Research
Our research is mainly focused on multilingualism and the question of how and under what conditions multilingualism can be supported in the best way – both in and outside of educational institutions. The research focus lies mainly upon the following areas: bilingual education in kindergarten/pre-school, primary and secondary school; first and second language acquisition; early foreign language learning; media use in foreign language teaching.
Here you can find all of our current research projects.
- Research at our Chair
- DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space (GRK 2839) – Project: Representation and Acquisition of Idiomatic Constructions in L1 and L2
- Follow-up study at secondary schools in Bavaria: Longitudinal effects of the project “Learning in two languages – Bilingual Primary School English”
- Wissenschaftliche Begleitung Bilinguale Grundschule Französisch Bayern
- Reading and writing in primary schools with different foreign language programmes
- Young learners’ development of Spanish and German reading and writing skills
- Bilingual kindergartens and bilingual toddler groups: The development of language and interaction skills
- Development of subject knowledge in bilingual primary schools
- QITA – Quality development in bi-/multilingual kindergartens
