Research activities School of Applied Linguistics
The latest publications and projects from the School of Applied Linguistics.
Publications
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Konstantinidou, Liana; Stadler, Ursula,
2021.
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In:
Cunningham, Clare; Hall, Christopher J., eds.,
Vulnerabilities, Challenges and Risks in Applied Linguistics.
Bristol:
Multilingual Matters.
pp. 149-161.
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2021.
In:
7th IATIS Conference : Book of Abstracts.
7th IATIS International Conference: The Cultural Ecology of Translation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, 14-17 September 2021.
International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies.
pp. 317.
Available from: https://www.iatis.org/images/ABSTRACTBOOK-PAG.pdf
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Hvelplund, Kristian T.; Lehr, Caroline,
2021.
The impact of emotion on comprehension and reformulation during translation [paper].
In:
7th International Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) , Barcelona, Spain, 14-17 September 2021.
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Rummler, Klaus; Schneider Stingelin, Colette; Grabensteiner, Caroline,
2021.
In:
ECER 2021, Geneva (online), 6-10 September 2021.
Available from: https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/26/contribution/50624/
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Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,
2021.
Machine translation in the language classroom : Swiss data.
In:
The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, online, Winterthur, 2-3 September 2021.
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics, IUED Institute of Translation and Interpreting.
Projects
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Creative Agility – How art-based strategies transform digital and analog communication in organizations
As part of the EU-funded Erasmus+ project "Creative Agility", the ZHAW, together with adult education partners from Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria, is exploring how art-based strategies transform digital and analog communication in organizations. The aim of the project is to develop a curricular training concept ...
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To be liked or not to be liked – what makes a photo interesting?
Photos are a wonderful medium in corporate and science communications to showcase what faculty, staff, and students do at the ZHAW. But which photos are interesting and which are not? The aim of our project is to better understand the aesthetic and semantic characteristics of the photos in relation to the academic ...
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NPO Journey to volunteers
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Machine translation for academic texts
The project consists in developing a prototype for a ZHAW neural machine translation system trained on academic texts. Freely accessible systems such as DeepL and Google Translate are not specifically trained on scientific texts and therefore often present issues regarding terminology, text cohesion, pragmatics and ...
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Digital Literacy Skills in University Context
Writing in most contexts today is done with digital, computer-assisted support. Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) such as intelligent tutoring (IT), automated writing evaluation (AWE) and machine translation (MT) present new opportunities, perspectives, and risks for tertiary education. The ...