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Researcher

Tom Smits

  • Research Expertise:I. Educational Sciences (1) German and English Teaching Methodology: German and English as a Foreign Language (DaF, TEFL), CALL (2) General pedagogy: urban education, multiple perspective learning, differentiated instruction II. Linguistics (1) Applied linguistics (cf I.) (2) Variational linguistics of German
  • Keywords:FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING, APPLIED LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE VARIATION, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)
  • Disciplines:Education curriculum, Instructional sciences, Language studies
  • Research techniques:Research methods in Education and Applied Linguistics: - qualitative and ethnographic research (observation, interview, CA, grounded theory) - case studies - (quasi-)experiments - meta-analysis and reviews - action research - mixed methods Research Methods in Variational Linguistics: - Empirical Research: survey, interview - Corpus Analysis
  • Users of research expertise:- Teacher Educators - Language Teachers and Learners - (Applied and variational) Linguists