Eliane Lorenz
Background and activities
News:
Forthcoming monograph (November 2022):
Lorenz, E. (forthcoming/2022). Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Bilingual heritage speakers in Germany. New York, London: Routledge.
The first papers of the Special Issue of Languages: "Learning and Teaching of English in the Multilingual Classroom: English Teachers’ Perspectives, Practices, and Purposes" have now been published.
Also, have a look at my Blog entry from April 2020.
General Information
Eliane Lorenz is a senior researcher and lecturer (Akademische Rätin a.Z) at the Chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Mukherjee) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. In addition, she is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Teacher Education at NTNU, as part of the project The acquisition of English in the multilingual classroom (AcEngMulCla). Since early 2019, she has also been part of the sociolinguistics project Language, Attitudes and Repertoires in the Emirates (LARES). She completed her PhD in English Linguistics in 2019 at the University of Hamburg. In her doctoral dissertation she focused on unbalanced bilingual heritage speakers in the context of the acquisition of tense and aspect in the additional language English. In addition, she was an affiliated researcher of the project Multilingual development: a longitudinal perspective (MEZ).
Research Interest
Contrastive linguistics
Corpus linguistics
English as a lingua franca
Heritage bilingualism
Learner corpus research
Multilingualism
Second and third language acquisition
Typology
Varieties of English
Teaching
[University of Giessen]
Summer term 2022
Contrastive linguistics: English-German contrasts and beyond (BA)
Data collection & Analysis (MA)
Winter term 2021/22
Corpus linguistics: Analysis of (learner) variation (MA)
Varieties of English around the world (BA)
Summer term 2021
Corpus linguistics: Analysis of (learner) variation
[University of Potsdam]
Summer term 2021
Contrastive linguistics: English-German contrasts and beyond
[University of Hamburg]
Summer term 2019
Learner Corpus Research
Winter term 2018/19
Second and Third Language Acquisition
Summer term 2018
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
Winter term 2017/18
Multilingual Development
Summer term 2017
Tense & Aspect: Contrast, Variation & Typology
Winter term 2016/ 17
English-German Contrasts
Summer term 2016
English Pronouns: Grammar, Variation, & Change
[University of Jena]
Summer term 2012
Tutorial: Introduction to Literary Studies II
Summer term 2011
Tutorial: Introduction to Literary Studies II
Scholarships & External Funding
2019 Travel grant (L3 Workshop in Konstanz)
2019 DFG (German Research Foundation) grant to conduct
a sociolinguistic study in the greater area of
Dubai/Sharjah:
Project LARES (Language Attitudes and Repertoires in
the Emirates)
PIs: Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund (University Hamburg),
Dr. Jakob Leimgruber (University of Freiburg);
Research assistants:
K. Feindt, L. Li, E. Lorenz, S. Rahbari
2018 DAAD Congress travel grant (IAM L3 Lissabon)
2017 DAAD Congress travel grant (SLE Meeting in Zurich)
2017 Research grant of the Übersee-Club e.V. Hamburg
2014-2015 Scholarship holder of the Scholarship of Germany
2011-2012 Erasmus scholarship (University of Jaén, Spain)
Publications
Lorenz, E. (forthcoming/2022). Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Bilingual heritage speakers in Germany. New York, London: Routledge.
Leimgruber, J. R. E., Al-Issa, A., Lorenz, E., & Siemund, P. (2022). Managing and investing in hybrid identities in the globalized United Arab Emirates. Journal of Language, Identity & Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2022.2070849
Lorenz, E. (2022). “We use English but not like all the time like.” – Discourse marker like in UAE English. Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.778036
Lorenz, E., Toprak, T. E., & Siemund, P. (2022). Why are they so similar? The interplay of linguistic and extra-linguistic variables in monolingual and bilingual learners of English. Pedagogical Linguistics.
Lorenz, E., Toprak, T. E., & Siemund, P. (2021). English L3 acquisition in heritage contexts: Modelling a path through the bilingualism controversy. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 57(2): 273-298. https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2021-0012
Lorenz, E., Hasai, Y., & Siemund, P. (2021). Multilingual lexical transfer challenges monolingual educational norms: not quite! Multilingua 40(6): 791-813. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2021-0014.
Lorenz, E., Krulatz, A., & Torgersen, E. (2021). Embracing linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual EAL classrooms: The impact of professional development on teacher beliefs and practice. Teaching and Teacher Education 105: 103428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103428.
Lorenz, E. (2021). Book review: Romanowski, P. & Guardado, M. 2018. The many faces of multilingualism. Language status, learning and use across contexts. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Journal of Language Contact 14(2): 483–488. https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14020008-02
Lorenz, E., Rahbari, S., Schackow, U., & Siemund, P. (2020). Does bilingualism correlate with or predict higher proficiency in L3 English? A contrastive study of monolingual and bilingual learners. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices 1(2): 185–217. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmtp.15517
Lorenz, E. & Siemund, P. (2020). The Acquisition of English as an Additional Language by Multilingual Heritage Speakers. In Die Auswirkungen der Migration auf Sprach- und Kulturräume. The Impact of Migration on Language Culture Areas, U. Hoinkes & M. Meyer (eds), pp. 111–134. Bern: Peter Lang.
Lorenz, E. & Siemund, P. (2019). Differences in the acquisition and production of English as a foreign language. A study based on bilingual and monolingual students. In International Research on Multilingualism. Breaking with the Monolingual Perspective, E. Vetter & U. Jessner (eds), pp. 81–102. Dordrecht: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Lorenz, E. (2019c). Analysis of verb phrases and the progressive aspect in a learner corpus of L2 and L3 learners of English. In Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research. Selected Papers from the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference 2017, A. Abel, A. Glaznieks, V. Lyding & L. Nicholas (eds), , pp. 253–287. Louvain le Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
Lorenz, E. (2019b). Book review: Torres Cacoullos, R. & Travis, C.E. 2018. Bilingualism in the Community. Code-switching and Grammars in Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Language Contact 12(2): 527–535.
Lorenz, E. (2019a). The use of tense and aspect in the additional language English by monolingual speakers and bilingual heritage speakers. PhD Dissertation. University of Hamburg. Submitted: 27 March 2019.
Lorenz, E., Bonnie, R.J., Feindt, K., Rahbari, S. & Siemund, P. (2019). Cross-linguistic influence in unbalanced bilingual heritage speakers on subsequent language acquisition: evidence from pronominal object placement in ditransitive clauses. International Journal of Bilingualism 23(6): 1410–1430.
Lorenz, E. (2018). "One day a father and his son going fishing on the Lake." - A study on the use of the progressive aspect of monolingual and bilingual learners of English. In Andreas Bonnet & Peter Siemund (eds.). Foreign Languages in Multilingual Classrooms. Hamburg Studies on Linguisitic Diversity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Rahbari, S., Gabriel, C., Krause, M., Siemund, P., Bonnie, R.J., Dittmers (née Pron), T., Feindt, K., Lorenz, E., Topal, S. (2018). Die linguistische Vertiefungsstudie des Projekts Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf (MEZ). Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 210 S. - (MEZ Arbeitspapiere; 2) - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-155694.
Dünkel, N., Heimler, J., Brandt, H., Gogolin, I. (eds.). (2018). Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf. Ausgewählte Daten und Ergebnisse. Authors: Bonnie, R.J., Brandt, H., Dünkel, N., Feindt, K., Gabriel, C., Gogolin, I., Klinger, T., Krause, M., Lagemann, M., Lorenz, E., Rahbari, S., Schnoor, B., Siemund, P., Usanova, I. Hamburg (University of Hamburg), Mimeo.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
2022
- (2022) “We use English but not like all the time like.” – Discourse marker like in UAE English. Frontiers in Communication.
- (2022) Why are they so similar? The interplay of linguistic and extra-linguistic variables in monolingual and bilingual learners of English. Pedagogical Linguistics.
2021
- (2021) Book review: Romanowski, P. & Guardado, M. 2018. The many faces of multilingualism. Language status, learning and use across contexts. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Journal of Language Contact. vol. 14 (2).
- (2021) Multilingual lexical transfer challenges monolingual educational norms: not quite!. Multilingua - Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communiciation. vol. 40 (6).
- (2021) Embracing linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual EAL classrooms: The impact of professional development on teacher beliefs and practice. Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies. vol. 105.
- (2021) English L3 acquisition in heritage contexts: Modelling a path through the bilingualism controversy. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. vol. 57 (2).
2020
- (2020) Does bilingualism correlate with or predict higher proficiency in L3 English? A contrastive study of monolingual and bilingual learners. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices (JMTP). vol. 1 (2).
- (2020) The Acquisition of English as an Additional Language by Multilingual Heritage Speakers. Der Einfluss der Migration auf Sprach- und Kulturräume / The Impact of Migration on Linguistic and Cultural Areas.
2019
- (2019) Analysis of verb phrases and the progressive aspect in a learner corpus of L2 and L3 learners of English. Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research Selected Papers from the Fourth Learner Corpus Research Conference.
- (2019) Book review: Torres Cacoullos, R. & Travis, C.E. 2018. Bilingualism in the Community. Code-switching and Grammars in Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Language Contact. vol. 12 (2).
- (2019) The use of tense and aspect in the additional language English by monolingual speakers and bilingual heritage speakers. 2019.
- (2019) Cross-linguistic influence in unbalanced bilingual heritage speakers on subsequent language acquisition: evidence from pronominal object placement in ditransitive clauses. International Journal of Bilingualism. vol. 23 (6).
- (2019) Differences in the acquisition and production of English as a foreign language. A study based on bilingual and monolingual students. International Research on Multilingualism: Breaking with the Monolingual Perspective.
2018
- (2018) "One day a father and his son going fishing on the Lake." - A study on the use of the progressive aspect of monolingual and bilingual learners of English. Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms.