Thomas Wagner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Wagner is involved.
Articles
2026 Tapping into the educational potential of pop songs in foreign language teaching through action research Journal of Language and Pop Culture 2:1, pp. 83–106 | Article
This paper reports a two-year action research project about the potential literary and linguistic value of pop songs in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching. Considering pop songs as creative texts of cultural, social, and literary significance, the project aimed to develop and examine a… read more
2025 Effects of input frequency and microvariation on knowledge of negative inversion in L2 English Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:5, pp. 718–744 | Article
The present study investigates whether L2 learners of English distinguish between (un)grammatical word orders after fronted negative adverbials to identify negative inversion. Previous research on transfer and resetting of verb second (V2) in L1 German–L2 English is extended to explore residual… read more
2022 A tripod for a solid ground: A comment on Gilquin 2022 Pedagogical Linguistics 3:2, pp. 174–180 | Commentary