Dr Kevin Perner

Relevant non-academic experience:

• DaZ teacher for young refugees and adults; certified examiner for ÖIF language tests, Austrian Integration Fund (2007–2016)
• German as a Foreign Language (DaF) teacher and tutor in German and English for school pupils and university students, the Austrian Oriental Society and ActiLingua (2005–2007)

• Variation in the German language in a migration society
• Subject Positions in a Society of Migration
• Work-related and specialist communication in a society of migration
• Teaching methodology, assessment and support in multilingual teaching and learning contexts
• German didactics in the context of digital transformation

Monographs:

• Perner, K. R. (2024). Dialect/Standard Input in a Vocational Context in Upper Austria. A conversational linguistic study interpreting variation in German as input for adult learners of German. J. B. Metzler.
• Dannerer, M., Dirim, İ., Döll, M., Grabenberger, H., Perner, K. R. & Weichselbaum, M. (2021). Variation in German: Fundamentals and Suggestions for Regular Teaching (FörMig Material 11). Waxmann.
• Perner, K. R. & Prikoszovits, M. (forthcoming). German as a Foreign/Second Language in a Multilingual Society. Textbook and Workbook for Study and Teaching. UTB Böhlau.

Articles in journals and anthologies:

(** = double-blind peer review, * = editor’s review)

• **Gutenberg, J., Perner, K. R., Krelle, M. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Networked Improved Communities to Strengthen Digital Sovereignty: A Qualitative Case Study in German. In New Perspectives for Language Education. Digital Transformation and Networking. In *MedienPädagogik*. Journal for Theory and Practice in Media Education.
• **Blume, C., Campbell, S., Dausend, H., Goeze, A., Hetfleisch, P., Janßen, A., Kemmerer, A., Keppler, A., Kindermann-Güzel, K., Krelle, M., Lategahn, J., Leonhardt, J.-E., Lepelt, L., Mayer, J., Perner, K. R., Schirrmacher, S., van den Brink, L. & Viebrock, B. (2026). Network-based organisational forms for steering the development, transfer and implementation of didactic innovations to promote digital literacy – Networked Improvement Communities, professional learning communities and learning networks. In: K. Scheiter, D. Richter, J. Brüggemann & J. Jennek (Eds.), Professional Practice in a Culture of Digitality: Findings from the Centre of Excellence for Languages, Society and the Economy (pp. 453–467). Münster: Waxmann.
• *Perner, K. R. & Krelle, M. (2025). A programme offered by the DigiNICs project consortium. Understanding the culture of digitality and teaching it in German lessons. In Continuing Professional Development and Professionalisation Programmes in Languages/Society/Economics (p. 24). Competence Network ‘lernen:digital’.
• *Perner, K. R., Lengyel, D., Dirim, İ., Savaç, A., Atmaca Azak, B., Demir, Ö. & Şentepe, M. O. (2024). Assessing early Turkish literacy whilst taking linguistic variation into account. In S. Guldenschuh, M. Weichselbaum, A. Gouma, M. Döll & İ. Dirim (Eds.), Perspectives on migration education in first-, origin- and mother-tongue teaching (pp. 211–234). Springer VS.
• **Perner, K. R. (2023). Just over one and a half minutes in the variation continuum from dialect to standard language. A variationist/conversational linguistic perspective on dialect/standard input within a short time span, using the example of the in-house use of German by trainers when addressing apprentices learning German in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria. Journal of German in the Context of Multilingualism, 1(2), 85–102.
• **Perner, K. R. & Dirim, İ. (2023). Listening comprehension of non-standard utterances by adults with German as a second language. Journal of German in the Context of Multilingualism, 1(2), 70–84.
• **Perner, K. R. & Brodnik, C. S. (2021). Xenolectal variation on the dialect–standard continuum in the workplace within the Central Bavarian communication area. In K. R. Perner & M. Prikoszovits (Eds.), German and Communication in the Workplace and in Vocational Education and Training in Austria (Language at Work, 4(2)) (pp. 184–203). Franz Steiner.
• **Perner, K. R. & Prikoszovits, M. (2021). Editorial. In K. R. Perner & M. Prikoszovits (Eds.), German and Communication in the Workplace and in Vocational Education and Training in Austria (Language at Work, 4(2)) (pp. 137–140). Franz Steiner.
• *Perner, K. R. (2020). ‘Avoiding misunderstandings’ and the dialect–standard continuum. Conversational analysis perspectives on the acquisition of German as a second language by apprentices within the context of in-company communication in Upper Austria. In U. Esterl & A. Saxalber (Eds.), IDE, 44(4), 50–60.
• **Blaschitz, V., Perner, K. R., Grabenberger, H., Weichselbaum, M., Dirim, İ. & Templ, V. (2020). The acquisition of German as a second language on the dialect–standard continuum. Zielsprache Deutsch 47(2), 3–20.
• *Perner, K. R. & Dirim, İ. (2019). Training and continuing professional development programmes in migration education in the field of ‘German as a second language’. In S. Doff (ed.), Areas of Tension in Teacher Education. Contributions to a Reform Debate (pp. 126–139). Klinkhardt.
• *Dirim, İ. & Perner, K. R. (2019). Dealing with migration-related multilingualism in the school context. In S. Doff (ed.), Areas of Tension in Teacher Education. Contributions to a Reform Debate (pp. 109–125). Klinkhardt.
• **Perner, K. R. (2018). Female speakers as opportunists and intuition as a matter of the mind. In İ. Dirim, J. Köck & B. Springsits (Eds.), Language Racism_Linguizismus_Linguicism. Language(s) and Discrimination in Schools, Higher Education and Society (pp. 325–345). Yeni İnsan.
• *Perner, K. R. (2015). Confident? – An investigation into the concept of the ‘native speaker’. ÖDaF-Mitteilungen 31(1), 32–50.

Editors:

• Krelle, M., Perner, K. R. & Gutenberg, J. (Eds.). (forthcoming). New Perspectives on Language Education. Digital Transformation and Networking. In *MedienPädagogik*. Journal of Theory and Practice in Media Education.
• Perner, K. R. & Prikoszovits, M. (Eds.). (2021). German and Communication in the Workplace and in Vocational Education and Training in Austria (Language in the Workplace, 4(2)). Franz Steiner.

Collaboration:

• Technical University of Liberec (2026). Expert review and consultancy on curriculum development and accreditation of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes at the Chair of German Language. Liberec, Czech Republic.
• Dirim, İ., Lengyel, D., Savaç, A. & Demir, Ö., in collaboration with Perner, K. R. (2022). ELA – A tool for assessing early written language activities in German and Turkish (Guide). phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:1433470.
• Austrian Association for German as a Foreign and Second Language (ÖDaF) (2017). Dénesfa Theses. The ÖDaF’s position on German as a second language. www.oedaf.at/site/interessenvertretungsprac/thesenvondenesfa

• Centre for Language Assessment
  www.univie.ac.at/germanistik/themen/zentrum-fuer-sprachstandsdiagnostik/ (since 2022)
• Second-Language Teaching in the Context of Migration
  www.mpzweitsprachdidaktik.at (since 2016)
• Austrian Association for German as a Foreign or Second Language (ÖDaF), 2016–2019 co-opted member for linguistic and political issues, thereafter full member (since 2016)
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• Visiting Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences / Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage / Department: Variation and Change in German in Austria www.oeaw.ac.at/de/acdh/institut/ (2019–2023)
• International Association for German Studies (IVG) (2015–2020)

Winter term 2026/27:

35342 Introductory Seminar on German as a Second Language

35343 Analysis of Teaching Materials

35352 Variation in German in the Context of DaZ

35354 Accompanying seminar for out-of-school placements

35356 Accompanying seminar for the DaZ placement (secondary school & grammar school)