Leonie Twente has been a research assistant with teaching duties at the Institute for German Language and Literature II (Prof. Dr. Marx) since October 2022. She started her doctoral studies in January 2023, working on secondary analyses on the language development of newly immigrated children and adolescents. In January 2023, she also joined the project "Language Competencies of Newly Immigrated Pupils in Regular Classes" in the Department of Language and Learning. Previously, she was as a research assistant in the project What works?, where she was involved, among other things, in the production of a systematic review and synthesis without meta-analysis.
She studied Linguistics & Phonetics and Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne and graduated with a Master of Arts in Linguistics. From 2020 to 2021, she also completed a certificate program "New Immigrants in Adult Education" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As an freelance lecturer, she hosts trainings, for example for LESEMENTOR Köln.
Research
Research interests: first and additional language development, child-directed language, survey research, evidence synthesis: systematic reviews, scoping reviews
Projects:
Language Skills of Newly Immigrated Students in Mainstream Education (2021-2024, see description)
The effectiveness of integrated strategies in classrooms: A systematic review (see description)
since 01/2023 research associate at the Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education, Department Language and Learning
since 10/2022 research associate at the Department of German Language and Literature II (Prof. Dr. Marx), University of Colgone
since 10/2021 research associate at the Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education, Department Language and Education System
07/2022-10/2022 research associate in the project Schule macht Stark at the Technical University Chemnitz (Prof. Krelle)
09/2020-09/2021 certificate program Newly Arrived Immigrants in Adult Education (University Duisburg-Essen), term paper: Intendierte und nicht-intendierte Effekte der Nutzung mehrsprachiger Ressourcen in einem Integrationskurs für Erwachsene: Perspektiven der Lehrkraft und der Lernenden.
10/2019-03/2022 Master of Arts in Linguistics (University of Cologne), thesis: Characteristics of German child-directed speech during book sharing and play activities in a standardized naturalistic setting.
01/2018-09/2021 research assistant at the Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education, Department Language and Education System
11/2016-12/2017 student assistant at the Department of Linguistics (University of Cologne)
10/2015-09/2019 Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics & Phonetics and Digital Humanities (University of Cologne), thesis: Der Erwerb von Possessivkonstruktionen bei deutschsprachigen Kindern. Eine empirische Studie)
Teaching
Summer semester 2024
Language Education in (Subject) Teaching for Newly Immigrated Students
Winter semester 2023/24
Children’s university workshop on multilingualism (together with Maike Beyer)
Winter semester 2023/24
Understanding and appraising current research on newcomers in school (MA seminar for students in teacher training and Intercultural communication and education studies)
Summer semester 2023
Language development in multilingual contexts (BA seminar)
workshop "Questionnaires: development and evaluation'' held in the context of the international block seminar for graduate students ("'Multilingualism' as a construct: A thorn in the side of linguistic research" led by Prof. Dr. Nicole Marx)
Winter semester 2022/23
Language development in children and adolescents (BA seminar)
Publications, Presentations and Poster Presentations
An up-to-date collection of my publications and presentations is found on my zotero profile.
Other
Functions in committees
since April 1st, 2023: deputy member of the Gender Equality Committee at the University of Cologne
Membership in Associations
Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS)
EuroSLA
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft e. V.
mercator.uni-koeln.de