Doctoral Theses
In Progress
Allgäuer, Elisabeth-Maria
Multilingual training at school: Does it enhance language proficiency and metalinguistic awareness in multilingual learners?
Gomig, Marlene
University students' attitudes towards multilingualism in Austria and Australia - A comparison
Hofer, Barbara
Early trilingualism in South Tyrol. A psycholinguistic perspective.
Megens, Manon
"Crosslinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Attrition"
Oberhofer, Kathrin
The development of cognitive-metalinguistic abilities in children with early foreign language learning.
Pittracher-Terek, Valentina
Testing the M-Factor
Tovmasov, Anna (second advisor)
"Sprachbiographien von MigrantInnen: Identität und Integration"
Finalized
Forrat Viva, Marta (2007)
“Cross-cultural marriages : English - Spanish bilinguals in Australia”
Diploma Theses
In Progress
Colvin, Stephan Lukas
Code-switching in the setting of a bilingual family
Desnica, Janina
Emotions & multilingualism
Ieronimo, Nicole
Cross-linguistic influence and interaction in third language acquisition
Maurer, Sarah
Collocations & idioms in second language acquisition
Mohr, Jasmin Nicole
Neurolinguistic Aspects of Multilingualism
Pircher, Simone
Attitudes towards English amongst bi- and multilingual students in South Tyrol
Praxmarer, Ingrid Elisabeth
English as a third language in migrant children
Shanley, Angela
Early English in bilingual programs
Sigl, Christine
Language maintenance in a multilingual school context
Thurner, Theresa Language attrition and language situation of German-speaking immigrants in Australia with focus on how Australian school systems take childrens’ migrational backgrounds into consideration
Finalized
Amann, Caroline (2011)
Bilingual education - a token for concultural pragmatics?
Burgstaller, Julia (2011)
How can comics and 'light' literature be used for learning a (foreign) language - Can comics be used for language learning?
Betsch, Jeanette (2011)
Language attrition after four months and the role of metalinguistic awareness - Consequences for teaching
Gröbner, Claudia (2011)
Wild children - a proof of the critical period hypothesis?
Megens, Manon Antonius Elisabeth (2011)
Language attrition after four months? Emergence of lexical attrition in the oral production of Austrian multilingual subjects
Plankl, Petra (2011)
Students’ attitudes towards multilingualism with English at the art school 'Cademia'
Schipflinger, Elisabeth (2011)
English as a third language: State-of-the-art
Schwab, Andreas (2011)
Motivation in second language acquisition: A study at Linfield College (US) with teaching implications
Ager, Sylvia Maria (2010)
English as a bridge language for the acquisition of Italian, Spanish and French - Implications for language teaching
Mair, Viktoria (2010)
The Acquisition of pragmatic competence in English language learners
Schostal, Marie-Therese (2010)
Self-repair and repair in English as a lingua franca
Sprenger, Barbara (2010)
Crucial Factors in successful adult language learning
Ackerer, Julia (2009)
Italian language and culture in American English: Some evidence from a corpus - based analysis with suggestions for instruction
Fellacher, Ulrike (2009)
English and Spanish politeness strategies: A contrastive study of requests expressed in Mike Leigh's "Happy Go Lucky" and Pedro Almodóvar's "Volver" including teaching perspectives
Gomig, Marlene (2009)
Vocabulary learning strategies in English textbooks
Menghin, Karin (2009)
Language disorders in bilingual children
Peska Stephanie Renate (2009)
Attitudes towards English amongst bi- and multilingual adolescents in Malta
Rauter, Lisa (2009)
Acquisition of grammar in children - A comparative study of passive voice construction in a monolingual and a bilingual kindergarten
Sorko, Julia Karin Anna (2009)
Language attrition and multilingualism – New perspectives from Dynamic Systems Theory
Tavernini, Marlene (2009)
From communicative competence to intercultural communicative competence
Erschbaumer, Sarah (2008)
Code-switching: A most widely accepted communicative strategy?
Frei, Helga (2008)
English as a third language in South Tyrol - The role of cognates in the English language classroom
Hojas, Karoline (2008)
Anglicisms in sports companies - From "Kreuzlandrad" to "Hitschhaik"
Ladinig, Kathrin (2008)
Mind the Gap - The lack of conceptual fluency in English language learning
Oberhofer, Kathrin (2008)
Metalinguistic ability and early foreign language learning
Unterweger, Barbara (2008)
Students' attitudes towards multilingualism with English at a European school
Walcher, Elisabeth (2008)
Word order transfer in third language acquisition German-Italian bilingual students' acquisition of English word order in a German educational context
Gächter, Kathrin (2007)
Preferred images in English, French and German proverbs
Haslinger, Heidemarie (2007)
Cross-cultural pragmatics at school
Pellegrini, Silvia (2007)
Teaching English grammar rules - An inquiry into the didactics of future reference in English