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Annette Fahrner (verteidigt)

EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

since October 2018
Research Assistant at KIT
KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

April 2017 - September 2018
Teacher for German as a Foreign Language
Goethe-Institut Mannheim, KIT Karlsruhe

April 2016 - March 2017
Research Assistant, Department of German Studies,
Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe

February 2013 - November 2017
PhD at GRK 1624 (Research Training Group) "Frequency Effects in Language"
University of Freiburg

October 2010 - January 2013
Master of Arts in German as a Foreign Language ("Fremdsprache Deutsch / Interkulturelle Germanistik")
University of Freiburg

October 2007 - July 2010
Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and History ("Germanistik und Geschichte")
University of Freiburg


SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

February 2010 - February 2013
Research Assistant, Department of German Language, Prof. Dr. Peter Auer
University of Freiburg

November 2008 - April 2011
Research Assistant at FRIAS School of History
University of Freiburg


TALKS and PRESENTATIONS

November 2015: "A Constructionist Approach to the Classification of the German Pronoun 'es'" (invited talk)
Workshop "Seminar on the Syntax of Spoken Language", organised by CoCoLaC, University of Helsinki (Finland)

October 2015: "Frequency effects in Second Language Acquisition: The acquisition of German constructions with the pronoun 'es'" (talk)
Workshop "Frequency Effects in Construction Grammar", University of Freiburg

July 2015: "Fremdsprachenerwerb aus gebrauchsbasierter konstruktionsgrammatischer Perspektive: Frequenzeffekte beim Erwerb von "es"-Konstruktionen durch spanischsprachige Deutschlerner" (talk)
Workshop "Bridging a Gap with Construction Grammar: Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Varieties of English", University of Freiburg

June 2015: "Frequency Effects in Second Language Acquisition (SLA): The Acquisition of German Constructions with the Pronoun 'es'" (talk)
"Thinking, Doing, Learning (TDL2): Usage-based Perspectives on Second Language Learning", University of Groningen (Netherlands)

October 2014: "A Constructionist Approach to the Classification of the German Subject Pronoun 'es'" (talk)
DGKL6, University of Erlangen

September 2014: "A Constructionist Approach to the Classification of the German Pronoun 'es'" (talk)
ICCG8, University of Osnabrück

July 2014: "The Acquisition of Constructions with the German Pronoun 'es' in SLA" (poster)
Workshop "Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Language Learning and Processing", University of Tübingen


WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

October 2015: "Frequency Effects in Construction Grammar", University of Freiburg, 23.10. - 24.10.2015,
co-organization with Uliana Schöller
Keynote addresses: Adele Goldberg, Martin Hilpert

July 2015: "Bridging a Gap with Construction Grammar: Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Varieties of English", University of Freiburg, 06.07. - 07.07.2015,
co-organization with Stephanie Horch and Boniface Nkombong
Keynote addresses: Thomas Hoffmann, Ute Römer


TEACHING

Winter term 2013/2014
Tutorial accompanying introductory lecture to German linguistics ("Einführung in die Linguistik")
University of Freiburg

Winter term 2012/2013
Tutorial for non-native linguistic graduate and PhD students
University of Freiburg

Summer term 2012
German class (level: B1)
University of Freiburg

Winter term 2011/2012
German class (level: B2)
University of Freiburg

Since August 2011
Several German intensive courses
Goethe-Institut Nancy (France)