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Portrait: Sasha Genevieve Coelho, M.A.
Sasha Genevieve Coelho, M.A.
  • Phone:
    +49 371 531-36562
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  • Address:
    Reichenhainer Straße 39, 09126 Chemnitz
  • Room:
    218
  • Office hours:
    by appointment

Short Resume

I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai, India. Following which, I pursued a Master's degree in Psychology at Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu, India. My interest in German as a foreign language led me to pursue the Grünes Diplom (German Teacher Training Program) at the Goethe-Institut in Mumbai, where I also worked as a German language teacher and teacher's trainer for 5 years.

In the year 2019 I received the Confucius Institute Scholarship to attend the C1 course at the Tianjin University of Technology. I have also taught HSK 2 and HSK 3 Mandarin courses at the Confucius Institute in Mumbai.

In 2023 I completed my Master's in Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. My Master's Thesis compared the processing and understanding of the genitive vs. dative cases in leichte Sprache (easy German texts) by learners of German as a foreign language. 

Research interests

My research interests include Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis, Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Human-Robot Interaction, and the development of ontologies to support machine learning applications.

Certificates

Grünes Diplom - the Goethe-Institut’s internal standardised qualification for German language teachers.

Scholarships awarded

  • October 2022 - September 2023 -  Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Scholarship for the Master's program Applied Linguistics
  • September 2019 - January 2020 - Confucius Institute Scholarship for a language course at Tianjin University of Technology
  • December 2018  - Goethe Institut Language and Cultural Exchange Scholarship,  Goethe-Institut, München
  • January 2016 - Goethe Institut Language Scholarship, Goethe-Institut, Bonn

Teaching

  • SS 25: Current Topics in Digital Linguistics (Python for Linguists)
  • WS 24/25: Qualitative and Quantitative Digital Research Methods
  • SS 24: Current Topics in Digital Linguistics
  • WS 23/24: Qualitative and Quantitative Digital Research Methods

Publications

"Another bit. Upwards. Okay, stop." Do we talk differently to humans and robots when assembling a shelf together?. (2025) Coelho, S. G., Kaden, S., Beccard, M., Röhrbein, F., & Sanchez-Stockhammer, C. In Proceedings of the 2025 Mensch und Computer 2025 (pp. 465-470). https://doi.org/10.1145/3743049.3748536

Workshops

July 2025 Foundations of R: Introduction to R, RStudio, and the R ecosystem, (Antony Unwin & Sasha Coelho) 
Workshop at Summer School Visualization of Linguistic Data with R hosted at TU Chemnitz with the support of the Lernbrücke Chemnitz-Lviv (a DAAD project funded by the Harald-Christ-Stiftung für Demokratie und Vielfalt)
July 2025 Modern R (the tidyverse and ggplot2): Preparing data and drawing graphics, (Antony Unwin & Sasha Coelho) 
Workshop at Summer School Visualization of Linguistic Data with R hosted at TU Chemnitz with the support of the Lernbrücke Chemnitz-Lviv (a DAAD project funded by the Harald-Christ-Stiftung für Demokratie und Vielfalt)
May 2025 Data Visualization with R: an introduction to ggplot 2, (Coelho,S.)
Workshop at CIRES Seminar hosted in Zaragoza, Spain.
May 2025 Introduction to data analysis with R and Tidyverse (Coelho,S.)
Workshop at the Universidad Zaragoza hosted in Zaragoza, Spain.

Presentations

July 2025 The future of fairy tales in corpus linguistics: Introducing TransGrimm, a multilingual multi-parallel corpus in the making (Sanchez-Stockhammer, S., Coelho, S., Tochtermann, J., & Jeromin, M. 2025) Presentation at Futurcorp2040 hosted in IDS Institut für Deuschte Sprache,Mannheim, Germany.
April 2025 “Can you hold that for a sec?”: Speech acts in human-robot and human-human interaction. (Kaden, S., Ivanova, M., Coelho, S., Röhrbein, F. & Sanchez-Stockhammer, C. 2025) Poster Presentation at the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter hosted in Bologna, Italy.
October 2024 „Positivity bias in science communication: A sentiment and corpus linguistics analysis of the Science Media Centre “. (Coelho, S., & Akan, C. 2024) Presentation at the conference I, Expert: Media competence for science through linguistics (2024 DAAD program “Higher Education Dialogue with South Europe”) hosted by the English and Digital Linguistics Department TU Chemnitz.
June 2024 „Die Nützlichkeit der Genitivvermeidung für DaF Lernenden“. Presentation at the EDL (English Digital Linguistics) Research Colloquium hosted by the English and Digital Linguistics Department TU Chemnitz.
March 2024 „Kann Leichte Sprache zu leicht sein? Die Genitivvermeidung und ihre Nützlichkeit für verschiedene Zielgruppen“. (Coelho, S., Wettmann, J., Hasenäcker, J., & Domahs, F. 2023) Poster presentation at the conference „Einfach oder Komplex? Befunde zur Passung Geschriebener Sprache für verschiedene Zielgruppen“ hosted by Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprachenphilologie,Universität Heidelberg March 2024.