Profile
Professional career
- 06/2014 - 09/2018
Student (later academic) assistant, Didactic Center of the University of Oldenburg (committee support, conference organization, editing of information material) - 07/2016 - 09/2018
Student (later academic) assistant, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg - 10/2018 - 11/2022
Research assistant, Institute for German Studies at the University of Oldenburg - 01/2021 - 10/2021
Research assistant in the DFG project “Textile Minimalists. Pioneers of Sustainable Practice?” at the Institute for Material Culture at the University of Oldenburg - 10/2021 - 03/2022
Research assistant, Institute for German Studies at the University of Leipzig (substitute) - 06/2022 - 09/2022
Contractor, Didactic Center of the University of Oldenburg (organization of the Pedagogical Week conference and establishment of an information portal on teacher training) - 12/2022 - 09/2024
Research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim (third-party funded project LernGrammis) - since 10/2024
Junior Professor of School Grammar, Institute of German Studies, Leipzig University
Education
- 10/2013 - 09/2016
Bachelor's program in German Studies / Biology, University of Oldenburg - 10/2016 - 09/2018
Master's program in German Studies / Biology, University of Oldenburg - 10/2018 - 10/2021
PhD program in German Studies, University of Oldenburg
Panel Memberships
- 01/2015 - 01/2018
Council of the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Oldenburg - 04/2019 - 10/2022
Admission council for the Master's programme "Language dynamics: acquisition, variation, change" an the University of Oldenburg - 04/2019 - 10/2022
Council of the Institute for German Language and Literature, University of Oldenburg (substitute) - 04/2019 - 10/2022
Academic Commission of the School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg (substitue) - 04/2020 - 04/2021
Examining Board for the teaching degree for grammar school at the University of Oldenburg (substitue) - 04/2021 - 10/2022
School council of the School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg (substitue) - 11/2023 - 09/2024
Worker's Council at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Mannheim
- German grammar
- Grammar teaching at school
- Teaching grammar with online resources
- Graphematics and orthography
- Punctuation and punctuation didactics
- Writing system research
- Graphetics and Handwriting Research
- Reinken, N.Die Grammatik der HandschriftenHeidelberg: Winter. 2023.
- Fuhrhop, N.; Reinken, N.Minimalistischer OrthographieunterrichtIn: Müller, H. G.; Kepser, M.; Schallenberger, S. (Eds.)Neue Wege des Orthografieerwerbs. Forschung – Vermittlung – Reflexion. Wien: Lemberger. 2021. pp. 9–21.
- Reinken, N.; Antonioli, G.; Schneider, R.Grammatikographie für den DaF-Unterricht. Die Online-Ressource LernGrammis als Referenz- und Übungsgrammatik.German as a Foreign Language. 2024. pp. 75–99.
- Reinken, N.Handwritten letters and grammatical structures in German. A frameworkWritten Language and Literacy. 2023. 26 (2). pp. 155–187.
- Reinken, N.; Deepen, L.; Romstadt, J.Der Gedankenstrich und seine DidaktikIn: Langlotz, M.; Fürstenberg, M.; Romstadt, J. (Eds.)Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven auf Interpunktion. Fehler, Korrektur, Reflexion. Bielefeld: Schneider wbv. 2024. pp. 195–223.
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Graphematics – The German Writing System
- Winter semester 2018/19, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
- Summer semester 2019, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
- Winter semester 2019/20, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
- Summer semester 2021, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
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Syntax
- Winter semester 2018/19, University of Oldenburg (seminar and exercise course)
- Summer semester 2022, University of Oldenburg (seminar and exercise course)
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Foreign words
- Winter semester 2020/21, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
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Cases of doubt in the German language
- Summer semester 2020, University of Oldenburg (seminar and exercise couse)
- Summer semester 2022, Leuphana University Lüneburg (seminar)
- Summer semester 2022, Leuphana University Lüneburg (seminar)
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Syntax for school
- Winter semester 2021/22, Leipzig university (seminar and exercise couse)
- Winter semester 2021/22, Leipzig university (seminar and exercise couse)
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»The Awful German Language« – Prejudices about the German language and their linguistic basis
- Summer semester 2022, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
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Written language in school
- Winter semester 2022, University of Osnabrück (seminar)
- Winter semester 2022/23, University of Osnabrück (seminar)
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Theories of syntax
- Winter semester 2022/23, University of Oldenburg (seminar)
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Grammatical terms, konzepts, and tests
- Winter semester 2024/24, Leipzig university (seminar and exercise couse)
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Grammar for orthography
- Winter semester 2024/24, Leipzig university (seminar and exercise couse)
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School grammar revolution
- Summer semester 2024/25, Leipzig University (seminar and exercise couse)
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Introduction into the system of German language
- Summer semester 2024/25, Leipzig University (seminar)
Research fields
Linguistics, German language and literature
Specializations
German grammar
Grammar teaching at school
Teaching grammar with online resources
Graphematics and orthography
Punctuation and punctuation didactics
Writing system research
Graphetics and Handwriting Research
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