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 - 12.2025
Seit Jahren wird eine stärkere Verbindung zwischen dem Schulsprachen- und dem Fremdsprachenunterricht gefordert, um mögliche Synergien zu nutzen. Bisher ist der Sprachenunterricht jedoch nach wie vor weitgehend einzelsprachlich ausgerichtet....
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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“.
