Katharina Salzmann

• 2015 PhD in German Linguistics (L-LIN/14), title: Expansionen des Deutschen und Italienischen. Eine kontrastive Korpusanalyse, University of Pisa
• 2009 Bachelor (BA) in Finnish language and literature, University of Vienna (passed with distinction)
• 2008 specialization course in German as a Foreign Language (DaF-Modul), University of Vienna
• 2007 Master (MA) in Translation and Interpretation Studies (foreign languages English and Italian), University of Vienna (passed with distinction); two semesters at the Scuola Superiore per Traduttori ed Interpreti

Academic career:

April 2022 until today: RTD-B for German Linguistics at the Dipartimento di Lettere e filosofia, Università di Trento

November 2018-March 2022: RTD-A for German Linguistics at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bolzano

May 2016-September 2018: Research fellow at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome

February-September 2018: External contract teacher German language, Università di Pisa

February 2010-October 2015: German Exchange Lecturer, Università di Pisa

Didactics at the University of Trento:

2021/22 – 2023/24 Bachelor: Lingua tedesca I (first year)

2021/22 – 2023/24 Master (LM49): Lingua tedesca I&II

2022/23 – 2023/24 Bachelor: Lingua e traduzione tedesca (third year)

2021/22 lecture for the PhD course (title: “Tedesco accademico. Le caratteristiche della lingua accademica scritta e parlata”)

Didactics at the University of Bolzano:

• German linguistics
• Language acquisition and diactics of the L1
• German as L2 in children 
• Lectures for the PhD course in pedagogics and didactics

Didactics at the University of Pisa:

• 2010-2015: German lessons (A1-C1)
• 2010-2014: course on academic writing
• modules on the following topics: prosody of German, syntactic fields, argumentative texts, textual analysis from a multilingual perspective, spoken academic German ecc.
• 2017-2018: Lingua e Traduzione: Lingua Tedesca 1 (contract teacher)
• German for students of economics

• acquisition of German as L1/L2 in young children
• grammar of spoken German, discourse markers, conversation analysis
• academic communication 
• German after English for Italian speaking students and didactics of German as a foreign language
• contrastive studies German-Italian

Partecipation in research projects:

• Member of the PRIN project “German Language in Italy: where we are and where we want to go”, Università di Trento, Università di Padova, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Università di Macerata, Università della Calabria, Università di Cagliari (PI: Prof. Federica Ricci Garotti)
• Member of the research project Wissenschaftskommunikation in Europa zwischen Nähe und Distanz – am Beispiel der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft, trilateral project Italy, France and Germany  (Prof. Marina Foschi Albert, Prof. Michel Lefèvre, Prof. Torsten Steinhoff)
• Member of the research centre LinE (Language in Education: https://www.languageineducation.eu/it/; president: Prof. Fabiana Rosi) and of the cluster LinE “La didattica delle lingue morfologicamente complesse” 
• Member of the Management Board of the Erasmus + Programme “Diversity in action: a cross-border online space for training teachers through multilingual and multicultural experiences” (DivA), University of Primorska, Libera Università di Bolzano, Pädagogische Hochschule Wien, Sveuciliste Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Università di Trento, 01.09.2022-31.08.2025
• Member of the research project “Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of German as L3” (Coordination: Prof. Federica Ricci Garotti) 
• Co-PI of the project AcuiLad: First and multilingual acquisition processes at kindergarten age: the example of the Ladin valleys in South Tyrol, RTD-project funded by the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, duration: 1.9.2019-30.6.2021, 15.700€
• AR (research fellow) in the international research project Lingua terza e intercomprensione nel contesto del plurilinguismo nella Unione europea e nel Mediterraneo, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, progetto premiale funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) (D.M. 949, 19.12.2012, Ric. Premiale 2012)
• collaboration in the international research project CoMoLTE (Consortium for Modern Language Teacher Education), Universität München (Prof. Jörg Roche) 
• collaboration in the international research project GeWiss (Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache), Universität Leipzig (Prof. Christian Fandrych)

Supervision of PhD thesis (second supervisor):

• Claudia Scochi: Die Entwicklung der produktiven Sprachkompetenzen Erzählen und Schreiben im DaZ-Unterricht im Übergang von Grund- auf Mittelschulen in Südtirol – Eine Longitudinalstudie im Kontext der Sprachdidaktik, Unterrichtsentwicklung und Sprachpolitik in Südtirol (first supervisor Prof. Dr. Katja Cantone, University of Duisburg-Essen)

Other activities:

• Peer-reviewer of the A-class journals “Studi Germanici”, „Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht“, „Annali – Sezione Germanica“ as well as for the scientific journals “KorDaF”, “Kritik” e "LEA - Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente"
• External evaluator for the VQR 2015-19 

• Member of the Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG)
• January 2023: Nomination by the Rector of the University of Trento to the scientific committee for the bilingualism exam (Province of Bolzano)
• October 2022 - until today: co-coordinator of the cycle of seminars “Conversazioni linguistiche”, University of Trento
• Member of the Laboratory of Linguistics TreLinLab, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, University di Trento 

November 2020: Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) for the second level (seconda fascia) in the SSD L-LIN/14 (German language and translation)

Presentations at scientific conferences:

• paper „‘Die Begründung meiner Wahl ist…‘ – Zur Konstruktion der wis­sen­schaftlichen Argumentation in Abschlussarbeiten italo­phoner Studierender“ at the Kolloquium Vom Wort zum Text in der DaF-Didaktik, Università di Pisa, 3 May 2011
• paper “Expansionen in der Gesprochenen-Sprache-Forschung” at the international conference Texte im Spannungsfeld von medialen Spielräumen und Norm­orientierung, Università di Pisa, 23 – 25 October 2014
• paper “Mehrsprachigkeit in der chinesischen Community in Wien” at the conference of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) Germa­nistik zwischen Tra­di­tion und Innovation, Shanghai, 23 – 31 August 2015
• poster „Expansionen als Mittel der Intensivierung im Deutschen und Italienischen“ at the Humboldt-Kolleg Intensität, Intensivierung und intensivierende Modifikation im Sprach­ver­gleich, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 5 – 6 November 2015
• paper “Text­linguistik und Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik: Die Appellfunktion in Reiseführern” at the international conference Educazione plurilingue: ricerca, didattica e politiche linguistiche, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 26 – 27 January 2017
• paper „Universitärer Mehrsprachigkeitsunterricht auf der Grundlage textlin­guis­tischer Fragestellungen“ at the Internationale Deutschlehrertagung (IDT) Brücken gestalten – mit Deutsch verbinden: Menschen – Lebenswelten – Kulturen, Freiburg/Fribourg, 31 July – 4 August 2017
• paper “Die metaphorische Verwendung ausgewählter Farbadjektive im Deutschen und Italienischen: schwarz/nero, weiß/bianco, blau/blu/azzurro” at the colloquium Cromonimi in tedesco: prospettive diacroniche e sincroniche, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 20 October 2017
• presentation of the research project “Lingua terza e intercomprensione nel contesto del plurilinguismo nella Unione Europea e nel Mediterraneo” at the seminar on plurilingualism for students and teachers of the Dutch school in Rome Crescere con più lingue, ecco il futuro, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 9 February 2018
• paper “Multilinguismo e comunicazione accademica” at the international conference Multilinguismo e traduzione. Le lingue nella genesi del testo, Università di Pisa, 18 – 20 April 2018
• paper “Phraseodidaktik mehrsprachig: Eine Unterrichtseinheit zur metaphorischen Verwendung der Farbadjektive im Sprachvergleich” at the colloquium Sprachvergleich in der mehrsprachig orientierten DaF-Didaktik, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 25 June 2018
• paper “Promuovere il multilinguismo nella comunicazione accademica: politiche linguistiche e approcci didattici” at the Humboldt-Kolleg Kosmos nel XXI secolo, Villa Vigoni, 10 – 13 April 2019
• paper “Probeklausuren in der DaF-Germanistik: Institutioneller Kontext und akademische Schreibkompetenzen“ at the International Conference Schreiben in Kontexten. Soziokulturelle Dimensionen der Textproduktion in Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Universität Wien, 2 – 3 May 2019
• paper „Fingierte Mündlichkeit in zeitgenössischen deutschen Theatertexten. Einige Überlegungen zur Wiedergabe im Italienischen“ at the AIG-Jahrestagung Übersetzen. Theorien, Praktiken und Strategien der europäischen Germanistik, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, 13 – 15 June 2019
• paper „Ein mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktischer Blick auf Korpora der gesprochenen Sprache“, Workshop interdisciplinare sul plurilinguismo, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 14 October 2019
• paper „Attribution und kindlicher Mehrsprachenerwerb“, Kolloquium Attribution und Klammerstruktur in der Grammatikschreibung, Università di Pisa, 12 November 2019
• paper “Aspetti grammaticali nei processi di acquisizione plurilingue nelle valli ladine”, Conference of the GSCP (Gruppo di studio sulla comunicazione parlata), Università del Piemonte Orientale, 5 – 7 May 2021, together with Dr. Ruth Videsott
• paper “Erzählsequenzen mehrsprachiger Kindergartenkinder in deutscher und italienischer Sprache. Eine Analyse mit besonderem Blick auf die Verben”, Online-Workshop Una, due, tre lingue….Che cosa possiamo imparare dai bambini per una didattica sull’acquisizione linguistica? for kindergarten and primary school teachers and teaching staff at the Faculty of Education, Brixen, 4 June 2021
• paper “Pragmatic markers in child language acquisition: a corpus-based study in a multilingual context”, 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, section: Contrastive corpus approaches to pragmatic markers: Variation in use, translation issues and pedagogical applications, 27 June – 2 July 2021, together with Dr. Ruth Videsott
• paper „Der Einsatz von parallelen Bilderbüchern in der bilingualen Alphabetisierung in Südtirol“, Internationale Konferenz der IVG Palermo, 26 July – 31 July 2021 (postponed from July 2020)
• paper „Mehrsprachige Kindergartenkinder erzählen Geschichten von Peppa Wutz. Daten aus den ladinischen Tälern Südtirols“, 2. Schreibklausur des Forschungskolloquiums unibz+TUD, Abbey Neustift/Novacella nearby Brixen, 21 – 25 September 2021, together with Dr. Ruth Videsott
• paper “Narrative competences in multilingual pre-school children from the Ladin valleys in South Tyrol”, Conference Storytelling as a Cultural Practice – Pedagogical and Linguistic Perspectives, Faculty of Education, Brixen, 8 – 9 October 2021, together with Dr. Ruth Videsott
• coordinator of the section “Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik” at the IDT Wien, 15-20 August 2022
• organisation of the workshop “La competenza plurilingue: dalla ricerca scientifica alla pratica didattica nell’era digitale”, LV Congresso Internazionale SLI, 8-10 September 2022, Brixen (together with Carolina Flinz and Patrizia Giuliano)
• organisation of the colloquium “Stark integrierte, schwach integrierte und desintegrierte Sprachstrukturen - (Morpho)Syntax, Prosodie, Informationsprofil”, 2 December 2022, Università di Firenze (together with Sabrina Ballestracci and Gianluca Cosentino)

Organisation of conferences, seminars etc.:

• Organizing committee of the international conference Texte im Spannungsfeld von medialen Spielräumen und Normorientierung, Università di Pisa, 23 – 25 October 2014
• Organization of the international conference Educazione plurilingue: ricerca, didattica e politiche linguistiche, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 26 – 27 January 2017
• Scientific organization of the training course Educazione plurilingue: percorsi, proposte e questioni aperte for school teachers of modern languages (in collaboration with LEND Roma), Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, February – March 2018 (third mission)
• Scientific organization of the colloquium Sprachvergleich in der mehrsprachig orientierten DaF-Didaktik, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 25 June 2018
• Scientific organization of the training course Educazione plurilingue: leggere, scrivere e confrontare for school teachers of modern languages (in collaboration with LEND Roma), Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, February – April 2019 (third mission)
• Organization of the online-workshop “Una, due, tre lingue….Che cosa possiamo imparare dai bambini per una didattica sull’acquisizione linguistica?” for kindergarten and primary school teachers and teaching staff at the Faculty of Education, 4 June 2021, together with Dr. Ruth Videsott (third mission)
• Workshop (“Dalla didattica integrata delle lingue all’uso veicolare della L2. Coordinate teoriche e pratiche didattiche”) within the EURAC project COMPASS teacher training course (Didaktische Kompetenzen in der mehrsprachigen Klasse) at the primary school C. Collodi in Pineta/Laives, 11 January 2022 (third mission)
• Scientific coordination of the section “Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik” at the Internationale Deutschlehrertagung (IDT) Wien, 15-20 August 2022
• Scientific organization of the workshop “La competenza plurilingue: dalla ricerca scientifica alla pratica didattica nell’era digitale”, LV Congresso Internazionale SLI, 8-10 September 2022, Brixen (together with Carolina Flinz and Patrizia Giuliano)
• Scientific organization of the colloquium “Stark integrierte, schwach integrierte und desintegrierte Sprachstrukturen - (Morpho)Syntax, Prosodie, Informationsprofil”,  20 – 21 April 2023, Università di Firenze (together with Sabrina Ballestracci and Gianluca Cosentino)
• Scientific committee of the International Conference “DaF heute zwischen Anwendung und Empirie”, University of Trento, 26 – 28 October 2023 (together with Federica Ricci Garotti and other colleagues)
• Scientific committee of the CIRSIL Conference “La consapevolezza metalinguistica in didattica nel corso dei secoli. Vecchi e nuovi approcci a confronto”, Università di Trento, 17-19 October 2024 

Assignments and commissions at the Dipartimento di lettere e filosofia:

• Member of the PhD course  in “Forme del testo e dello scambio culturale”
• Responsible for the German language exercises (from 2022), including the following tasks: programming of language courses, revision of the model for German tests, recognition of language certificates
• Revision of the German tests delivered at the Language Center CLA (2022-2023)
• Member of the Commission for the programming of language exercises DLF-CLA (spring 2024) 
• Member of the Commission for the new MA course LM 38 (spring 2024) 
• Responsible for the Erasmus agreements with the universities of Innsbruck and Klagenfurt

Teacher training:

• Lesson for the Master in “Didattica della lingua tedesca come LS e L2”, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, 23 September 2023,  title of the lesson „Die Korrektur und Bewertung schriftlicher und mündlicher Texte“