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Renato Pavlekovic

Pavlekovic, R., & Roehr-Brackin, K. (in press). Finding the tipping point: Proficiency as a moderator of aptitude in L2 learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Roehr-Brackin, K., Baranowska, K., Pavlekovic, R., & Scheffler, P. (2026). Inductive instruction at beginner level: The contribution of metalinguistic awareness at the earliest stages of adult L2 learning. Language Awareness, 34(4), 886–908.

Roehr-Brackin, K., & Pavlekovic, R. (2025). Language learning aptitude as a predictor of late-life L2 learning at beginner level. Language Teaching Research.

Roehr-Brackin, K., Baranowska, K., Pavlekovic, R., & Scheffler, P. (2024). The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction. The Modern Language Journal, 108(4), 815–845.

Pavlekovic, R., & Roehr-Brackin, K. (2024). Aptitude for explicit and implicit learning. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 8(1), 1–17.

Roehr-Brackin, K., Loaiza, V., & Pavlekovic, R. (2023). Language learning aptitude in older adults. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 7(1), 1–15.

Review of the Foreign Language Concept for Primary and Secondary Schools in Basel-Landschaft

Project management
Thomas Studer, Moritz Sommet
Team
Alejandro Santano Suárez

Lou Noah Odermatt

The Institute of multilingualism compiled a structured bibliography on the characteristics of foreign language teaching in Swiss schools for the project ‘Review of the Foreign Language Concept in Primary and Secondary Schools in Basel-Landschaft’. In particular, publications from 2011–2025 were considered, focusing on the following aspects of foreign language teaching:

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Documenter et Tester l’Apprentissage Adaptatif à L'École en FRançais

(DocTA2LE-FR)
Project management
Berthele Raphael

Thierry Geoffre, Lionel Alvarez

Team
Inès Plessis-Ouzariah

Karim Aebischer, Asheesh Gulati, Aous Karoui, Trystan Geoffre

Partenaires : Nathalie Dherbey-Chapuis, Isabelle Gauvin, Philippe Genoud, Nathalie Guin, Marie Lefevre, Mireille Rodi

The increased linguistic and cultural diversity of pupils (OECD, 2018) and the implementation of an inclusive education system (Federal Constitution, Art. 2, para. 3, 8 para. 1 and 2) are leading to greater heterogeneity in mainstream primary school classes.

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Influence of oral use of chunks on grammar development in French as a second language

Project management
Nathalie Dherbey Chapuis, Anita Thomas
Team

Diane André Afonso

This project, co-funded by the Empiris Foundation, aims to describe the evolution of the use of five common verbs in French as a second language by young migrant students. Our analyses focus on the Corpus FrOMi, which brings together recordings of spontaneous oral productions by 10 beginner students in French on their first day of school over a period of four academic years.

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Inès Plessis-Ouzariah

  • Plessis-Ouzariah, I., Cung, H. Q., Geoffre, T., Karoui, A., & Alvarez, L. (2025). Investigating Pupils’ Motivation with a Reward-Driven Feature in a Game-Based Learning Environment. European Conference on Games Based Learning, 19(2), 706–715. https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.19.2.4217
  • Plessis-Ouzariah, I., & Geoffre, T. (2025, 10–13 juin). Utiliser un lexique visuel pour mieux accéder à l’activité au sein d’un EIAH. Communications de la 12ᵉ conférence sur les Environnements Informatiques pour l’Apprentissage Humain, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France. https://eiah2025.sciencesconf.org/data/EIAH_2025_paper_49.pdf
  • Plessis-Ouzariah, I. (2024). Apprentissage et ludification adaptatifs. Dans RJC EIAH. https://hal.science/hal-04682680
  • Plessis-Ouzariah, I. & Geoffre, T. (2025, sous presse). Using a digital visual dictionary to support reading comprehension: A single-case study with French-as-a-Second Language learners in primary school. In Y. Choubsaz et al. (Eds.), Advancing CALL: New research agendas – EUROCALL 2025 Short Papers.https://doi.org/10.4995/EuroCALL2025.2025.xxxxx
  • Plessis-Ouzariah, I., Cung, H. Q., Geoffre, T., Karoui, A., & Alvarez, L. (2025). Investigating Pupils’ Motivation with a Reward-Driven Feature in a Game-Based Learning Environment. European Conference On Games Based Learning, 19(2), 706-715. https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.19.2.4217

Evaluation of German as a second language (GSL) instruction

Project management
Malgorzata Barras, Thomas Studer
Team
Lisa Singh
This study evaluates GSL instruction at public schools in the cities of Winterthur and Zurich with the aim of identifying the conditions that lead to successful learning. The following lines of inquiry are foregrounded: 

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Language and History: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Project management
Zorana Sokolovska
This project intends to investigate the relationship between language and history from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, historical sociolinguistics, language teaching, and history. It focuses in particular on “historic and socially situated moments” to which the description and analysis of language practices must be anchored.

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National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language, Phase 2

Project management
Raphael Berthele
Language is what distinguishes human beings from all other species. However, its evolutionary origins remain poorly understood. In addition, today's communicative environment is being reshaped by digitisation and artificial intelligence: the way we learn and use language has changed, raising the question of how language might develop in the future.

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