TY  - CHAP
U1  - Teil eines Buches
A1  - Farag, Rahaf
A1  - Möhrs, Christine
A1  - Schoppa-Briele, Elena
ED  - Dörler, Daniel
ED  - Heigl, Florian
ED  - Höhener, Olivia
T1  - “Die Sprach-Checker”: young citizen scientists explore their languages in Mannheim’s Neckarstadt-West
T2  - Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2023 (ACSC2023). 19-21 April 2023, Linz, Austria
N2  - “Die Sprach-Checker” (Eng. “Language Checkers”) are young citizen scientists from Mannheim’s highly diverse district Neckarstadt-West. Together with linguists, they investigate a tremendous treasure: their own multilingualism. They are exploring and (re)discovering their own languages and the other languages used in their environment while documenting and reflecting on their everyday experiences in and with different linguistic practices. Our aim is to raise awareness of their strengths and to promote appreciation for their language biographies, thus fostering a sense of identification with one’s own linguistic surroundings. Such a joint research endeavour offers empirical opportunities to address (linguistic) issues of societal relevance by collecting authentic data from the multicultural district and involving its residents and local stakeholders. In this paper, we will provide insights regarding the project’s background, conception, and outcomes. We address everyone who is planning or conducting a citizen science project with young people, especially children and adolescents, or who works at the interface between science and society.
T3  - Proceedings of Science (PoS) - 442 
KW  - Citizen Science
KW  - Mannheim
KW  - Mannheim-Neckarstadt (West)
KW  - Mehrsprachigkeit
KW  - Linguistic Landscape
KW  - Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
KW  - Die Sprach-Checker
KW  - Forum Deutsche Sprache
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-123644
SN  - 1824-8039
SS  - 1824-8039
U6  - https://doi.org/10.22323/1.442.0001
DO  - https://doi.org/10.22323/1.442.0001
SP  - 6
S1  - 6
PB  - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
CY  - Trieste
ER  -