About

Anna Janka is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Education and Digital Transformation at Zurich University of Teacher Education (PH Zürich).

She completed her studies at the University of Bern, graduating summa cum laude with a major in Sociolinguistics and a minor in Digital Humanities. Her research examines questions of education, equality and differentiated instruction from a linguistic perspective, with digital research methods playing a central role. In her doctoral thesis at the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies of the University of Zurich (supervised by Prof. Noah Bubenhofer), she investigates how the concept of differentiated instruction is negotiated in Swiss daily and weekly newspapers as well as in educational journals.

In addition, she serves annually as an examiner for German in the “Maturitätsprüfungskommission” of the Canton of Obwalden, where she conducts the oral and written final exams.

Focus on research, teaching, services

• Corpus linguistics
• Digital cultural linguistics
• Differentiation, Adaptivity, Individualization, Personalization (in the classroom)

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