KATEŘINA ŠICHOVÁ (26 – 27 November, 2017)

Bohemicum Regensburg-Passau, Universität Regensburg

Kateřina Šichová studied German Studies, History and Education at Masaryk University in Brno,  followed by Czech Philology at the University of Regensburg. She received her doctoral degree in Comparative Linguistics from the Institute of Germanic Studies at the University of Regensburg.

From 1997-2001, she was employed as an assistant professor at the Institute of German Studies at the Pedagogical Faculty at Masaryk University in Brno, before taking up a position as a researcher within a sociolinguistics project at the University of Regensburg.

She has taught Czech at Bohemicum – the Institute for Czech Studies at the University of Regensburg since 2005. Her work focuses on the methodology and didactics of Czech as a foreign language, with increasing emphasis on the issues facing heritage speakers of Czech and German.

She also regularly teaches linguistics courses the University of Regensburg and at Charles University in Prague and publishes papers on the topics of phraseology, sociolinguistics and the language of advertising.

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