Research activities School of Applied Linguistics
The latest publications and projects from the School of Applied Linguistics.
Publications
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Koch, Carmen; Saner, Mirco; Herrmann-Giovanelli, Iris; Schäfer, Mike; Metag, Julia,
2019.
In:
CHESS - Forschung zu Hochschulen und Wissenschaft in der Schweiz, Bern, 2.-3. September 2019.
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Weber, Wibke; Rall, Hans-Martin,
2019.
Comics journalism and animated documentary : understanding the balance between fact and fiction.
ImageTexT : interdisciplinary comics studies.
11(1).
Available from: http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v11_1/weber_rall/
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Stücheli-Herlach, Peter; Borghoff, Birgitta,
2019.
In:
Netzwerk Gesundheitskommunikation, ZHAW Winterthur, 1.-2. September 2019.
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Saner, Mirco; Koch, Carmen; Herrmann-Giovanelli, Iris,
2019.
Wer warum Wissenschaftsthemen konsumiert.
European journalism observatory.
Available from: https://de.ejo-online.eu/qualitaet-ethik/publika-von-wissenschaftskommunikation
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2019.
Preparing and educating translators for new professional realities.
In:
Zukunftstag der Dolmetcher- und Übersetzervereinigung (DÜV), Zürich, 17. August 2019.
Projects
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Digital Health for Parents with Migration Background
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How to Reach Swiss Digital Natives with News. A Qualitative Study
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Accessible communication between hearing-impaired people and healthcare professionals
The number of people, especially older adults, with disabling hearing loss is steadily increasing. To date, existing knowledge about this health condition and its impact on patients’ everyday life has not been transferred into developing a standardised communication model for inclusive practice in healthcare. Research, in fact, has mainly focused ...
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CEFR CV for Sign Languages
This is a project funded by the Counsil of Europe to make the results of an Swiss National Foundation project available internationally to learners and instructors of sign language by providing translations in English and videos in International Sign. The original project empirically developed and statistically calibrated descriptors of sign ...
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Smart Mobility Experience
In this project, a virtual reality environment will be created to bring concepts around smart mobility closer to a broad audience. These concepts include smart sharing offers (and thus a change of mentality from owning to using), automated driving (which could reduce the number of vehicles in cities to one tenth within the framework of a shared ...