Lisa

Klasen

Lisa Klasen graduated from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a Master degree in German Studies in Cultural Comparison, Linguistics. During her studies she focused on language use, acquisition and comparison and language and cognition. Since April 2019, she is a doctoral researcher in the GRASP-project, in which she analyses, together with Katinka Mangelschots, the Effects of Grammatical Reflection on Spelling among multilingual pupils. The overall aim of the current project GRASP is to investigate how explicit teaching of grammatical reflection enhances the spelling skills of grade 4 pupils in relation to orthographic syntactic markers that are not orally expressed, such as the capitalisation of nouns in German and the plural markers in French.

The PI of the project is Constanze Weth and Lisa Klasen focuses on the French language.

Research interests

Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

Education

Multilingualism

Spelling Acquisition

Language Production

Language and Cognition

Latest content Lisa Klasen took part in

Humanities

Using grammatical reflection to get a grasp on syntactic orthographic markers

Although the Latin script focusses on phonological representation, many orthographic forms
in French and German refer to syntactic, grammatical structures. These syntactic markers are not represented in phonology. Therefore, learners must acquire knowledge about these silent syntactic structures in order to spell correctly.
GRASP, a research project of the Institute for Research on Multilingualism from the University of Luxembourg investigates how explicit teaching of grammatical reflection enhances the spelling skills of grade 4 pupils in relation to orthographic syntactic markers that are not orally expressed.