The issue of professionalisation of English Language Teaching (ELT) remains underexplored in academic discourse. This is why, together with my colleague Andrzej Cirocki from the University of York, UK, I have written a timely guide to professional teacher development in ELT, showing how teacher educators and classroom practitioners can develop their practice. The book, published […]
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Literary Studies in Teacher Education Since the beginning of the 2000s, foreign language didactics in all school foreign languages have established themselves as a discipline at virtually all universities – more or less. At the same time, they have also become more diversified, so that quite a few universities have established both a professorship in […]
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Between 2020 and today, digitization has often been treated as a stopgap solution to pandemic distance learning. One may hope, however, that the insight has taken hold in this phase that the digital dimension demands a fundamentally new conception of language, communication, and discursive interaction beyond the pandemic. This also raises the question of whether […]
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More recently, cultural learning in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom has been characterized by pluralization and diversification. This development is overdue, because for a long time, mainly under the heading of intercultural learning, it was oriented to a quite traditional kind of Landeskunde content with a nation-based concept of culture and quite […]
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Methods of the Analysis of Literary Texts In 2010, Vera and Ansgar Nuenning published the commendable volume on “Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary and Cultural Studies,” as it was titled, with Metzler Publishers. This volume responded to the surprising but quite accurate finding that in literary studies the explicit naming and reflection of methodological […]
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The Handbook of Methods in Foreign Language Learning is out now. The first copies were delivered just in time for Christmas 2020. For Hélène Martinez and me, this was a special and also emotional moment: We started our work of conceiving the volume, contacting the authors, and writing our own contributions as early as in […]
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In December 2018, two issues of online journals were published co-edited by me, one special issue of the Journal for Intercultural Language Learning (in German) on the topic “Space and Foreign Language Learning” and a special issue of the cultural studies journal on_culture on Surveillance Cultures (in English). And in May 2019 a new volume […]
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