Focus in research and teaching: Applied Linguistics

Thematic focus:

• writing research: academic/scientific and professional writing, writing process research
• translation studies: translation theory and didactics, translation process Research
• Integrating Content and Language (CLIL) in Higher Education
• translingual practices in education and teaching
• metaphor theory
• LSP and comprehensibility research
• text linguistics
• terminology science and terminography

Methodological focus:

• process-oriented methods (think-aloud, keystroke logging, screen recording, eye-tracking) used to investigate translation and writing processes

Focus of on-going research projects:

• translation and writing competence development
• the use of plurilingual resources in knowledge acquisition and writing processes
• English as language of academia and language of teaching and learning (LoTL) in higher education