Kristin Kersten
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristin Kersten plays a role.
Articles
2016 Assessing linguistic levels of L2 English in primary school programs Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages, Keßler, Jörg-U., Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner (eds.), pp. 163–192 | Article
This paper compares the outcomes of different studies on the L2 acquisition of English in different primary school settings within the framework of Processability Theory (PT). The results show that children from immersion (IM) programs tend to reach higher stages compared to pupils from traditional… read more
2009 Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 187–210 | Article
This article focuses on the relationship between humor and language acquisition in a bilingual immersion setting. Data stems from picture story narrations by 18 informants taking part in an English immersion program in Germany. The analysis concentrates on instances of laughter and smiling as they… read more