Constanze Weth
Biographic Data
| ID | 881790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constanze Weth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constanze |
| FAMILY NAME | Weth |
| SIGNATURE | WETH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Luxembourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4290-6444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Early Childcare Attendance, Home Language, and Listening Comprehension
Research Findings: Research indicates that early childcare is beneficial for children’s language skills. Children from minority home language groups especially benefit from an early start. In this study, we investigated the association between early childcare attendance (ages 0 to 4 years) and listening comprehension in the language of instruction in multilingual Luxembourg. In particular, we analyzed whether this association was moderated by hom…
Writing/reading interface
Syntactic markers and syntactic spelling
In this paper, we first summarize the results of studies that have investigated the acquisition, reading, and spelling of noun phrases (NPs) in German and French. Then, we present the assumptions made in those studies. In the main part of the paper, we provide a detailed comparison of German and French noun phrases. There are numerous differences that have never been discussed in this context before; for example, the behavior of articles in Germa…
Effects of parallel syntactic training in French plural spelling and German noun capitalization
French plural markers and German noun capitalization encode syntactic information. Both syntactic markers present the syntactic information needed reliably and saliently, and both are unrelated to phonology. A main difference between both is that French plural spelling is part of inflection morphology and encodes the plural morphemes in written French. German noun capitalization is not a morpheme or a grapheme, but an allograph licensed in a part…
Spelling patterns of plural marking and learning trajectories in French taught as a foreign language
Although French plural spelling has been studied extensively, the complexity of factors affecting the learning of French plural spelling are not yet fully explained, namely on the level of adjectival and verbal plural. This study investigates spelling profiles of French plural markers of 228 multilingual grade 5 pupils with French taught as a foreign language. Three analyses on the learner performances of plural spelling in nouns, verbs and pre- …
The adaptation of Main to Luxembourgish
This paper describes the addition of Luxembourgish to the language versions of MAIN, the adaption process and the use of MAIN in Luxembourg. A short description of Luxembourg’s multilingual society and trilingual school system as well as an overview of selected morphosyntactic and syntactic features of Luxembourgish introduce the Luxembourgish version of MAIN
Literacies in contact
Research on language contact has so far mainly focused on oral situations, although standardization and language ideologies always have an important influence on multilingualism in both its written and its spoken form. This raises the question of which theoretical models are most suitable for the description of written language contact. The present paper recalls linguistic investigations of written language. Some research on multilingual writing …
Foreign schriftdenken in ausbau languages
The concept of schriftdenken describes how the knowledge of a writing system in use guides the creation of a writing system for a yet to be standardized language. Trubetzkoy described this effect with reference to the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet in the 9th century with Greek as the reference writing system. This paper demonstrates schriftdenken and measures to increase orthographic differences in two writing systems with a relatively yo…
Orthographic competence among multilingual school children
This paper presents children's writing in their vernacular family language, Moroccan Arabic. It first provides some background to the family and school literacies of nine-year-old children of Moroccan Arabic (MA) background growing up in France with French literacy practices at school and Written Arabic literacy practices in the home. The paper then presents the results of an orthographic analysis of the children's attempts to write their vernacu…
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Orthographic competence among multilingual school children
This paper presents children's writing in their vernacular family language, Moroccan Arabic. It first provides some background to the family and school literacies of nine-year-old children of Moroccan Arabic (MA) background growing up in France with French literacy practices at school and Written Arabic literacy practices in the home. The paper then presents the results of an orthographic analysis of the children's attempts to write their vernacu…
The adaptation of Main to Luxembourgish
This paper describes the addition of Luxembourgish to the language versions of MAIN, the adaption process and the use of MAIN in Luxembourg. A short description of Luxembourg’s multilingual society and trilingual school system as well as an overview of selected morphosyntactic and syntactic features of Luxembourgish introduce the Luxembourgish version of MAIN
Literacies in contact
Research on language contact has so far mainly focused on oral situations, although standardization and language ideologies always have an important influence on multilingualism in both its written and its spoken form. This raises the question of which theoretical models are most suitable for the description of written language contact. The present paper recalls linguistic investigations of written language. Some research on multilingual writing …
Foreign schriftdenken in ausbau languages
The concept of schriftdenken describes how the knowledge of a writing system in use guides the creation of a writing system for a yet to be standardized language. Trubetzkoy described this effect with reference to the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet in the 9th century with Greek as the reference writing system. This paper demonstrates schriftdenken and measures to increase orthographic differences in two writing systems with a relatively yo…
Spelling patterns of plural marking and learning trajectories in French taught as a foreign language
Although French plural spelling has been studied extensively, the complexity of factors affecting the learning of French plural spelling are not yet fully explained, namely on the level of adjectival and verbal plural. This study investigates spelling profiles of French plural markers of 228 multilingual grade 5 pupils with French taught as a foreign language. Three analyses on the learner performances of plural spelling in nouns, verbs and pre- …
Effects of parallel syntactic training in French plural spelling and German noun capitalization
French plural markers and German noun capitalization encode syntactic information. Both syntactic markers present the syntactic information needed reliably and saliently, and both are unrelated to phonology. A main difference between both is that French plural spelling is part of inflection morphology and encodes the plural morphemes in written French. German noun capitalization is not a morpheme or a grapheme, but an allograph licensed in a part…
Writing/reading interface
Syntactic markers and syntactic spelling
In this paper, we first summarize the results of studies that have investigated the acquisition, reading, and spelling of noun phrases (NPs) in German and French. Then, we present the assumptions made in those studies. In the main part of the paper, we provide a detailed comparison of German and French noun phrases. There are numerous differences that have never been discussed in this context before; for example, the behavior of articles in Germa…
Early Childcare Attendance, Home Language, and Listening Comprehension
Research Findings: Research indicates that early childcare is beneficial for children’s language skills. Children from minority home language groups especially benefit from an early start. In this study, we investigated the association between early childcare attendance (ages 0 to 4 years) and listening comprehension in the language of instruction in multilingual Luxembourg. In particular, we analyzed whether this association was moderated by hom…
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · German (3 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (3 works) · Multilingualism (3 works) · Noun (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Spelling (3 works)