Katharina Salzmann

Assistant professor

Department of Humanities


Via Tommaso Gar, 14 - 38122 Trento
katharina.salzmann[at]unitn [dot] it
Education
  • 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 “Magister” 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 and teaching activities

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

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

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

Research interests
  • (multilingual) language acquisition in young children
  • German after English for Italian speaking students
  • academic communication and didactics of academic German
  • grammar of spoken German (also in teaching DaF)
  • contrastive studies German-Italian
Research work
  • 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 GeWiss (Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache), Universität Leipzig (Prof. Christian Fandrych)
Memberships in societies and scientific committees
  • Member of the Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG)
Conferences and lectures
  • 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)
Other work

Organisation of conferences, seminars etc. 

  • Organization of the international conference Educazione plurilingue: ricerca, didattica e politiche linguistiche, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 26 – 27 January 2017
  • 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)
  • Organization of the colloquium Sprachvergleich in der mehrsprachig orientierten DaF-Didaktik, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome, 25 June 2018
  • 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)

 

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)