Dr. Lukas Lazzara

Research assistant

Bürgerstraße 23
Building: BS, Room: 174, Floor: 3. OG
76829 Landau

l.lazzara(at)rptu.de

03 / 2025 - todayResearch assistant in the CHANCEN network, competence center for data-supported quality development (Prof. Dr. Karina Karst)
2023

Doctorate in the subject of educational science

2021 - 2025Research assistant in primary school pedagogy, University of Koblenz-Landau/ RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
2016 - 2021Study of Psychology (M.Sc.), Saarland University

Kellermann, K., Bücking, S., & Lazzara, L. (2026). Restructuring of relative clauses into prenominal expansions - a comparison between grades 3, 4, 6 and 9. Journal of Applied Linguistics.doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2026-2002

Haen, A., Steffensky, M., Bürgermeister, A., Hardy, I., Leuchter, M., Bednarski, F., Koschick, S.-K., Lazzara, L., & Saalbach, H. (2025). Talking about Science in Preschool: The Effect of Preschool Teachers' Instructional Support and Children's Verbal Participation on Language and Knowledge Development within the Science Domain. Early Education and Development, online first. doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2025.2571977

Kellermann, K., Lazzara, L., & Führer, C. (2026, accepted). Promoting language awareness in written interpretation with ChatGPT. Norm and deviation of educational language features in student texts and AI texts. In Hesse, F. & Jagdschian, L. (eds.). Literature // Artificial intelligence // Didactics.

Lazzara, L., Merkert, A., Sasse, H., Wildemann, A., & Leuchter, M. (2026, accepted). Working title: Semantics and syntax in science experimentation and laboratory work. Journal for primary school research.

Reuter, T., Lazzara, L., & Leuchter, M. (2025) Static, Dynamic, or Human? The Role of Slide Dynamics and Instructor Cues in Video Lecture. Educational Technology Research and Development, online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10572-0

Lazzara, L., Weber, A., & Leuchter, M. (2025). Building Minds with Blocks: The Impact of a Play-Based Professional Development on Preschool Teachers' Competencies and Children's Learning. Teaching and Teacher Education, 165, 105144. doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2025.105144

Steffensky, M., Haen, A. C., Lazzara, L., Koschick, S.-K., Bürgermeister, A., Venitz, L., Saalbach, H., Leuchter, M. & Hardy, I. (2025). Diagnostics and adaptive support in early science education: An app-based approach for the professionalization of pedagogical professionals. In K. Beck, R. A. Ferdigg, D. Katzenbach, J. Kett-Hauser, S. Laux & M. Urban (Eds.), Support-related diagnostics in inclusive education (Vol. 1, pp. 73-94). Münster: Waxmann. doi.org/10.31244/9783830999607

Hardy, I., Leuchter, M., Saalbach, H., Steffensky, M., Bürgermeister, A., Prasser, A., Koschick, S.-K., Haen, A., Venitz, L., Lazzara, L., Bednarski, F., & Keller, S. (2024). Accompanying materials on science education for inclusive daycare centers. Landau: RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau.

Lazzara, L., & Leuchter, M. (2024). The promotion of linguistic, mathematical and scientific skills in building games. Landau: RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau.

Kellermann, K., & Schmitt, L. (2024) How pupils and student teachers describe complex pictures. A corpus linguistic study on the structure of arrangement. Journal of Elementary School Research. doi: 10.1007/s42278-024-00200-w

Schmitt, L., Weber, A., Venitz, L., & Leuchter, M. (2023). Preschool Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge Predicts Willingness to Scaffold Early Science Learning. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(4), 1034-1052. doi:10.1111/bjep.12618

Schmitt, L., Weber, A., Weber, D., & Leuchter, M. (2023). First Insights into Preschool Teachers' Instructional Quality in Block Play and its Associations with Children's Knowledge, Interest, Academic Self-Concept and Cognitive Aspects. Early Education and Development, online first, 0-0. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2023.2233879

Barkela, V., Schmitt, L., & Leuchter, M. (2023). The impact of cognitive and motivational resources on engagement with automated formative feedback. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 102234. doi: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102234

Berkle, Y., Schmitt, L., Tolzin, A., Janson, A., Wambsganss, T., Leismeister, J. M., & Leuchter, M. (2023). Measuring university student's ability to recognize argument structures and fallacies. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1270931. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1270931

Kellermann, K., & Schmitt, L. (2023). Adjectives in picture descriptions. A corpus linguistic study on the adjective use of bilingual and monolingual students. Corpora of German as a Foreign Language 3(1). doi: 10.48964/kordaf.3727

Kellermann, K., & Schmitt, L. (2023). Adjective use in picture descriptions - A corpus linguistic study on the use of adjectives in students' texts. Linguistik Online, 122(4), 67-86. doi: 10.13092/lo.122.10199