PhDs
Current PhDs
Fisher Hannah
Vogler Katharina
Language Aptitude in (ESL learners) multilingual learners
Megens Manon
Crosslinguistic Awareness in Processes of Multilingual Attrition
International PhDs
Mutta Josephiter
[Tansania]
Finished PhDs
2023
Kerstin Walz
[Dissertation]
Dolas Ferhat
Gifted multilingual learners
Brunner Ingrid
Gesamtsprachencurriculum in der Volksschule in Südtirol
2022
Birgit Spechtenhauser Mayr
Many languages – one mind : exploring dimensions of multilingual awareness in dynamic multilingual systems
2020
Pellegrini Claudia
Language maintenance in polyglots
2017
Allgäuer-Hackl Elisabeth
Multilingual training at school: Does it enhance language proficiency and metalinguistic awareness in multilingual learners?
Valentina Török
Awareness and Consciousness in Multilingual Learners’ Strategies: Approaching the M-Factor
2014
Kathrin Oberhofer
Metalinguistic abilities in young language learners
2013
Barbara Hofer
On The Dynamics of Early Multilingualism
A psycholinguistic study of bilingual education in South Tyrol
Third PhD within the DyME team
Congratulations to Ms Valentina Török, a founding and long-term staff member of DyME. The doctoral viva was held at the beginning of July 2017, by Prof. Ulrike Jessner-Schmid and Prof. Judit Navracsics from the Pannonian University of Veszprém, Hungary. Having passed her doctoral exam with summa cum laude, the DYME team celebrates a third PhD in its ranks. Congratulations!
Member of DyME team receives the Richard & Emmy Bahr Prize
In the last week of December it was announced that Valentina Török (in photo on left with Ulrike Jessner-Schmid) would be receiving one of the prizes of the foundation "Richard & Emmy-Bahr Stiftung Schaffhausen 2013". Congratulations!
Barbara Hofer's PhD thesis presented in South Tyrolean newspaper
The South Tyrolean newspaper Alto Adige published an article on Barbara Hofer's thesis and the school where she carried out her study. To read the article click here.
Another DyME member receives doctoral stipend
For the work on her research project and dissertation "Metalinguistic Abilities in Young Language Learners" (MAYLL-Project) Kathrin Oberhofer will receive a doctoral stipend from the University of Innsbruck. Congratulations from the DYME Team!
DyME member receives doctoral stipend
For the work on her Dissertation „Crosslinguistic Awareness in Processes of Multilingual Attrition“, Manon Megens will receive a doctoral stipend from the University of Innsbruck. Congratulations from the DYME Team!
DYME Members receive the
Richard & Emmy Bahr Prize
In the first week of September it was announced that two DYME Members - Jeanette Betsch and Kathrin Oberhofer - would both be receiving one of the prizes of the foundation "Richard & Emmy-Bahr Stiftung Schaffhausen". These stipends are awareded to students who achieve excellence in their studies and who hope to pursue an ambitious project or goal with the help of this support. Students of history or German studies are usually given preference. Congratulations!