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Sven Albrecht, M.A.
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    Reichenhainer Straße 39, 09126 Chemnitz
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    C46.230 (prev. 2/39/230)
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About me

Short Curriculum Vitae

I studied English and American Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology from 2009 to 2013. During my BA studies, I spent a semester abroad in Granada, Spain. In 2013 I enrolled for a Master of Arts Degree in English and American Studies, specializing in linguistics and TESOL, and graduated in 2016. During my master studies, I completed a teaching internship at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and Zhuhai, China.
After graduation, I worked as an English teacher at a vocational school in Chemnitz and at a private high school in Zhuhai, China.
Since February 2019, I have been working as research staff on the ERASMUS+ project TEFL-ePAL, which aims at improving the English program at Palestinian higher education institutions..

Research Interests

Corpus linguistics, world Englishes computational linguistics, academic writing, TESOL.

Publications

Year Publication
2021 Current research on the linguistic features of Chinese English. World Englishes, 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12572
2020

Using Topic Modeling to Analyse Political Speeches.In J. Schmied & J. Dheskali (Eds.), Conflicting Truths in Academic and Journalistic Writing (pp. 243-253). Göttingen: Cuvillier.
2017 Corpus-Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Determiner Usage in Chinese Student WritingTesting the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Corpus Linguistics 2017 Conference, University of Birmingham, 25-28 July2017. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/corpus/conference-archives/2017/general/paper384.pdf.
2015
Connecting Adverbials in Student Writing: Usage in the ChemCorpus and comparable Corpora.In J. Schmied (Ed.), Graduate Academic Writing in Europe in Comparison (pp. 67-80). Göttingen: Cuvillier.

International Conferences and Presentations

Month and Year Conference or Presentation
06/2023 IAWE25: Comparing Vowel Spaces across Three Circles: aquantitative corpus-based Approach
05/2023 TUC Linguistics Marathon: Linguistic Perspectives on Building a Neural TTSSystem for Teaching and Learning Settings
03/2023 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies: Establishing Conversational Pedagogical Agents as CredibleKnowledge Providers: the Case of Synthesized Italian English
08/2022 ESSE2022: Talking about news articles related to the CovidPandemic on Twitter: Global Discourse and Intertextuality
06/2022 IEEE CIVEMSA: Towards a Vowel Formant Based Quality Metricfor Text-to-Speech Systems: MeasuringMonophthong Naturalness (best paper award 2nd place)
06/2022 Keynote at China English at Manchester 2022: Current research on the linguistic features ofChinese English
05/2022 TISLID22: Computer agents with non-native English as a credible compromise between solidarity and professionality: university communication in national cultural accents
05/2022 TISLID22: mLearning for Palestine:Practical challenges in a project to “bridge educational and socio-political gaps” for university learning
04/2022 Privacy Symposium: Untying the Gordian Knot: Legally Compliant Sound Data Collection and Processing for TTS Systems in China
10/2021 Vowel Plots with Praat and R
09/2021 Doctoral Symposium at the Department of English Language and Literature of Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
7/2019 Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: From digital data to digital tools for research and publishing
7/2017

Resources

Praat Scripts

Automated Vowel Formant Measurements of data force aligned using the Montreal Forced Aligner.

Automated Vowel Formant and Duration Measurements of data force aligned using the Montreal Forced Aligner.

Automated Articulation Rate Measurements of data force aligned using the Montreal Forced Aligner.