All projects from the School of Applied Linguistics
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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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Professional communication in religious matters
In a transdisciplinary research collaboration, suitable tools are being developed with which the Swiss Pastoral Sociological Institute SPI can increasingly inform and communicate externally and in a target group-oriented manner about its work, projects and research results.
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Written Communication in Dialogical Situations
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Quality and Expertise in Discourse
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Communication tools in addiction prevention
Together with those responsible for the Addiction Prevention Center Zurich Oberland, suitable communication tools are being developed in a transdisciplinary research project that focus on successful public storytelling. The goal is to sensitize the stakeholder groups comprehensively and appropriately to the topic of ...
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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 ...
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Farmer-driven organic resource management to build soil fertility and improve food security
The decline of soil fertility is a major threat to agriculture and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Enforced organic matter production by modern agroforestry systems (planting of nitrogen fixing trees, leguminous shrubs together with food crops), as well as the use of mulch and compost have shown to ...
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COST Action – Strengthening Europeans' capabilities by establishing the European literacy network
Capabilities are not only abilities that reside inside humans, but they also comprise the political, social, and economic environment. Literacy is a capability whose fulcrum is far away from the individual, depending crucially on societal forces that can hinder or promote human development. The efficiency of this ...
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Worlds of Journalism: Switzerland
The principal purpose of the research project is to help journalism researchers, policy makers and practitioners better understand the changes that are taking place in the professional orientations of journalists, the constraints under which they work, as well as the social functions of journalism in a changing ...
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Thesis Writer: A Web-based Learning Environment to Support Dissertation Projects (BA, MA and Doctoral Theses)
Scientific writing is a, and perhaps the key competence one acquires during tertiary education. Not only students who acquire this skill, but also lecturers who teach writing for higher education are confronted with a series of challenges. A new web-based learning environment, based on applied research, is ...
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EPICUR II
The European Journalism Observatory (EJO, de.ejo-online.eu), which currently operates in 13 languages (Albanian, Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Portuguese and Russian) was the basis of the project. This AGORA project extended and strengthened EJO’s network of ...
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Cognitive and Physical Ergonomics of Translation
Like many other knowledge workers, professional translators spend much of their day making decisions at a computer: reading texts in one language, searching for background information in many languages, referring to terminology databanks to ensure consistency and appropriacy of lexical choices, checking parallel ...