Anna Toews

Anna Toews studied Culture & Economy: English/American Studies (BA) with business administration at the University of Mannheim in Germany and the University of Limerick, Ireland. In 2025, she completed her master’s degree in Culture & Economy with a focus on English linguistics and multilingualism at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Anna Toews has been an academic staff member at the JP Multilingualism since August 2025 and works for sub-project P2 (Priming in contact-setting bilinguals and monolinguals as a driver of language change) within the DFG-funded research unit SILPAC (Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition, and Change). Her research interests are first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, code-switching and the cognitive mechanisms underlying language acquisition and processing.

• Engemann, H. & Toews, A. (July 7–9, 2025). Boosting L3 French motion event acquisition via L1 and L3 priming[Conference presentation]. RéaL2: Acquisition, processing and use of an L3/Ln: psycholinguistic, linguistic and pedagogical perspectives, Paris, France.
• Toews, A., & Engemann, H. (June 26–28, 2025). Implicit learning of French L2 motion event constructions through within- and across-language priming [Conference presentation]. The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), Tromsø, Norway.
• Toews, A., & Engemann, H. (September 4–6, 2024). “Priming-for-learning”: Implicit learning of French L2 motion event constructions in adult L1 German speakers [Conference presentation]. 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association GCLA/DGKL, Osnabrück, Germany.