Projects in Applied Linguistics
Overview of current and completed research projects at the School of Applied Linguistics in Winterthur
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Community Based Survey in DSGS
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Doing good with Virtual Reality?
Information dissemination, access, and comprehension are key components for citizen involvement in democratic processes. The broad dissemination and respective ease of comprehension of voting relevant information in election/voting booklet provided by, for example, the Federal Chancellery is a key prerequisite for ...
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Research Epistemologies in Text-based Digital Humanities
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Health Communication
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Indo-Swiss Translation and Interpreting Professionalization (ISTIP)
India and Switzerland share as an inherent characteristic their widely practiced and officially recognized multilingualism. In the management of multilingualism, English (as a second language) has played a much more prominent role in India than translation and interpreting (T&I), whereas, in Switzerland, English (as ...
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Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT)
English has become the first truly global lingua franca. Even in multilingual Switzerland, English as a lingua franca (ELF) is replacing the four Swiss languages not only in international but also in intra-national communication. What appears at first glance to be a practical solution to communication problems in ...
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Discourse analysis on Antibiotic Resistance (French linguistic usage)
Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in Switzerland and in the light of the health policy priorities "Health 2020", the Confederation has launched a national strategy against antibiotic resistance (StAR strategy) in cooperation with the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Food Safety and Veterinary ...
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Seamless Writing: Expanding Technologies to Support Thesis Writing
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Seamless Writing: Expanding Technologies to Support Thesis Writing
Processing final papers (theses) is a big challenge for universities. Depending on student numbers, educational establishments have to supervise hundreds, if not thousands, of papers each year. Students on short Bachelor's study programs often have insufficient personal resources for the autonomous writing of ...
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Energy Discourses in Switzerland: How and whether multilingual sources (mis)represent monolingual discourses
The phenomenon of various areas of Switzerland exhibiting contrasting patterns of voting on societal issues has been linked to urbanization, to cultural diversity, to geographical proximity to other countries’ discourses, and to linguistic differences. For example, the results of a popular initiative relevant to ...
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Competences for inter-professional cooperation and appropriate teaching formats
The present project aims to develop competencies for inter-professional cooperation and appropriate teaching formats for the Swiss context. In addition, a framework for all health professions for inter-professional training and cooperation is to be developed.
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Discourse analysis on Antibiotic Resistance (German linguistic usage)
Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in Switzerland and in the light of the health policy priorities "Health 2020", the Confederation has launched a national strategy against antibiotic resistance (StAR strategy) in cooperation with the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Food Safety and Veterinary ...
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PhD in Applied Linguistics – Swiss AL Tools
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Innovative Data Visualization and Visual-Numeric Literacy (INDVIL)
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Discourse Analysis, Europe in Dialogue
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Proposal and Implementation of a Swiss Centre for Barrier-Free Communication
Currently, research is required to standardise the approaches used and to ensure the provision of a high-quality service that meets the needs of users in respect of barrier-free communication. The planned national «Barrier-free Communication» competence centre aims to address these research gaps. Thanks to the ...
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Energy discourses in Switzerland
Issues surrounding the production, supply, and use of energy will be of concern to Switzerland in the next few years and the decades to come. In the project “Energy discourses in Switzerland”, researchers in the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics are investigating the communicative prerequisites for the anticipated ...
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Literacy for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship education and competencies for entrepreneurship have received increasing attention at various levels of education in the last decade and have become major fields of interdisciplinary research (Fayolle, 2007 & 2010; Weber et al., 2014 for overviews). In the German speaking countries researchers have ...
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Energy Discourse and Phraseology
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Written Communication in Dialogical Situations
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Quality and Expertise in Discourse
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Informed Consent and Comprehensibility Issues
Informed Consent and Comprehensibility Issues Research involving humans as subjects can be problematic from an ethical standpoint, because people’s welfare and personal sphere should be protected. For this reason, legislation regulates that potential participants must be informed about research procedures and any ...
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Writing Interpreting in (Chinese) TNE Environments
Within education, the 2000’s have been synonymous with the growth of Transnational Education (TNE), which is typically associated with the exporting of English medium instruction (EMI) education and educational models. TNE can be identified as one element of the internationalization of educationTo date, there has ...
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Migration Discourse
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Forest Report 2015
The Forest Report 2015 provides information about the condition of the Swiss forests. It is based on the internationally recognised and standardised indicators of Forest Europe and is an international reference for sustainable forest management. The data basis is derived from comprehensive monitoring of the forest, ...
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Integrated Reading and Writing Support in Vocational Education and Training
For a majority of students in vocational education and training schools, and in particular for those with a migration background, reading and writing are complex cognitive and linguistic challenges that are not always mastered successfully. However, reading and writing skills are not only important requirements for ...
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CEFR for Sign Languages
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JUSTISIGNS - Legal interpreting and sign language
Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 establishes common minimum rules for European Union (EU) countries on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings. As a main partner in the EU’s JUSTISIGNS research project (Legal interpreting and sign ...
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Joint Translation and Interpreting Development Effort inThailand and the ASEAN Region (TIDE)
Demand for translation and interpreting services in the ASEAN countries is rising rapidly. Meanwhile, there are too few translators and interpreters, translation and interpreting quality is insufficient and training opportunities are inadequate. Headed up by the Thai President of the Association of Asian Translation ...
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Communication and Media development for the Swiss Trade Union of the Transport Personnel (SEV)
The trade union SEV is the largest and strongest Swiss trade union in the field of public transport (public transport) and tourist trains. It organizes the staff in the sectors train, bus/local transport, shipping, tourist trains and air transport. The OKOE Center for the Study of Organizational Communication and ...