Teaching

Around 40 courses (seminars, lectures, lab courses and research colloquia) since 2008 in BA and MA programmes in German as a Foreign Language and Linguistics at Leipzig University and Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

Lexicology, Phraseology and Vocabulary

  • Selected Problems in Lexicology and Phraseology (winter 2025/26, two groups)
  • The Lexicon and Vocabulary Acquisition in German as a Foreign/Second Language (winter 2018/19, winter 2019/20)

German Grammar and Morphology

  • Theories of Grammar and Grammaticography (lecture, winter 2019/20)
  • Introduction to the Morphology of Present-Day German (2 seminars, winter 2019/20)
  • Language Comprehension II: Morphology and Syntax (winter 2014/15)
  • Morphological Processing (winter 2012/13)
  • Theoretical and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Inflectional Morphology (summer 2008)
  • Introduction to Phonology (lecture, winter 2009/10)
  • Foundations of Linguistics (lecture, winter 2008/09)

Empirical Methods, Data Analysis and Statistics

  • Quantitative Methods / Empirical Foundations (lecture, summer 2014, summer 2017)
  • Statistics with R (summer 2013, winter 2015/16)
  • Psycholinguistic Methods (winter 2013/14, winter 2014/15)
  • Methodological Foundations of Data Collection and Analysis (summer 2016)
  • Psycholinguistic Lab Course (summer 2014, summer 2015, summer 2017)
  • Research Colloquia (Leipzig University; Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, winter 2016/17, winter 2017/18, winter 2021/22)

Language Acquisition and Language Processing

  • Second Language Processing (summer 2013)
  • Introduction to Psycholinguistics (lecture, winter 2016/17)
  • Cognitive Foundations of Language Processing (lecture, winter 2016/17)
  • Sentence Comprehension (winter 2012/13)
  • Sentence Production (winter 2013/14, winter 2015/16)
  • Neuropsychology of Language / Language Disorders (summer 2014, summer 2016)
  • The Mental Representation of Stress (summer 2014)

Courses were taught in German unless the title is English. “Winter” and “summer” refer to the German academic terms.

Project-Based Teaching and Collaboration with Practice

The research colloquia at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences (winter 2016/17, 2017/18, 2021/22) were designed as research-based learning: students carried out their own empirical projects in groups, from the research question to the final presentation. In winter 2017/18 the colloquium was run in cooperation with the publisher Ernst Klett Verlag. It used eye-tracking to study design questions in primary-school textbooks: the distribution of picture and text information, and the effect of syllable-based reading support on reading speed and comprehension.

Supervision

  • Supervised more than 40 BA and more than 30 MA theses (Leipzig University, 2012–2017)
  • Acting Professor (W3) of German as a Foreign Language (10/2019 – 12/2019), including examination and committee duties
  • Guidance and coordination of student research assistants in DFG projects since 2006

Teaching German as a Second Language

  • German course for refugees, Flüchtlingsrat Leipzig e. V. (2004–2005): independent planning and teaching of a language course for a group that was highly heterogeneous in languages and learning backgrounds