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Dr. Naomi Shafer

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Associated researcher

+41 26 305 61 80
naomi.shafer@unifr.ch

Research interests

  • Language acquisition and language learning
  • German as a Foreign / Second Language
  • Language variation
  • Language and Culture
  • Evaluation of L2 competences 

Research projects (direction)

Title

Learning German in Israel

Duration

01.2019 - 12.2020

The project looks at learning and teaching German as a Foreign Language in Israel, where after 1945 the German language was looked down upon and where learning German still does not seem self-evident today. Proceeding from the historically...

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Title

Dealing with standard variation in German as a foreign language

Duration

01.2018

The project deals with the linguistic diversity of German as a foreign language from a theoretical as well as practical point of view. The empirical study sheds light on the question of how GFL-beginners (CEFR level A2) deal with standard...

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Research projects (collaboration)

Title

How do you speak Swiss? Consensus Democracy, Multilingualism and Political Participation

Duration

02.2024 - 12.2026

This interdisciplinary research project focuses on the relationship between multilingualism and plurilingualism, political institutions and legal conditions in Switzerland. The Swiss Confederation is a federal state with four national languages....

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Publications

Shafer, Naomi (2018): Varietäten und Varianten verstehen lernen: Zum Umgang mit Standardvariation in Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag. Online (View Document): https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-383-6.