Dr. Carol Jaensch

Ph.D. in Linguistics (October 2008)

Department of Language and Linguistics

Contact: cjaens at essex.ac.uk

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~cjaens

Thesis title: The role of the L1 and the L2 in the L3 acquisition of German DP features.

Supervisor: Prof. Roger Hawkins

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Teaching Experience

Memberships

Departmental Service

Publications

Conferences and Seminars

Personal

Teaching experience:

German Lecturer, University of Essex, October 2008 - current

	Initial German
	Elementary German
	Intensive Initial German
	Intermediate German
	Advanced German

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Essex, October 2007 - June 2008

Foundations of Psycholinguistics, LG103

Group leader, First Steps Training for new PhD students - October 2007

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Essex, October 2006 - June 2007:

Foundations of Psycholinguistics, LG103

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Essex, October 2005 - June 2006:

	Intensive Initial German
	Intermediate German

Memberships:

	European Second Language Association (EUROSLA)
	Society for Germanic Linguistics
	British Association for Applied Linguistics
	Linguistics Association of Great Britain
	International Association of Multilingualism
	Current member of the Second Language Acquisition Research Group (SLARG).

Departmental Service

	2008 Co-Editor of Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics (EGSPLL volume 10)
	2007/2008 Student member of the Staff-Student Liaison Committee for Research students
	2007/2008 Research Student member of the Departmental Meeting
	2007 Co-Editor of Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics (EGSPLL volume 9)
	2007 Student review member for the Language & Linguistics Postgraduate Periodic Review

2006 Co-Editor of Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics (EGSPLL volume 8)

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Publications

2010:

Jaensch, Carol. (to appear) "L3 Acquisition of German adjectival inflection - a generative account". In Second Language Research (special edition).

2009:

Jaensch, Carol. L3 acquisition of the German determiner phrase: The role of L1 Japanese and L2 English. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.

Jaensch, Carol. "L3 enhanced feature sensitivity as a result of higher proficiency in the L2". In Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar, Leung, Yan-kit, Ingrid (ed.), Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 115-143.

Jaensch, Carol. "Article choice and article omission in the L3 German of native speakers of Japanese with L2 English". In Second language acquisition of articles: empirical findings and theoretical implications, García-Mayo, María del Pilar and Roger Hawkins (eds.), LALD series: John Benjamins.

Jaensch, Carol and Sarko Ghisseh. "Sources of fluctuation in article choice in English and German by Syrian Arabic and Japanese native speakers" In EUROSLA Yearbook 2009, Roberts, Leah, Daniel Véronique, Anna-Carin Nilson and Marion Tellier (eds.), Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2008:

Jaensch, Carol. "L3 Acquisition of articles in German by native Japanese speakers". In Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 2007, Slabakova Roumyana, Jason Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky, Elena Gavruseva (eds.), Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press, 81-89.

Jaensch, Carol. "Defective adjectival inflection in non-native German: prosodic transfer or missing surface inflection?" In EUROSLA Yearbook 2008, Roberts, Leah, Florence Myles and Annabelle David (eds.) , Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2007:

Jaensch, Carol. "The effects of L2 proficiency on the acquisition of new morpho-syntactic features in an L3". Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics, volume 9 (EGSPLL volume 9)

2006:

Hawkins, Roger, Saleh Al-Eid, Ibrahim Almahboob, Panos Athanasopoulos, Rangsiya Chaengchenkit, James Hu, Mohammad Rezai, Carol Jaensch, Yunju Jeon, Amy Jiang, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung, Keiko Matsunaga, Martha Ortega, Ghisseh Sarko, Neal Snape and Kalinka Velasco-Zárate. “Accounting for English article interpretation by L2 speakers”. In EUROSLA Yearbook 6, Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović (eds.), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 7–25.

2005:

Jaensch, Carol. "UG and Poverty of the Stimulus: Topic Deletion Evidence from L2 learners of German". Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics, volume 7 (EGSPLL volume 7)

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Conferences and Seminars

2009

Looking At Language Acquisition X, Cambridge University, UK.

The effect of task: testing proposals for L1 and L2 influence in L3 German

ISB7 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The limitations of English L2 influence on L3 acquisition of German articles by Japanese
speakers (oral presentation).

EUROSLA 19 2009, Cork, Ireland.

Testing proposals for L1/L2 influence in L3 acquisition: the effect of task

2008

AILA 2008 (15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics), Essen, Germany.

L3 Acquisition of German by native Japanese speakers - evidence of L2 influence? (oral presentation).

EUROSLA 18 2008, Aix-en- Provence, France.

Jaensch, Carol. L3 acquisition of grammatical gender – can L2 English really help? (poster presentation).

Jaensch, Carol and Sarko, Ghisseh. Article Acquisition in English and German by Japanese and Syrian native speakers. (oral presentation).

2007

EUROSLA 17 2007, Newcastle, UK.

L3 Acquisition of German adjective declension by L1 Japanese speakers (oral presentation).

L3 Conference 2007, Stirling, UK.

L3 Acquisition of German DP features by L1 Japanese speakers (oral presentation).

ISB6 2007, Hamburg, Germany.

L3 Acquisition of German DP features by L1 Japanese speakers (oral presentation).

GASLA 2007, Iowa, USA.

L3 Acquisition of articles in German by L1 Japanese speakers (poster presentation).

J-SLA 2007, Shizuoka, Japan.

L3 Acquisition of German adjective declension by L1 Japanese speakers (poster presentation).

Looking At Language Acquisition VIII, Cambridge University, UK. 2007

L3 Acquisition of German adjective declension by L1 Japanese speakers (oral presentation).

CamLing 2007, Cambridge University, UK.

L3 Acquisition of articles in German by native Japanese speakers (oral presentation).

2006

EUROSLA 16 2006, Antalya, Turkey

L3 Acquisition of German DP features by L1 Japanese speakers - evidence of L2 influence (poster presentation).

Essex Graduate Conference in Linguistics XI (formerly GSPD), Essex University, UK. 2006

L3 Acquisition of German DP features by L1 Japanese speakers - evidence of L2 influence (oral presentation).

Looking At Language Acquisition VII, Cambridge University, UK. 2006

L3 Acquisition of German DP features by L1 Japanese speakers - evidence of L2 influence (oral presentation).

LangUE 2006, Essex University, UK.

L3 Acquisition of German DP features by L1 Japanese speakers - evidence of L2 influence (poster presentation).

Personal

I was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, but moved 'south' to Berkshire, as a child. At 20 I moved to Munich, where I lived for nearly 14 years, during which time I married Wolfgang (a true Bavarian!) and gave birth to two children, Tony and Jessica (she prefers to be called Jess!), who are both bilingual. We now live in sunny Clacton with one dog, a Jack Russell Terrier, called Alfie; two cockatiels, Sassy and Bobby; and one goldfish, Babe!

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