Research Area
Active Research fields
1. Cognition, motivation and emotions in language learning, especially of German as a foreign language
2. Training of German language teachers for lower- and upper-secondary schools, teaching methods, classroom observation
3. Classroom interaction/analisi multimodale
4. Methodology of qualitative research, especially videography
Research projects of the last 5 years
Prin 2010 project “Canone letterario e lessico delle emozioni nel Medioevo europeo: un network di risorse on line (bibliografia, manoscritti, strumenti multimediali)”, coordinator Roberto Antonelli (01/02/2013-01/02/2016)
“Lehrkompetenzentwicklung für extensiven Leseunterricht” (LEELU) Project within the Erasmus+ programme (2016-2019) together with the University of Vienna (Karen Schramm), University of Budapest (Ilona Feld-Knapp), and University of Utrecht (Ewout van der Knapp)
link: www.leelu.eu
Collaborations
Erasmus+ programme KA2 (2016-2019) together with the University of Vienna (Karen Schramm), University of Budapest (Ilona Feld-Knapp), and University of Utrecht (Ewout van der Knapp)
classroom interaction: joint research project with the University of Karlsruhe (Götz Schwab)
multimodal analysis: joint research project with the University di Hawaii (Gabriele Kasper)