” ISLE 6 Conference, Joensuu, Finland, 2.-5. June 2021 [online] (with L. Li & P. Siemund).

“Comparison of L2 and L3 learners of English in Germany: Why is their performance so similar?” 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań – Rethinking language and identity in the multilingual world. Poznań, Poland (online), 23.-25. April 2021.

“Professional development for teachers of multilingual learners: Teacher beliefs, knowledge, and pedagogical practice.” Multilingualism on my mind 2021 – Exploring Multilingualism in Education, Bergen, Norway, 18.-19. March 2021 [online] (with A. Krulatz, M.A. Christison, & Y. Sevinc).

“The ages of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English: A corpus study based on oral history interviews.” NWAV Asia-Pacific 6 Conference, Singapore, 17.-20. February 2021 [online] (with L. Li & P. Siemund).

“The influence of social predictors on lexical transfer and lexical diversity: a longitudinal study of English learner data.” Workshop des Forschungsschwerpunkts Sprachliche Bildung und Mehrsprachigkeit “Educational Linguistics”, Hamburg, Germany, 23.-24. January 2020 (with S. Rahbari & P. Siemund).

“The acquisition of English in the multilingual classroom. Insights from Germany and Norway.” Invited talk at Colloquium “Critical Issues in Linguistics”, English Department, University of Münster.

“Fagfornyelsen og flerspråklighet” DEKOM Seminar, Steinkjer, Norway (with E. Torgersen).

“Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: adverb and adverbial placement in English.” (Poster). L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, Konstanz, Germany, 7.-8. June 2019 (with K. Feindt, L. Li, S. Rahbari, & P. Siemund).

“Oral and written production task – Analysis of L2 and L3 learners of English.” CuTLi 2019, Hamburg, Germany, 28.-29. March 2019.

“Pronominal object placement in English – A case study of monolingual and bilingual learners.” 11^th IAM L3 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 13.-15. September 2018 (with R. Bonnie, K. Feindt, S. Rahbari, & P. Siemund).

“Acquisition and Use of Tense and Aspect in a Foreign Language. A Study on Monolingual and Bilingual Learners of English.” International Summer School on Learner Corpus Research, Bremen, Germany, 27.-31. August 2018.

“Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition.” Invited talk at Romanistik Kolloquium, University of Hamburg.

“Pronominal object placement in English – A case study of monolingual and bilingual learners.” Current Trends in Linguistics (CuTLi) 2018, Hamburg, Germany, 23.-24. March 2018 (with R. Bonnie, K. Feindt, S. Rahbari, & P. Siemund).

“Is there a multilingual advantage in the use of tense and aspect for heritage speakers of L3 English?” Research School Language Contact within Systems and Speakers, Potsdam, Germany, 21.-23. February 2018.

“Comparing monolingual and bilingual students – A research study on the use of tense and aspect in English.” Invited talk at Hanoi National University of Education. Hanoi, Vietnam.

“The use of tense and aspect in English texts written by monolingual and bilingual learners of English as a foreign language.” 4^th LCR Conference, Bolzano, Italy, 5.-7. October 2017.

“Pronominal Object Placement.” (Poster). Sprachliche Bildung und Mehrsprachigkeit – Kick-off Meeting 2. Förderphase. Hamburg, Germany, 18.-19. September 2017.

“Monolingual and bilingual learners of English as a foreign language. A case study of German and Russian native speakers.” 50th SLE Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 10.-13. September 2017.

“MEZ-Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf.” Tagung des Forschungsschwer-punkts Sprachliche Bildung und Mehrsprachigkeit. Hamburg, Germany, 10.-11. February 2017 (with H. Brandt, T. Dittmers, N. Dünkel, I. Gogolin, C. Gabriel, Thorsten Klinger, M. Knigge, M. Krause, S. Rahbari, P. Siemund, S. Topal, M. Trebbels, & I. Usanova).

“One day a father and his son going fishing on the Lake.” – Traceable differences in the use of the progressive aspect in English of learners with differing heritage languages.” CuTLi 2017, Hamburg, Germany, 21.-22. January 2017.

“Differences in the acquisition and production of English as a foreign language. Study based on multilingual school children growing up in Germany and monolingual German school children.” (Poster). 10^th IAM L3 Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1.-3. Sept. 2016.

“The quotative use of the impersonal third person plural pronoun in English versus the agentless passive of say – a diachronic genre comparison.” Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, GB, 8.-9. April 2016.

“Quotative uses of 3pl-IMPs in Modern English. A diachronic corpus study.” Oberseminar, Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg.