Welcome to the Linguistics Department

In linguistics, we explore different aspects of language structure, use and competence, approaching the latter from the diverging perspectives of language processing, acquisition and didactics. To explore a wide range of issues and topics in various subdisciplines of linguistics, we employ a variety of different research approaches and methods – such as corpus analysis, discourse analysis, interviews, observations of lessons, psycholinguistic experiments, and surveys. Relating empirical research to our own teaching is very important for us. We are thus working in particular on new findings in the structural description of language, language acquisition, the associated cognitive processes, the use of linguistic and non-linguistic means of communication and the didactics of language teaching, and hope to gain a greater understanding of our most important means of communication as a result. Our M. A. Applied Linguistics – Language Use, Processing and Acquisition enables postgraduate students to encounter the different research fields that we work in.

In addition, members of our department also contribute to the following 
Bachelor degree programmes

English and American Studies
German Studies
Special Education Inclusive Pedagogy
Primary Education

and the following Master of Education degree programmes

Special Needs Pedagogy
Primary Schools
Secondary Schools

 

Head of Department

Head of Fachgebiet Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
(Department of Linguistics)
C23 – staff building 1 / Raum 715

News

Jasmin Wend is joining us as a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the "Writing Weak Syllables" project. We wish her every success!

The Graduate Centre "Sprachbeherrschung" welcomes two new members: Anna Thomas and Vadim Rodt, both of whom have also completed the Master's programme in Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt.

A warm welcome!

Congratulations to Gila Schauer, Professor of English and Applied Linguistics in our department, on the publication of the edited volume “Second Language Pragmatics and Young Language Learners - EFL Primary School Contexts in Europe” with European…

Sarah-Maria Thumbeck, member of the Graduate Centre 'Sprachbeherrschung', together with Laima Eicke, whose dissertation was also awarded summa cum laude, has received the 2025 Doctoral Prize for her 2024 dissertation on ‘Text comprehension disorders…

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The Linguistics Department Team