Forskningsinteresser

Nadine Kolb is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (INPUT: Investigating Proxies for Understanding Trajectories: Heritage Language Maintenance and Child Second Language Acquisition in Refugee Contexts) at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT. Her research focuses on heritage language bilingualism, child second and third language acquisition, especially as regards the interface of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors and their relevance for multilingual education.

Undervisning

SPRING 2022:

ENG-2050 Second Language Acquisition (with Natalia Mitrofanova)

LIST OF GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Primary and Secondary Schools, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Spring 2018

Conversational German 215, University of Rochester, Fall 2003 

LIST OF UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

Child Second Language Acquisition, University of Cologne, Spring 2014

Second Language Acquisition, University of Cologne, Spring 2008

Morphosyntactic Development in L2 Acquisition, University of Cologne, Fall 07/08

Bilingualism, University of Cologne, Spring 2007

Recitation for German 102, University of Rochester, Spring 2004

GUEST LECTURES TAUGHT

Second Language Acquisition, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Spring 2022, MA course LER-3151

Third Language Acquisition, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Spring 2022, MA course LER-3151

EFL/ESL in multilingual classrooms, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Fall 2021, BA course ENG-2019 Psycholinguistics

Bilingualism, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Spring 2021, BA course ENG-2050 Second Language Acquisition

Heritage Language Bilingualism, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Fall 2020, BA course HIF-1019 Psychology of Language

Child Second Language Acquisition, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Fall 2019, MA course ENG-3050 Second Language Acquisition

CV

EDUCATION
 
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, English Department, University of Cologne, Dissertation: "Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education: A Study on Generic Determiner Phrases in L2 German and L2 French", 2016 
 
Visiting Scholar, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2008
 
M.A. (1. Staatsexamen Lehramt), English Linguistics and Literature, French Linguistics and Literature, Education, University of Cologne, 2006
 
M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Rochester, 2004

B.A. equivalent, English Linguistics and Literature, French Linguistics and Literature, Education, University of Cologne, 2003
 
Studies of French, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, 2000/2001

APPOINTMENTS

03/2021 – present, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (Forsker), Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

02/2021 – present, Co-Director Bilingualism Matters Branch Tromsø – Flere språk til flere, Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

08/2020 – 08/2022, UiT Aurora Outstanding Fellow, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

12/2018 – 02/2021, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

10/2017 – 10/2018, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Second Language Learning and Teaching, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

11/2011 – 11/2018, Independent Language Immersion Consultant, Berlin, Germany

06/2015 – 06/2017, Independent School Consultant, Jewish Community of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

05/2015 – 07/2015, Teacher of German as a Second Language, Secondary School ‘Schule am Berlinickeplatz’, Berlin, Germany

10/2014 – 04/2015, parental leave

04/2014 – 09/2014, Lecturer, English Department, University of Cologne, Germany

03/2012 – 06/2013, Scientific Project Leader and Postgraduate Researcher, Department of English, University of Cologne/ Kindergarten and Primary School Erasmus Offenbach gGmbH, Germany

12/2009 – 02/2012, parental leave

02/2007 – 09/2008, Postgraduate Researcher, Department of English, University of Cologne, Germany

04/2007 – 09/2008, Pedagogic Exchange Service (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst)- coordinator, Department of English, University of Cologne, Germany
 
02/2006 – 06/2006, Teacher of English as a Second Language, Advanced Training for University Employees (Weiterbildungsprogramm der Verwaltung), University of Cologne, Germany

01/2005 – 12/2006, Research Assistant, Department of English, University of Cologne, Germany
 
09/2003 – 05/2004, Teaching Assistant, German as a Second Language, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Rochester, USA
 
09/2003 – 12/2003, Research Assistant, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Rochester, USA

FUNDED PROJECTS & GRANTS
 
European Commission, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Project INPUT “Investigating Proxies for Understanding Trajectories: Heritage Language Maintenance and Child Second Language Acquisition in Refugee Contexts”, Project no. 882311, 2021-2023, €214,158
 
Robert Bosch Foundation Germany, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Project QITA “Quality development in bi- and multilingual kindergarten programs” (Qualitätsentwicklung in zwei- und mehrsprachigen Kitas), Project no. 12.5.D130.0027.0, 2017-2018, €68,750 (Total €140,000)
 
Paula Menyuk Travel Award for BUCLD 38, 2013
University of Cologne, Travel Grant, 2013
University of Cologne, Dr. Mocker Stiftung Travel Grant, 2012
University of Cologne, Dr. Mocker Stiftung Travel Grant, 2011
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research Grant, 2009
University of Cologne, Travel Grant, 2008