last update: 04/08/05

Forschungsinteressen/Research interests

▪       Korpuslinguistik/Corpus linguistics

▪       Linguistik und Sprachvermittlung/Linguistics and language teaching

▪       Phraseologie; Interface Lexik-Grammatik/Phraseology; lexical grammar

▪       Evaluation im akademischen Diskurs/Evaluation in academic discourse

Laufende Projekte/Ongoing projects

▪       Ausdrücke von Evaluation in linguistischen Buchrezensionen/Expressions of evaluative meaning in the language of linguistic book reviews

▪  Kompilation des Buchrezensionskorpus "BRILC" (Book Reviews In Linguistics Corpus)/Compilation of BRILC, a corpus of linguistic book reviews  

▪       "Corpus and Coursebook: Towards a new General Service List of English words in combination" - lexikalische Analyse eines Englisch-Lehrwerkkorpus im Vergleich zum natürlichen Sprachgebrauch/"Corpus and Coursebook: Towards a new General Service List of English words in combination" - a lexical analysis of an EFL textbook corpus in comparison with "used" spoken English

▪   Kompilation des LernerInnenkorpus "CHALC" (Cologne-Hanover Advanced Learners' Corpus)/Compilation of CHALC, a corpus of student essays and term papers  

Abgeschlossene Projekte/Completed projects

▪   Pilotstudie zur Verwendung negativer Evaluationsausdrücke durch Autorinnen und Autoren linguistischer Buchrezensionen/Pilot study on negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors; (cf. publications)

▪   Korpusgesteuerte Studie zum Progressive im gesprochenen Englisch und im 'Schulenglisch' (Dissertation)/Corpus-driven study on progressives in spoken English and 'school' English (PhD thesis); Titel/Title: Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy. A Corpus-driven Approach to English Progressive Forms, their Functions, Contexts, and Didactics (cf. publications)

▪    Kompilation des Lehrwerkkorpus "GEFL TC" (German English as a Foreign Language Textbook Corpus)/Compilation of GEFL TC, a corpus of spoken-type EFL textbook texts; information on this corpus can be found in

     - Römer, Ute. 2004. Comparing Real and Ideal Language Learner Input: The Use of an EFL Textbook Corpus in Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching. In: Aston, Guy, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart (eds.). Corpora and Language Learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 151-168. book info; abstract, and in

    - Römer, Ute. 2005. Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy. A Corpus-driven Approach to English Progressive Forms, Functions, Contexts and Didactics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

▪       Der Gebrauch von Modalverben im gesprochenen britischen Englisch und ihre Vermittlung im Englischunterricht/The use of modal verbs in spoken British English and their presentation in EFL teaching materials (cf. publications)