Yela Schauwecker

Dr. Yela Schauwecker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Linguistics and Romance Studies, where she leads the project "Research Literacy of Teachers" (ReaLiTea) and collaborates with the Institute for Educational Analysis Baden-Württemberg (IBBW). Her office is located at Keplerstrasse 17, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany.

Education

• 2000: Magister Artium in Romance Linguistics and Classical Philology (Latin), Heidelberg University
• 2004: PhD in Romance Linguistics, Heidelberg University
• 2007: Second State Examination in French and Latin
• 2022: Habilitation in Linguistics, University of Stuttgart

Research Focus

Her interdisciplinary research spans:

• Foreign language education: Research-based didactics for Romance languages/Latin, learner self-evaluation, and differentiated instruction
• Computational linguistics: Automation of language analysis and historical corpus annotation
• Historical lexicography: Medieval specialized texts, semantics, and editions (botany/astronomy)

Publication Trends

Schauwecker's recent work demonstrates strong emphasis on quantitative approaches to historical language contact (particularly Anglo-French), corpus linguistics, and syntactic evolution. Her publications frequently intersect medieval philology with computational methods, examining lexical borrowing, register formation, and pedagogical applications in language teaching.

Awards

• DAAD/Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Postdoc Fellowship (2010)

Projects & Advising

She currently directs the ReaLiTea project at Zentrum für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Baden-Württemberg. Previous roles include leading the "Forschungsbasierte Fremdsprachendidaktik" project and contributing to ANR Crealscience (medieval scientific dictionary) and BASICS (contact linguistics).