Lisa-Christine Altendorf, M.A.
(she/her)
I am a research assistant for the LETS team and a PhD student of Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich.
Contact
altendorf[at]uni-bonn.de
Rabinstraße 8, Room 2.059
Office Hours (Summer 2023)
Last office hour: Wednesday, 27th, 13:00 - 14:00
In the winter semester, office hours can be agreed upon via email
Research Interests
- Audiovisual Translation Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Language on Social Media
- Computer Mediated Communication
- Second Language Acquisition
CV
Since 2022:
PhD student, Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Sprachwissenschaft, University of Bonn, Germany
Working title: Extramural activities and English language learning in German EFL students
2019 - 2022:
M.A. Applied Linguistics, University of Bonn, Germany
Thesis: "Exploring the connection between extramural online activities, lexical diversity, and errors in German upper grade students"
2016 - 2019:
B.A. English Studies and German Studies, Bonn University, Germany
Presentations
"Extramural activities and their relationship with English as a foreign language: Internetese and standard English?" An investigation into lexical richness in German learners' writing. Talk at the Language Learning and Teaching in Digital Transformation Conference at PH Luzern, September 2023.
"Extramural activities and their relationship with English as a foreign language – Internetese versus standard English?" Poster at the 12th "Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference" in Bonn, July 2023.
- "Extramural activities and their relationship with English as a foreign language – Internetese versus standard English?" Poster at the Anela/ VIOT Juniorendag 2023, April 2023. Awarded with the poster prize.
- "Extramural activities and their relationship with English as a foreign language – Internetese versus standard English?" Talk at the 4th "Nachwuchstagung Englische Linguistik" in Bonn, March 2023.
- "Extramural Activities And German Students’ Proneness to Errors." Poster presentation at the "72. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS)", November 2022.
- "Extramural activities and German students' lexical diversity in written texts: A case study." Talk at the "International Virtual Conference on Language and Literature (IVICOLL)" held by The Language Centre of State Polytechnic of Malang, October 2022.
- "Exploring the connection between extramural online activities and English competence in German upper grade students". Talk at the "11th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference", July 2022.
- "The protest paradigm and Black Lives Matter movements in 2020: how do US American and German news differ in their reports on the events?". Talk at the "34th Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies (CATS)", May 2022 (online conference).
- "Inivitation or offer? - Speech act recognition by German and American language users". Talk at the "10th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference", July 2021 (online conference).
- "Collocational competence at university level - a case study of crosslinguistic influence between German and English". Talk at the Nachwuchstagung für Englische Linguistik (NEL3), February 2021 (online conference).
- "'Sed Lex, Dura Lex' - Of Law Making and Breaking in The Shadowhunter Chronicles". Talk at "Understanding Imaginary Worlds": A students' conference on world-building in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Beyond , June 2019.
Publications