Research activities School of Applied Linguistics
The latest publications and projects from the School of Applied Linguistics.
Publications
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Whitehouse, Marlies; Rahm, Henrik; Wozniak, Séverine,
2021.
Applied linguistics in the professions : the value of transdisciplinarity in a changing world.
In:
AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021.
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2021.
Financial literacy and ethics : an Applied Linguistics’ perspective.
In:
AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021.
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Weber, Wibke; Gnach, Aleksandra; Klopfenstein Frei, Nadine,
2021.
Understanding the news culture of young people.
In:
AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021.
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Madlener-Charpentier, Karin; Behrens, Heike,
2021.
In:
AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021.
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2021.
Word of the Year in Switzerland.
In:
AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021.
Projects
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The augmented interpreter- a pilot study on the usability of augmented reality in interpreting
Simultaneous interpreting depends on auditory and visual information. This pilot study investigates whether a seamless integration of visual and auditory information, achieved by displaying translations of technical terms on augmented reality glasses (AR), can lower cognitive load in interpreting. ...
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Accessibility of ZHAW Webpages
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Experience the Consequences of Affective Computing - Immersive Science Fiction Prototyping for Responsible Innovation
Since future applications and consequences of Affective Computing are still vague and hard to imagine, we rely on Science Fiction (ScFi) Prototyping as a central method for our communication concept. A SciFi Prototype allows the target group, adolescents and young adults, to experience a fictional future life with ...
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LEAD - LEarning from the pAst: Digitized past pandemics in Switzerland
The project LEAD is designed to meet two specific needs: - data hub providing data on past pandemics in Switzerland (1890, 1918, and 1957), publicly accessible to different target groups; - selected data stories about forgotten past pandemic experiences.
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Needs Analysis for Intercultural Training of Higher Education Employees
The R&D unit Language Management and Globalisation has the lead in a collaboration consortium consisting of BFH, HES-SO, SUPSI & ZHAW in the context of two ongoing Movetia projects 1. High-Impact Measures for the Comprehensive Internationalization of Curricula (No. 2019-1-CH01-OF-0017) aimed at inter-university ...