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Dr. Karin Stoklasa – Curriculum Vitae

Academic training and degrees
04/2015 – 04/2021 Ph.D. in English Linguistics; dissertation on the topic of L2 English prosody
10/2012 – 01/2015 Master of Arts “Language Technology and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching”, thesis on L2 English prosody
10/2008 – 07/2012 Bachelor of Arts “Modern Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching”, thesis on Sri Lankan English

Academic employment
Since 06/2022 Postdoc in English Linguistics, Ruhr University Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christiane Meierkord
Since 01/2019 Adjunct Assistant Professor: German language instructor at Ramstein Air Base, Germany University of Maryland Global Campus Europe, Rhineland-Palatinate
04/2015 – 02/2022 Research Assistant in English Linguistics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hesse, at the chair of Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee & Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber
10/2011 – 03/2015 Student Assistant in English Linguistics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hesse, at the chair of Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee & Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber, Corpus Linguistic Help and International Corpus of English – Sri Lanka Project

Research interests
  • Military Speech & Dialect Leveling
  • (Learner) Corpus Linguistics
  • Quantitative Linguistics
  • Prosody and Spoken English
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Applied/Educational Linguistics
  • Forensic Linguistics

Major completed projects
  • Transforming European Learner Language into Learning Opportunities (TELL-OP), in collaboration with the University of Murcia, Université catholique de Louvain, Meliksah University, Kayseri & Bath Spa University from 2015-2017 (function: project co-coordinator)
  • Integrating the Old Bailey Corpus into the CLARIN-D infrastructure, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research from 2015-2016 (function: project co-coordinator)
  • (Ongoing) International Corpus of English: ICE-Sri Lanka (function: student assistant)

Teaching at RUB, JLU, and UMGC
Term Title Format
Summer Semester 2022 Forensic Linguistics (RUB) Residence
  Elementary German I (UMGC) Residence
Winter Semester 2021/22 Elementary German I (UMGC) Online
  Forensic Linguistics (JLU) Online
  Cognitive Linguistics (JLU) Online
  Psycholinguistics (JLU) Online
  Lexicology (JLU) Online
  Methods in Cultural, Literary and Linguistic Studies (with L. Bauer) (JLU) Online
Summer Semester 2021 Elementary German II (UMGC) Online
  Elementary German I (UMGC) Online
  Analyzing Language Structures Online
  Methods in Cultural, Literary and Linguistic Studies (with M. Spies) (JLU) Online
  Lexicology I (JLU) Online
  Lexicology II (JLU) Online
Winter Semester 2020/21 Psycholinguistics I (JLU) Online
  Psycholinguistics II (JLU) Online
Summer Semester 2020 Elementary German I (UMGC) Online
  Forensic Linguistics (JLU) Online
  Semantics (JLU) Online
  Morphology and Word Formation I (JLU) Online
  Morphology and Word Formation II (JLU) Online
  Introduction to English Linguistics (JLU) Online
Winter Semester 2019/20 Advanced German II (UMGC) Residence
  Advanced German I (UMGC) Residence
  Text Linguistics (JLU) Residence
Summer Semester 2019 Intermediate German II (UMGC) Residence
  Intermediate German I (UMGC) Residence
  Applied Linguistics (JLU) Residence
  Elementary German II (UMGC) Residence
  Elementary German I (UMGC) Residence
Winter Semester 2018/19 Elementary German I (UMGC) Residence
  Second Language Acquisition (JLU) Residence
  Varieties of English: America Residence
  Syntax (JLU) Residence
Summer Semester 2018 Applied Linguistics (JLU) Residence
  Varieties of English around the World (JLU) Residence
  Sociolinguistics (JLU) Residence
Winter Semester 2017/18 Introduction to English Linguistics (JLU) Residence
Summer Semester 2017 OER Course (JLU) Online
  Corpus Linguistics (JLU) Residence
Winter Semester 2016/17 Forensic Linguistics (JLU) Residence
Summer Semester 2016 Sociolinguistics (JLU) Residence
Winter Semester 2015/16 Contrastive Linguistics (JLU) Residence
Summer Semester 2015 Intonation (JLU) Residence
Winter Semester 2014/15 Corpus-linguistic Tutorials (JLU) Residence
Summer Semester 2014 Corpus-linguistic Tutorials (JLU) Residence

Conferences and workshops

(Co)-organized Conferences/Workshops
2022 “Digital tools for building and analyzing spoken corpora: Moving beyond lexicogrammar to pronunciation and fluency”, 15th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2022, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, 8-11 September 2022 (with Ideé Edalatishams, Romy Ghanem, Amanda Huensch, and Shelley Staples)
2017 “Fortbildung zu OERs für den Fremdsprachenunterricht für Lehrkräfte.” Oldenburg, Deutschland, 09 December 2017 (function: instructor).
  “Online training module for language professionals on OERs: Germany”, Online training, 16 January – 17 February 2017 (function: instructor).
2016 12th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC 12), Justus Liebig University Giessen, 20-23 July 2016 (function: member of the organizing committee).

Presentations and Guest Lectures
2022 “F0 range in L2 discourse: A corpus-based contrastive interlanguage analysis”, ICAME43, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 27-30 July 2022.
  “Integrating Fluency and Prosody into Multidimensional Analysis: Exploring the Multidimensional Nature of Spoken Learner Language”, 15th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2022, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, 8-11 September 2022 (with Shelley Staples).
  “The phonetic and phonological shape of HRTs and their pragmatic functions in L2 discourse: A corpus-based study”, 15th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2022, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, 8-11 September 2022.
  “F0 range in L2 discourse as evidence for the existence of a prosody interlanguage system”, 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference 2022, University of Padua at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, Padua, Italy, 22-24 September 2022.
2021 “Syntactic segmentation of spoken corpus data: What prosody can contribute”, ICAME42 2021, TU Dortmund University, Germany, 18-21 August 2021 (with Sandra Götz and Kathrin Kircili).
  “Challenges and Solutions for Working with Spoken Corpora”, Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021, University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, Ireland, 13-16 July (with Ideé Edalatishams, Romy Ghanem, Amanda Huensch, and Shelley Staples).
2019 “English prosody of advanced learners of English – a contrastive interlanguage analysis”, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) 2019, Flagstaff (Arizona), USA, 12-14 September 2019.
  “The effectiveness of digital tools in the analysis of spoken discourse: towards a protocol for pronunciation corpora”, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) 2019, Flagstaff (Arizona), USA, 12-14 September 2019. (with Romy Ghanem, Shelley Staples, Amanda Huensch, Ideé Edalatishams)
  “English Prosody of Advanced Czech, German and Spanish learners”, linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Osnabrück, 08 January 2019.
2018 “L2 Intonation of Advanced Learners of English”, 12th InternationalConferenceon Native and Non-native Accents of English (Accents 2018), Łódź, Poland, 29 November to 01 December 2018.
  “English Prosody of Advanced Learners: Project Update”, Nachwuchstagung, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, 16 November 2018. 
  “Using prosodically annotated corpora for language teaching and learning”, 14th Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), Atlanta, USA, 20-22 September 2018.
  “The Perception-Production Link in Intonation: Evidence from German Learners of English”, Speech Prosody 2018, Poznan, Poland, 13-16 June 2018 (with Robert Fuchs, Toby Hudson, Jane Setter, and  Peggy Mok).
  “English Prosody of Advanced Learners” guest lecture, Trier University, Germany, 16 January 2018.
2017 “English Prosody of Advanced Learners: A Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis with Language-Pedagogical Implications”, 4th Learner Corpus Research (LCR 4), Bolzano, Italy, 5-7 October 2017.
  “The perception of English Intonation Patterns by German L2 speakers of English”,  Interspeech Conference 2017, Stockholm University, Sweden, 20-24 August 2017 (with Robert Fuchs, Jane Setter, and Peggy Mok)
2016 “Prosodic idiolect across languages: Do we use the same tunes in different languages?” Workshop Second Language Prosody, Graz, Austria, 18-19 November 2016.
  “(Automatic) annotation of prosodic material: An evaluation of various annotation systems and tools”, American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) and Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL) conference, Iowa State University (Ames, IA), 16-18 September 2016.
  “Keep out of reach of children! Introducing the Corpus of Product Information (CoPI) and its potential for corpus-based genre teaching”, American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) and Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL) conference, Iowa State University (Ames, IA), 16-18 September 2016 (with Sandra Götz).
  “Pitch Patterns of Advanced German and Spanish Learners of English”, Aix Summer School on Prosody Methods in Prosody and Intonation Research: Data, Theories, Transcription, Aix-en-Provence, France, 6-9 September 2016.
  “The Prosodic Annotation of Spontaneous Speech”, Aix Summer School on Prosody Methods in Prosody and Intonation Research: Data, Theories, Transcription, Aix-en-Provence, France, 6-9, September 2016 (with Stefanie Hehner & Kathrin Kircili).
  “English intonation of advanced learners of English – A Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis”, 12th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC 12), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 20-23 July 2016.
  “English Prosody of Advanced Learners”, Nachwuchstagung, Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, July 2016.
2015 “Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis of pitch movement: A corpus-based study of advanced German and Spanish Learners of English”, 3rd Learner Corpus Research (LCR 3), Radbound University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10-13 September 2015.
  “Prosodic Annotation of Selected Spontaneous Speech Samples of the LINDSEI Corpus”, 3rd Learner Corpus Research (LCR 3), Radbound University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10-13 September 2015.
  “Prosodic practice through mobile devices: An on-going project based on learner corpus data”, 3rd Learner Corpus Research (LCR 3), Radbound University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10-13 September 2015.