Young adults’ specialized register knowledge: Modeling late linguistic development in L1 and L2 (C05)

• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416591334

C05 investigates and models the L1 and L2 acquisition of academic registers in young adults. We analyse developmental factors and situational parameters affecting the accumulation of specialised linguistic repertoires and register flexibility in higher education. Therefore, we will extend the currently constructed longitudinal written corpus (ReFlexAE) to include oral interactional data from L1 and advanced L2 speakers of German. In modelling the development of register flexibility in academic contexts, we also aim at refining the construct of metalinguistic awareness with regard to the dimensions of situational sensitivity, register awareness and metalinguistic knowledge.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1412: Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Anke Lüdeling; Professorin Dr. Beate Lütke; Dr. Nicole Schumacher