Institute of English Studies
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
At the interface of cultural studies and education, the Institute contributes to a number of different BA, MA and M.Ed. degree courses, e.g. Bachelor Lehren und Lernen, Master of Education, Leuphana Bachelor (Major Cultural Studies).
The Institute comprises the fields of English Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Area Studies & Language Skills.
Topics
The Institute of English Studies' research reflects the diversity of English and Englishes, English literature and literatures, English culture and cultures, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
We focus on the heterogeneous and hybrid nature of these research areas and the application of our findings in various contexts. Current projects reflect this inter- and transdisciplinary approach. Research in the field of TEFL deals with personal and affective factors of the learner personality and with the intercultural structure of acquisition and communication situations. Competence orientation and assessment are important aspects of our research.
- Guest lectures
Banter, Racism & Acculturation: Intercultural dynamics in team sports
Solvejg Wolfers (Speaker) & Daniel Clayton (Speaker)
16.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Being a female researcher in a male and masculine world. Reflecting on the role of gender and sexual identity when collecting ethnographic data in the sports context.
Solvejg Wolfers-Pommerenke (Speaker)
08.12.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Books for young patriots. A comparative look at British and German picturebooks published before and during the First World War
Emer O'Sullivan (Lecturer)
20.03.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
'Can you play a new CD,please?' Speech act representation in EFL textbooks: An interlanguage pragmatic appraisal (Universität Gießen, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
08.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Career paths and cross-roads: Metaphor as a conceptualisation device (Universität Paderborn, invited talk)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
13.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Caution and Subversion. Perspective and Comedy in English Translations of Struwwelpeter.
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
13.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Children‘s Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
24.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Cognitive predictors of child and adult L2 learning in the earliest stages of aural exposure
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
06.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Comparing Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan (Speaker)
12.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Corpora and Pragmatics: Focus on offers in Irish English and British English (Dublin)
Anne Barron (Lecturer)
21.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education