Overview of current and completed research projects at the School of Applied Linguistics in Winterthur
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Integrated Reading and Writing Support in Vocational Education and Training
For a majority of students in vocational education and training schools, and in particular for those with a migration background, reading and writing are complex cognitive and linguistic challenges that are not always mastered successfully. However, reading and writing skills are not only important requirements for ...
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CEFR for Sign Languages
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JUSTISIGNS - Legal interpreting and sign language
Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 establishes common minimum rules for European Union (EU) countries on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings. As a main partner in the EU’s JUSTISIGNS research project (Legal interpreting and ...
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Joint Translation and Interpreting Development Effort inThailand and the ASEAN Region (TIDE)
Demand for translation and interpreting services in the ASEAN countries is rising rapidly. Meanwhile, there are too few translators and interpreters, translation and interpreting quality is insufficient and training opportunities are inadequate. Headed up by the Thai President of the Association of Asian ...
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Communication and Media development for the Swiss Trade Union of the Transport Personnel (SEV)
The trade union SEV is the largest and strongest Swiss trade union in the field of public transport (public transport) and tourist trains. It organizes the staff in the sectors train, bus/local transport, shipping, tourist trains and air transport. The OKOE Center for the Study of Organizational Communication and ...
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Farmer-driven organic resource management to build soil fertility and improve food security
The decline of soil fertility is a major threat to agriculture and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Enforced organic matter production by modern agroforestry systems (planting of nitrogen fixing trees, leguminous shrubs together with food crops), as well as the use of mulch and compost have shown to ...
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COST Action – Strengthening Europeans' capabilities by establishing the European literacy network
Capabilities are not only abilities that reside inside humans, but they also comprise the political, social, and economic environment. Literacy is a capability whose fulcrum is far away from the individual, depending crucially on societal forces that can hinder or promote human development. The efficiency of ...
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Worlds of Journalism: Switzerland
The principal purpose of the research project is to help journalism researchers, policy makers and practitioners better understand the changes that are taking place in the professional orientations of journalists, the constraints under which they work, as well as the social functions of journalism in a changing ...
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Thesis Writer: A Web-based Learning Environment to Support Dissertation Projects (BA, MA and Doctoral Theses)
Scientific writing is a, and perhaps the key competence one acquires during tertiary education. Not only students who acquire this skill, but also lecturers who teach writing for higher education are confronted with a series of challenges. A new web-based learning environment, based on applied research, ...
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EPICUR II
The European Journalism Observatory (EJO, de.ejo-online.eu), which currently operates in 13 languages (Albanian, Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Portuguese and Russian) was the basis of the project. This AGORA project extended and strengthened EJO’s network ...
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Cognitive and Physical Ergonomics of Translation
Like many other knowledge workers, professional translators spend much of their day making decisions at a computer: reading texts in one language, searching for background information in many languages, referring to terminology databanks to ensure consistency and appropriacy of lexical choices, checking parallel ...
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Overcoming Language Barriers in Homecare Nursing (OLBiHN)
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ProDoc: Argumentation in newsmaking process and product
The present RM examines the role of argumentative practices – i.e. practices of socialized reasoning and reason-giving – in newsmaking discourse and in news discourse, by examining both argumentation in the news production process and argumentation in the textual news products. The research takes a ...
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LIDHUM – Literacy Development in the Humanities
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Development of the ELPAC Level 6 Test for Air Traffic Controllers
In 2008 the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) implemented language proficiency requirements for air traffic controllers and pilots. To this end, ICAO introduced a rating scale with six levels of language proficiency. Level 4 is the so-called operational level that test takers need to demonstrate to ...
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Academic Writing Cultures in Contrast.
This project aims at creating institutional partnerships with three universities in Eastern European countries to develop organizational structures for the study and fostering of academic literay in the humanities. Teaching based on research-oriented and independent learning in the post-communist countries is still ...
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Modeling Writing Phases
Writing is a key component of practically all domains of human endeavor. Through writing, we build up social networks, develop projects, inform colleagues and customers, and generate the basis for decisions. The quality of writing is often decisive for social resonance and professional success. Nevertheless, we ...
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The weighting of journalistic competences from the perspective of students
1 Initial positionAt the AGM in 2006 in Estonia the EJTA European Journalism Training Association has developed the Tartu-declaration. In the declaration ten main journalistic competences each with five journalistic qualifications are set out. Although all of these 50 qualifications are of great importance, new ...
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Evaluation Science Journalism Cooperation Project
The project assesses whether a large scale training programme on science journalism in Africa and the Arab World achieves its goals. It aims at improving quality of reporting and achieving an impact on policy change. Baseline studies and follow-ups on a large scale are conducted (survey of training participants, ...
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Usability study in the area of radiation therapy
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Interpreting in Medical Settings: Roles, Requirements and Responsibility
This project aimed to produce a differentiated depiction of medical interpreting activities based on the implementation and analysis of a written questionnaire on the expectations of the professional profile, practical interpreting activities and, in particular, interpreter role behaviour from various ...
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Enabling Health Communication - Feasibility Study
By means of interviews and focus group discussions health information needs in a particular Kenyan region (Kilifi district, Coast) will be evaluated, as well as shortcomings and problems of health journalism as seen by different stakeholders.
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Cross-cultural translation, adaptation and validiation of the Pediatric Evaulation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) für den deutschsprachigen Raum in Europa
Introduction Current developments in the health sector have promoted the necessity of having valid and reliable assessments in practice in Switzerland. Occupational therapists as a member of a caring profession are concerned with the integration of people with disabilities into community living and the promotion of ...
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Writing Cultures and Academic Mobility
Die Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, aber auch die Sprach- und Kulturräume haben je eigene Vorstellungen dafür entwickelt, welche Textgenres zur Wissenschaftskommunikation und im Hochschulunterricht einzusetzen sind. Die Genres selbst wie auch die zu ihrer Herstellung benötigte Genrekompetenzen sind, trotz Globalisierung ...
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Capturing Translation Processes (CTP)
The question of what translators really do when they translate and how they do it is the focus of this applied linguistics project, a large-scale longitudinal workplace study of translation processes and the development of translation competence. By “translation processes”, we mean the entire process of ...
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COST Action – The European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively
It is mainly through writing that knowledge is created and shared across boundaries of culture. A key objective is to improve our understanding of how written production is mastered and how this learning process can be made more effective for each and every European citizen, especially children at school and adults ...