Kristin Kersten
Formerly known as Ekaterina Sudina
Formerly known as Antonio Giovanni Contarino
Formerly known as Sonja Brunsmeier
Formerly known as Christian Forche
Formerly known as Charlene Polio
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kristin Kersten is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 12. Student teachers’ and mentors’ perceptions of effective teaching techniques in the primary L2 English classroom Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school, Frisch, Stefanie and Karen Glaser (eds.), pp. 260–285 | Chapter
This chapter presents the results of a multi-site study that employed the Teacher Input Observation Scheme (TIOS, Kersten et al., 2018) in the context of the primary second language (L2) English practicum to elicit self- and other-assessments of classroom practices from 74 student teachers and… read more
2016 Assessing linguistic levels of L2 English in primary school programs Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages, Keßler, Jörg-U., Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner (eds.), pp. 163–192 | Article
This paper compares the outcomes of different studies on the L2 acquisition of English in different primary school settings within the framework of Processability Theory (PT). The results show that children from immersion (IM) programs tend to reach higher stages compared to pupils from traditional… read more
2009 Humor and interlanguage in a bilingual elementary school setting Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 187–210 | Article
This article focuses on the relationship between humor and language acquisition in a bilingual immersion setting. Data stems from picture story narrations by 18 informants taking part in an English immersion program in Germany. The analysis concentrates on instances of laughter and smiling as they… read more