@article{WieseMayrKraemeretal.2017,
  author    = {Wiese, Heike and Mayr, Katharina and Kr{\"a}mer, Philipp and Seeger, Patrick and M{\"u}ller, Hans-Georg and Mezger, Verena},
  title     = {Changing teachers' attitudes towards linguistic diversity},
  series = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics},
  volume    = {27},
  journal   = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0802-6106},
  doi       = {10.1111/ijal.12121},
  pages     = {198 -- 220},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {We discuss an intervention programme for kindergarten and school teachers' continuing education in Germany that targets biases against language outside a perceived monolingual 'standard' and its speakers. The programme combines anti-bias methods relating to linguistic diversity with objectives of raising critical language awareness. Evaluation through teachers' workshops in Berlin and Brandenburg points to positive and enduring attitudinal changes in participants, but not in control groups that did not attend workshops, and effects were independent of personal variables gender and teaching subject and only weakly associated with age. We relate these effects to such programme features as indirect and inclusive methods that foster active engagement, and the combination of 'safer' topics targeting attitudes towards linguistic structures with more challenging ones dealing with the discrimination of speakers.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MuellerWieseMayretal.2015,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Hans-Georg and Wiese, Heike and Mayr, Katharina and Kr{\"a}mer, Philipp and Seeger, Patrick and Mezger, Verena},
  title     = {Changing teachers' attitudes towards linguistic diversity},
  series = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics},
  volume    = {27},
  journal   = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {198 -- 220},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {We discuss an intervention programme for kindergarten and school teachers' continuing education in Germany that targets biases against language outside a perceived monolingual 'standard' and its speakers. The programme combines anti-bias methods relating to linguistic diversity with objectives of raising critical language awareness. Evaluation through teachers' workshops in Berlin and Brandenburg points to positive and enduring attitudinal changes in participants, but not in control groups that did not attend workshops, and effects were independent of personal variables gender and teaching subject and only weakly associated with age. We relate these effects to such programme features as indirect and inclusive methods that foster active engagement, and the combination of 'safer' topics targeting attitudes towards linguistic structures with more challenging ones dealing with the discrimination of speakers.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{WieseFreywaldMayr2009,
  author    = {Wiese, Heike and Freywald, Ulrike and Mayr, Katharina},
  title     = {Kiezdeutsch as a test case for the interaction between grammar and information structure},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-38376},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {This paper deals with Kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of Germany. We show that, in Kiezdeutsch, we find evidence for both grammatical reduction and new developments in the domain of information structure, and hypothesise that this points to a systematic interaction between grammar and information structure, between weakened grammatical constraints and a more liberal realisation of information-structural preferences. We show that Kiezdeutsch can serve as an interesting test case for such an interaction, that this youth language is a multiethnolect, that is, a new variety that is spoken by speakers from a multitude of ethnic backgrounds, including German, and forms a dynamic linguistic system of its own, thus allowing for systematic developments on grammatical levels and their interfaces with extragrammatical domains.},
  language  = {en}
}