Educational Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Gießen
Educational Linguistics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) comprises research and teaching activities which focus on the reciprocal relationship between linguistic concepts and models and the analysis of the processes involved in language acquisition and language pedagogy. The Departments of English, German, Romance, Slavic and Turkish studies as well as linguists and language acquisition researchers of all philologies have been cooperating successfully in the Research Network Educational Linguistics for several years.Three research areas are of particular interest to the Research Network:
- aspects of language policy and language pedagogy
which are relevant to concepts of multilingualism and the construction
of identity through language
- the use of digital media, computerized corpora
and other computational-linguistic technologies for the analysis
of language as well as for the teaching and learning of languages
- the description and analysis of language acquisition
in general and of language use in the classroom (with a special
focus on the distinction between medial orality and literacy)