Welcome to the Linguistics Department

In linguistics, we explore different aspects of language structure, use and competence, approaching the latter from the diverging perspectives of language processing, acquisition and didactics. To explore a wide range of issues and topics in various subdisciplines of linguistics, we employ a variety of different research approaches and methods – such as corpus analysis, discourse analysis, interviews, observations of lessons, psycholinguistic experiments, and surveys. Relating empirical research to our own teaching is very important for us. We are thus working in particular on new findings in the structural description of language, language acquisition, the associated cognitive processes, the use of linguistic and non-linguistic means of communication and the didactics of language teaching, and hope to gain a greater understanding of our most important means of communication as a result. Our M. A. Applied Linguistics – Language Use, Processing and Acquisition enables postgraduate students to encounter the different research fields that we work in.

In addition, members of our department also contribute to the following 
Bachelor degree programmes

English and American Studies
German Studies
Special Education Inclusive Pedagogy
Primary Education

and the following Master of Education degree programmes

Special Needs Pedagogy
Primary Schools
Secondary Schools

 

Head of Department

Csaba Földes
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes
Head of Fachgebiet Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
(Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft)
C23 – staff building 1 / Raum 715
+49 361 737-4361
csaba.foeldes@uni-erfurt.de
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News

We welcome Professor Dr Petra Knorr as a new member of the Department of Linguistics!

Professor Knorr has held the professorship for English didactics with a focus on language teaching and learning research since February. A warm welcome!

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New Publication by Sarah-Maria Thumbeck and Frank Domahs

Sarah Maria Thumbeck and Frank Domahs of the UE Psycholinguistics Lab have published a paper with the title "Efficacy of reading strategies on text-level reading comprehension in people with post-stroke chronic aphasia: A repeated measures study".

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Mourning for Professor Hans-Wolfgang Schaller

The University of Erfurt mourns the loss of Professor Dr Dr h.c. Hans-Wolfgang Schaller. The Americanist was the last rector of Erfurt's University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule) and made a special contribution to its integration into the…

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Ina Jessen-Gröschel receives a doctoral scholarship

We congratulate Ina Jessen-Gröschel on her doctoral scholarship as part of the EPPP graduate centre for language proficiency!

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Events

07
Apr
Start of lecture period Summer semester 2025
23
Apr
Literary Salon: "Ein Sommer in Prag"
Contineo book shop, Erfurt
26
Apr
Open Day
Campus
22
May
9th Health Day of the University of Erfurt
University of Erfurt (Campus Nordhäuser Str. 63)
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The Linguistics Department Team