30 research outputs found
There Are No Jokes In Paradise – Humour as a politics of representation in recent texts and films from the British migratory contact zone
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From bilingual to biliterate. Narrative discourse abilities in Greek-German and Greek-English bilinguals from Germany and the U.S.
No full textItem does not contain fulltextUniversität zu Köln, 7 juli 2017Promotores : Bongartz, Ch. M., Torregrossa, J
Effects of dominance and linguistic distance in the bilingual proficiency profiles of Dutch-German and Greek-German school-age bilinguals
No full textBilingual development is characterized by systematic variability, so called profile
effects. This paper investigates dominance in exposure and linguistic distance as
potential sources of bilingual profile effects by comparing the lexical and narrative
profiles of Greek-German bilinguals to those of Dutch-German bilinguals.
Both bilingual groups, aged 10–11 years, were recruited from bilingual schoolcontexts
in Germany. The Greek-German bilinguals (N=15) constitute a classic heritage
language population with a fairly distantly related language combination, the Dutch-
German bilinguals (N=15) constitute an under-researched group of bilingual speakers
with a very closely related language combination. Participants were asked about
their language exposure and underwent a productive vocabulary task and a narrative
production task in both languages.
Findings indicate that dominance in exposure did not directly translate into dominance
in lexical proficiency, which might be related to a cognate facilitation effect in the lexical
tasks for the Dutch-German bilinguals. The narrative analysis indicates that, on grouplevel,
dominance in exposure translated into dominance in narrative performance. A
correlational analysis showed that dominance affected narrative measures differently
and correlated differently with narrative measures depending on the group and, thus,
language combination. However, it could not be affirmed that the linguistic proximity
of Dutch and German balanced out dominance effects in general, since dominance in
that group of bilinguals was too stark.
It is concluded from this that dominance in exposure and linguistic distance interact in
bilingual development, but that this relationship is also dependent on the magnitude
of dominance and the type of task and linguistic domain under investigation
Kontrastive Alphabetisierung in der Zweitsprache als kompetenzorientierte Methode ganzheitlicher Literalitätsförderung – Erfahrungen aus einem sozialraum-orientierten Alphabetisierungsprojekt
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Kindlicher Spracherwerb im Deutschen [German Language Acquisition in Children] by Christina Kauschke
No full textItem does not contain fulltextBespreking van: Ch. Kauschke,Kindlicher Spracherwerb im Deutschen Berlin:de Gruyter ,2012 978-3-11-028389-
Letting the subaltern laugh - Postcolonial readings of humour, laughter and irony in Torjanow's prose-fiction.
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From bilingual to biliterate. Secondary discourse abilities in bilingual children's story-telling. Evidence from Greek heritage language speakers in Germany and the United States.
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