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Prof. Dr. Christian Fandrych

Prof. Dr. Christian Fandrych

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Linguistik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 1010
04107 Leipzig

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Abstract

Professor in Linguistics (German as a Foreign & Second Language)

- Areas of Research & Interest: Vocabulary, Word-Formation, Discourse Analysis, Functional Grammar, Academic Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Language Pedagogy

- Editor-in-chief, research journal 'Deutsch als Fremdsprache'

- Member of the Academic Board, Leibniz-Institut for the German Language (IDS) (since 2020)

- Research Project 'Access to multimodal corpora of spoken German' (ZuMult), with IDS Mannheim and University of Hamburg

- Research Project 'Linguistic patterns in scientific engineering texts' (Gingko)

- Major publications include 'Grammar for German as a Foreign and Second Language' (with M. Thurmair, 2nd ed. 2021), 'German text genres' (with M. Thurmair, 2011), editor of HSK German as a Foreign and Second Language (2010, with H.J. Krumm, B. Hufeisen, C. Riemer)

- Konrad-Duden Prize 2018 for Research in German Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language

Professional career

  • since 09/2006
    Professor in Linguistics in German as a Foreign and Second Language, Herder-Institut, University of Leipzig
  • 09/1996 - 09/2006
    Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics, King's College London, University of London, UK
  • 11/1993 - 08/1996
    Visiting lecturer (German Academic Exchange Service) at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (Foreign Language Centre and MA programme in Applied Linguistics)
  • 12/1991 - 07/1993
    Lecturer, Institute for German as a Foreign Language, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität, Munich
  • 04/1991 - 11/1991
    Research Assistant, Linguistic Atlas of Upper Bavaria (funded by DFG)

Education

  • 08/1989 - 03/1992
    PhD in German as a Foreign Language (minor subects: Moden German Literature, Moden History), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
  • 09/1981 - 06/1989
    Degree in German as a Foreign Language, Modern German Literature and Modern History (Universität Göttingen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

Areas of research include:

  • German vocabulary and word formation in the context of GFL and German as a Second Language, in particular in an academic context
  • grammatical and lexical phenomena and their role in language teaching with a focus on language usage in written and spoken discourse
  • Academic language (from a comparative and didactic perspective)
  • Corpus linguistics and access to corpus linguistic resources for language teaching purposes
  • Language policies and plurilingualism at HE level
  • Text linguistics and text grammar


  • Linguistic patterns in academic engineering texts (Gingko - Corpus of written academic engineering texts)
    Fandrych, Christian
    Duration: 07/2020 – 08/2022
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Linguistik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
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  • Access to multimodal corpora of spoken language - network building and target-group-specific differentiation
    Fandrych, Christian
    Duration: 01/2018 – 03/2022
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Linguistik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
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  • MA Module "Academic German and (linguistic) study skills" (Dhoch3)
    Fandrych, Christian
    Duration: 09/2016 – 12/2020
    Funded by: DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Linguistik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
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  • Co-operation in the areas of postgraduate supervision and research in German as a Foreign Language in an Arab-German context
    Fandrych, Christian
    Duration: 01/2012 – 12/2022
    Funded by: DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Linguistik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
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  • Exchange Programme National University of Languages / Hanoi – Herder-Institut, Leipzig
    Fandrych, Christian
    Duration: 01/2012 – 12/2021
    Funded by: DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Linguistik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache
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more projects

  • Fandrych, C.; Thurmair, M.
    Grammatik im Fach Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Grundlagen und Vermittlung. 2., neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage
    Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. 2021.
    ISBN: 978-3-503-20603-2
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  • Deppermann, A.; Fandrych, C.; Kupietz, M.; Schmidt, T. (Eds.)
    Korpora in der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft. Mündlich, schriftlich, multimedial
    Berlin: de Gruyter. 2023.
    DOI: doi.org/10.1515/9783111085708
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  • Fandrych, C.; Schmidt, T.; Wallner, F.; Wörner, K. (Eds.)
    Zugänge zu mündlichen Korpora für DaF und DaZ: Das ZuMult-Projekt.
    Korpora Deutsch als Fremdsprache . 2023. 3 (1).
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  • Ender, A.; Fandrych, C.; Thurmair, M.
    Der Sprachgebrauch im Fokus. Einige neuere Ansätze und Forschungsfelder im Fach DaF und DaZ
    Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Zeitschrift zur Theorie und Praxis des Faches Deutsch als Fremdsprache. 2023. 60 (1). pp. 3–17.
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  • Fandrych, C.
    Konzepte der Grammatikvermittlung (auch) im Kontext mündlicher und digitaler Kommunikation
    Beiträge zur Methodik und Didaktik Deutsch als Fremd*Zweitsprache.. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. 2023. pp. 59–72.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.37307/b.978-3-503-21108-1
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Research fields

Linguistics

Specializations

  • Sprachdidaktik
  • Hochschulkommunikation
  • Textsorten
  • Entwicklung des Deutschen

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