Research assistant
+44 7378 980909
nina.hicks@unifr.ch
- Foreign language education
- Corpus-based language acquisition research
- Multilingualism & crosslinguistic influence
Research projects (collaboration)
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Duration
01.2025 - 12.2028
Calls for a stronger pedagogical connection between teaching the language of schooling and teaching foreign languages have been made for years, as it is believed learners might benefit from the potential synergies. However, language lessons...
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Duration
03.2016 - 12.2024
SWIKO is a multilingual learner corpus describing learner language according to principles of corpus-linguistics. The corpus is an umbrella project developed during the 2016–2019 research period and being further developed in the 2021–2024...
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Title
WETLAND
Further development and applications of the Swiss learner corpus SWIKO
Duration
07.2021 - 07.2024
In line with the strong presence of usage-based approaches to language description and research in language acquisition, research in corpus linguistics has intensified and diversified in recent years. This applies equally to corpus-based...
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Publications
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- Hicks, Nina Selina (2021). Exploring systematic orthographic crosslinguistic similarities to enhance foreign language vocabulary learning. Language Teaching Research.
- Karges, Katharina, Studer, Thomas & Hicks, Nina Selina (2022). Lernersprache, Aufgabe und Modalität: Beobachtungen zu Texten aus dem Schweizer Lernerkorpus SWIKO. ZGL, Themenheft „Gesprochene Lernerkorpora des Deutschen“.
