All Stories

  1. Intergenerational transmission of the structure of the auditory cortex and reading skills

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, June 2026, Elsevier

    Raphael Berthele

  2. «Yes, I understood that in German: wishy-washy!» Political polarization and the foreign language effect

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Raphael Berthele

  3. Doing politics in the other language. Sentiment and subjectivity in Swiss political debates

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  4. A Case Study of Online and Paper Bilingual Dictionaries and their Impact on Vocabulary Learning through Meaning-Focused Reading

    Article • International Journal of Lexicography, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Raphael Berthele

  5. Apprendre des mots en FLE avec ChatGPT

    Article • Babylonia Journal of Language Education, March 2025, Association Babylonia Switzerland

    Raphael Berthele

  6. Multilingualism and Working Memory: The Role of Formal vs. Informal Language Learning

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Raphael Berthele

  7. Old whines in nuevas bouteilles

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, January 2025, John Benjamins

    Raphael Berthele

  8. NEBULA101: an open dataset for the study of language aptitude in behaviour, brain structure and function

    Article • Scientific Data, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raphael Berthele

  9. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures

    Article • January 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Raphael Berthele

  10. Language Aptitude and Affective Dispositions in Young EFL Learners with Special Educational Needs

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raphael Berthele

  11. Swiss-German Additive Focus Particle auch in bi-/multilingual Speakers: The Role of Language Typology, Language Dominance and Proficiency

    Article • Journal of the European Second Language Association, January 2025, White Rose University Press

    Raphael Berthele

  12. Dyslexia in Bilinguals: a PRISMA Systematic Review

    Article • December 2024, Center for Open Science

    Raphael Berthele

  13. A behavioural exploration of language aptitude and experience, cognition and more using Graph Analysis

    Article • Brain Research, November 2024, Elsevier

    Raphael Berthele

  14. Teaching methods emphasizing phonological forms enhance L2 vocabulary learning

    Article • Language Teaching Research, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Nathalie Dherbey Chapuis, Raphael Berthele

  15. NEBULA101: an open dataset for the study of language aptitude in behaviour, brain structure and function

    Article • August 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Raphael Berthele

  16. Vocabulary card learning: Testing multilingual translations and increased semantic processing

    Article • Language Teaching Research, June 2024, SAGE Publications

    Raphael Berthele

  17. Young learners’ academic self-concepts for L2/L3 French and English

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  18. A Behavioural Exploration of Language Aptitude and Experience, Cognition and More Using Graph Analysis

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Raphael Berthele

  19. Trilingual children’s narratives: a longitudinal study of lexical development

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  20. Digitale Übersetzungsprogramme und Online-Wörterbücher im Fremdsprachenunterricht:

    Article • Linguistik Online, May 2023, University of Bern

    Raphael Berthele

  21. Predicting foreign language skills based on first languages: The role of lexical distance and relative morphological complexity

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, September 2022, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  22. Fachbeitrag: Entwicklung der Fremdsprachkompetenzen Englisch bei Kindern mit sonderpädagogischer Förderung

    Article • Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete, June 2022, Ernst Reinhardt, GmbH & Co. KG

    Raphael Berthele

  23. Gefördert und überfordert?

    Article • Babylonia Journal of Language Education, August 2021, Association Babylonia Switzerland

    Raphael Berthele

  24. Lexical measures as a proxy for bilingual language dominance?

    Article • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, May 2021, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  25. Introduction: What's Special About Multilingualism?

    Article • Language Learning, November 2020, Wiley

    Raphael Berthele

  26. The Extraordinary Ordinary: Re‐engineering Multilingualism as a Natural Category

    Article • Language Learning, June 2020, Wiley

    Raphael Berthele

  27. The selective celebration of linguistic diversity: evidence from the Swiss language policy discourse

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  28. Alemannisch und der Deutschunterricht.

    Article • Linguistik Online, November 2019, University of Bern

    Raphael Berthele

  29. Multilingual boost vs. cognitive abilities: testing two theories of multilingual language learning in a primary school context

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  30. The roles of language mode and dominance in French–German bilinguals’ motion event descriptions

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, May 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Raphael Berthele

  31. Predicting human lexical richness ratings of short French, German, and Portuguese texts using text-based indices

    Article • Journal of Writing Research, February 2019, Gert Rijlaarsdam/SIG Writing

    Raphael Berthele

  32. Policy recommendations for language learning: Linguists’ contributions between scholarly debates and pseudoscience

    Article • Journal of the European Second Language Association, January 2019, White Rose University Press

    Raphael Berthele

  33. Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children

    Article • December 2017, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Raphael Berthele

  34. 1. Investigating Interdependence and Literacy Development in Heritage Language Speakers: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

    Article • December 2017, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Raphael Berthele

  35. 10. Assessing Heritage Languages and Interdependence: Why and How?

    Article • December 2017, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Raphael Berthele

  36. 2. Testing Interdependence in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland: The HELASCOT Project

    Article • December 2017, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Raphael Berthele

  37. 6. Testing the Interdependence of Languages (HELASCOT Project)

    Article • December 2017, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Raphael Berthele

  38. Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children

    Article • November 2017, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Raphael Berthele

  39. What would disprove interdependence? Lessons learned from a study on biliteracy in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  40. Interactions between formal distance and participant-related variables in receptive multilingualism

    Article • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  41. The effect of language mode on motion event descriptions in German–French bilinguals

    Article • Language and Cognition, November 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Raphael Berthele

  42. Fachbeitrag: Sprachliche Heterogenität und Schule. Eine Kritik an der Linguistisierung sozialer Probleme

    Article • Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete, November 2016, Ernst Reinhardt, GmbH & Co. KG

    Raphael Berthele

  43. 22. Multilingual communication

    Article • March 2016, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  44. Static spatial descriptions in five Germanic languages

    Article • Language Sciences, May 2015, Elsevier

    Raphael Berthele

  45. Age and Foreign Language Learning in School

    Article • April 2015, Nature

    Dr Amelia Lambelet, Raphael Berthele

  46. The lifespan development of cognate guessing skills in an unknown related language

    Article • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  47. Conclusion

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raphael Berthele

  48. Introduction

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raphael Berthele

  49. Theories and Hypotheses on the Influence of Age on Language Development

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raphael Berthele

  50. Das Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit in Fribourg/ Freiburg (Schweiz)

    Article • Sociolinguistica - International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics / Internationales Jahrbuch für europäische Soziolinguistik, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  51. Disentangling manner and path

    Article • November 2013, John Benjamins

    Raphael Berthele

  52. Factoren bij het herkennen van cognaten in onbekende talen: algemeen of taalspecifiek?

    Article • Taal en tongval, July 2013, Amsterdam University Press

    Raphael Berthele

  53. Receptive multilingualism in the Swiss Army

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  54. Multiple languages and multiple methods: Qualitative and quantitative ways of tapping into the multilingual repertoire

    Article • August 2012, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  55. On the use of PUT Verbs by multilingual speakers of Romansh

    Article • April 2012, John Benjamins

    Raphael Berthele

  56. On abduction in receptive multilingualism. Evidence from cognate guessing tasks

    Article • Applied Linguistics Review, May 2011, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  57. Das Verständnis grammatischer Strukturen beim Lesen in Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung

    Article • Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, September 2010, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  58. The multilingual reader: advantages in understanding and decoding German sentence structure when reading German as an L3

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Raphael Berthele

  59. Investigations into the folk’s mental models of linguistic varieties

    Article • March 2010, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  60. A nation is a territory with one culture and one language: The role of metaphorical folk models in language policy debates

    Article • November 2008, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  61. Sein+Direktionalergänzung: Bewegung ohne Bewegungsverb

    Article • December 2007, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  62. Ort und Weg

    Article • December 2006, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  63. Static spatial relations in German and Romance

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Raphael Berthele

  64. Die deutsche Schriftsprache und die Regionen

    Article • November 2002, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  65. Learning a second dialect: A model of idiolectal dissonance

    Article • Multilingua, January 2002, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  66. Sprache in der Klasse

    Article • December 2000, De Gruyter

    Raphael Berthele

  67. Translating African‐American Vernacular English into German: The problem of ‘Jim’ in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, November 2000, Wiley

    Raphael Berthele

  68. Language Planning and Standardization in a Minority Language Context

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Raphael Berthele