Teaser: Current Projects

ACCELS - Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies

Pursuing the empirical study of literary reception in flesh-and-blood readers, the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies (ACCELS) presents innovative research in the Humanities. For more information, please visit the following webpage: https://www.accels.rwth-aachen.de

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T-REX

This mixed-method project sheds further light on the textual triggers of experientiality and their interaction with the readers’ cognitive systems through the combination of literary hermeneutic methods with digital processing of large amounts of rich empirical data.

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Speak Up!

All you need to know about this rapidly growing university/school co-operation established in 2012 to provide a rich SLA research field and hands-on teaching practice for student teachers in the earliest years of training.

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Curriculum 4.0

Lehrkräfte für die digitale Gesellschaft – Medienkompetenzentwicklung im Lehramt am Beispiel des Studienfachs Englisch

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ACCELS - Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies

Pursuing the empirical study of literary reception in flesh-and-blood readers, the Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies (ACCELS) presents innovative research in the Humanities. Literary reception offers routes into investigating the complex interactions between cognitive and emotional factors of comprehension, as well as the relationship between general mental dispositions and culturally specific meaning. ACCELS aims to contribute to this field of research.

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Completed Projects

Ends and Endings in Literature and Culture

Das gemeinsame Forschungsprojekt von Anglisten der RWTH und Wissenschaftlern der University of St Andrews untersucht aus breit angelegter Perspektive die Strukturen von Schlüssen in Literatur und Kultur.

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Eye-tracking screen displaying a visualization of recorded eye-movements © Copyright: Julia Vaessen

Translation Research in Corpora, Keystroke Logging and Eye Tracking

Using a combination of corpus and experimental data the project examines different forms of complexity in the translation process and product.

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Discourses of Mobility - Mobility of Discourse

This collection of essays has a double focus: On the one hand, it consists of analyses of the metaphorical appropriation of technological inventions in literary discourse. How, it is asked, does literature ...

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