Sven Saage

Kurzbiographie

Since 2008 Research Assistant at the ZMI

2006 - 2008 Student assistant in the Department of English linguistics (Chair Prof. Mukherjee) in the "Förderfondsprojekt zur Ausbau der korpuslinguistischen Arbeitsumgebung"

2002 - 2008 Studied English, Spanish and Business (Angewandte Fremdsprachen und Wirtschaft) at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Graduated as "Diplomwirtschaftanglist"

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Applied corpus linguistics in foreign language teaching
• English as a lingua franca
• Formulaic language
• English & the Internet
• Educational Linguistics (http://www.uni-giessen.de/el/)

Publikationen

Kämmerer, S. & S. Saage (2009): "How learner corpora can give insights into universal/L1-specific features of learner language and why this is useful", In: Conference Proceedings "Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice", Wien 02/09, published online Vienna English Working Papers

Aktuelle Forschungsschwerpunkte

Since 8/2008 Research Assistant in the LOEWE project "Englisch als lingua franca in der Wissenschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation"
(English as a lingua franca in science and business communication)

• Multiword units in different genres of the Internet
• Eye-tracker studies & multiword units
• English & the New Media

Sonstiges

Presentations:

"Cognitive processing of formulaic sequences by native speakers and learners of English: An eye-tracking study" at the ICAME 2010 in Giessen (May 2010).

"Web ELF: Compiling an Internet lingua franca corpus - a work-in-progress report". at the "Web as Culture" conference in Giessen (July 2009).

"How learner corpora can give insights into universal/L1-specific features of learner language and why this is useful" (mit S. Kämmerer) at the "Bridging the gap between Theory and Practice" conference in Vienna (Februar 2009).