Dr Sylvia Jaworska
German Language Studies Co-ordinator
Location: Arts One 2.01email: s.jaworska@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: (+44) 020-7882-8339
Fax: (+44) 020-8980-5400
Office hours during term times:
Monday: 4pm - 5pm
Tuesday: 2pm - 3pm
& by appointment
Research Interests:
Corpus Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
German and English for Academic Purposes
Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages (DaF)
History of British German Studies/ Anglo-German Cultural Transfers
Teaching:
I am teaching and/or organising the following courses:
Language Modules:
German I (GER051)
German II (GER212)
German I & II Intensive (GER103, GER203)
Introductory German (GER100, GER026, GER027)
Content Modules
Languages in the Classroom (GER604)
Corpus Linguistics (LIN506)
Digital Literacy & Intercultural Communication (COM603)
Administration:
Chair of the Year Abroad Committee
Vacation Grants Coordinator
Departmental Webmaster
Publications
Monograph
2009. The German language in British Higher Education: problems, challenges, teaching and learning perspectives (Series: Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, ISBN: 978-3-447-06005-9.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2012. On the F-word: a corpus-based analysis of the media representation of Feminism in British and German press discourse, 1990–2009. In: Discourse & Society 23(4): 1-31, DOI: 10.1177/0957926512441113 (with Ramesh Krishnamurthy).
2012 (forthcoming). State of the Art Review of Recent Research in Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache in comparison with English for Academic Purposes: cross-influences, synergies and implications for further research. In: Language Teaching (CUP).
2011. Anti-slavic imagery in German radical nationalist discourse. In: Patterns of Prejudice 45(5): 435–452, DOI:10.1080/0031322X.2011.624762
2011. Der Wissenschaftlichkeit auf der Spur: Zum Einsatz von Korpora in der Vermittlung des Deutschen als (fremder) Wissenschaftssprache. In: Deutsch als Fremdsprache 4: 235–244.
2011. Women, Power and the Media. Assessing the bias. In: Journal of Pragmatics 43: 2477–79 (with Pierre Larrivée), DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.02.008
2010. Anglo-German Academic Encounters before the First World War and the Work towards Peace: The Case of Karl Breul. In: ANGERMION Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, vol. 3. Berlin/New York, Walter De Gruyter: 135-160, DOI: 10.1515/9783110222715.2.135
2004. Deutsche und britische Lehr- und Lernkultur im Konflikt: Ein Fallbeispiel. In: Theorie und Praxis. Österreichische Beiträge zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Jahrbuch Bd. 8: 49–59.
2002. Responses to the decline in Germanistik in the UK. In: German as a foreign language 3: 1–24 (with Jonathan Grix).
Chapters in Edited Volumes
2009. The German language in Poland: the eternal foe and the wars on words. In: Carl, J. & Stevenson, P. (Eds.). Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe. The German Language in a Multilingual Space. London, Palgrave: 51–72 .
2009. Where have all the linguists gone? The position of Linguistics in British German Studies from the mid-19th century until 2000. In: Falco Pfalzgraf (Ed.). English in Contact with Varieties of German. Wien, Frankfurt a. M. u.a., Peter Lang: 13–33.
2005. Zur derzeitigen Situation der Auslandsgermanistik. Das Modell der britischen German Studies und der polnischen Germanistik im Vergleich. In: Fehringer, Carol / Briel, Holger (Eds.). Field Studies. German Language, Media and Culture. Frankfurt a. M. u.a. Peter Lang: 75–102.
Edited Journal
2011. Women, Power and the Media. Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics 43 (with Pierre Larrivée).
Reviews
2010. Fortgeschrittene Lernervarietäten. Korpuslinguistik und Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Maik Walter/ Patrick Gommes (Eds.). Niemeyer , Tübingen, 2008, in: Deutsch als Fremdsprache 1: 48–49.
Research Projects
What's Hard in German? WHiG (Bangor University/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) formulaic language, collocations, corpus-based learning and teaching
Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache kontrastiv, GeWiss (Leipzig Universität/Aston University/ Wroclaw University): Spoken Academic Discourse - English in comparison to German and Polish
Affiliations
Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS)
British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS)
Women in German Studies (WIGS)