Eurac Research

I am a researcher in the field of plurilingualism and plurilingual education, with a focus on the promotion of socially just forms of education through the valorisation of learners' linguistic repertoires and knowledges, particularly through translanguaging pedagogies.

Bevor ich zu Eurac Research (Bozen/Bolzano) wechselte, war ich als Postdoktorandin an der Universität Padua tätig. Dort erforschte ich, wie mehrsprachige Studierende die Vermittlung von Fachinhalten in English-Medium-Instruction‑Settings wahrnehmen und erleben.

Dal 2013 al 2015 ho lavorato come ricercatrice all'interno del progetto LEAP (Learning English for Academic Purposes), con l’obiettivo di fornire supporto al personale docente impegnato nell’English-Medium Instruction (EMI) presso l’Università di Padova. Sono stata inoltre coordinatrice del programma di supporto EMI del Centro Linguistico di Ateneo della stessa Università, e responsabile dell’Ufficio Relazioni Internazionali ed Erasmus+ della Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici CIELS (Padova).

En plus de l’éducation plurilingue et de l’EMI, mes intérêts de recherche incluent la communication en anglais comme lingua franca (ELF) ainsi que l’usage de l’échange virtuel pour le développement des compétences linguistiques et de la compétence interculturelle.

Jennifer-Carmen Frey is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research Bolzano. In her interdisciplinary work she combines computational and quantitative methods as well as corpus linguistics with educational questions to study language use in linguistically diverse contexts. Her recent work focuses on communicative competence and language awarenes of multilingual individuals both in educational settings as well as informal contexts such as social media, thereby frequently dealing with non-standard language in all its forms - be it dialects, learner varieties or social media.