Lena Heine

• Ruhr University Bochum

Although many advances have been made in recent years concerning the theoretical dimensions of CLIL, research is still struggling with the necessity to come up with integrative models that adequately map the interrelation between content and language learning in CLIL contexts. This article will suggest that recent models of the bilingual lexicon ma...

ADHD und Fremdsprachenlernen ADHD and Foreign Language Learning Zusammenfassung: Viele Schülerinnen und Schüler weisen Symptome einer Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, deutsch: Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung) auf, was es zu einem Thema auch für den Fremdsprachenunterricht macht. Dies ist insbesondere der Fall, weil oft...

Previous studies suggest that sentence-linking elements, like connectives, enhance text comprehension sincethey help produce a context of meaning. However, there is no evidence yet on whether connectives influence theunderstanding and solving of reality-based mathematical tasks. In this study, reality-based tasks were varied tocreate two versions w...

Zusammenfassung Viele Schülerinnen und Schüler weisen Symptome einer Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, deutsch: AufmerksamkeitsdefizitHyperaktivitätsstörung) auf, was es zu einem Thema auch für den Fremdsprachenunterricht macht. Dies ist insbesondere der Fall, weil oft von einem Zusammenhang zwischen ADHD und sprachspezifischen Fertig...

Students with high reading proficiency typically achieve better results in science assessments, indicating the importance of reading proficiency. Since the process of reading is a complex interaction between properties of a text and a reader, the linguistic demands of a text might affect text comprehension. Certain linguistic features, such as comp...

Der Sammelband richtet sich an alle, die an der Schnittstelle von Fach- und Sprachlernen im Feld Sprachlicher Bildung forschen. Er bietet einen längst überfälligen Überblick über verschiedene Sprachtheorien mit Blick auf ihr Potential zur Erklärung der Beziehung zwischen Sprache und (fachbezogenem) Denken. Namenhafte Vertrerlnnen unterschiedlicher...

This article reviews a purposive sample of 16 doctoral dissertations in second language (L2) education, completed between 2014 and 2018 and published in German, in Germany. Among the 103 relevant dissertations found from this period, a total of 12 thematic strands were identified, of which five were chosen as being particularly common and thus warr...

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the relationship between academic language registers and school success in the German-speaking education system. However, we still know very little about the actual effects that academic language has on the academic performance of students, for instance, in how far the extent to which academic langu...

This paper addresses the question if and to which extent linguistic surface features of test items in a physics assessment affect item difficulty. In an experimental study, linguistic features of test items in physics were varied systematically on three levels based on a heuristic model of linguistic demands. The results show that item difficulty c...

Immer mehr Kinder und Jugendliche im schulpflichtigen Alter kommen aufgrund von Krieg und wirtschaftlichen Krisen nach Deutschland. Kommunen stehen dabei vor der Aufgabe, sie möglichst umgehend in das Schulsystem zu integrieren und zu fördern. Dabei besteht der Anspruch an Lehrkräfte, professionell auf die sprachliche und kulturelle Heterogenität d...

Although many advances have been made in recent years concerning the theoretical dimensions of content and language integrated learning (CLIL), research still has to meet the necessity to come up with integrative models that adequately map the interrelation between content and language learning in CLIL contexts. This article will suggest that recen...

This paper focuses on English yes-no interrogatives of the type Would you like/Do you want [NP]? and their elliptical variants You like/You want [NP]?, Like/Want [NP]? and [NP]? . The central question is what type of theoretical relationship can be assumed between the different forms. A theoretical discussion of different traditional approaches and...

Although Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a popular teaching method, research on CLIL has nearly exclusively focused on aspects of language learning. Besides that, we are still lacking any cognitively well-grounded theory about the special features of contexts in which the focus is on content learning, but in which a foreign langu...

This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to interpret the data. The articles contain information on the...

1. Forschungsgegenstand und Fragestellungen Die im Folgenden dargestellte Studie geht auf unterschiedlicher Weise der Frage nach, wie sich Einflüsse vorher gelernter Sprachen bei Sprechern zeigen, die drei oder mehrere Sprachen beherrschen und welche Voraussetzungen erfüllt sein müssen, damit es zu solch einer Beeinflussung kommt. Ziel der Studie i...