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.

Main research areas

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.

  1. Developing pragmatic competence on a stay abroad

    Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Trebits, A. (Project staff) & Mißfeldt, D. (Project staff)

    01.09.1201.09.14

    Project: Research

  2. Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children. Conference, Princeton University, 11. -13.09.2013

    O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Immel, A. (Partner)

    01.09.1231.12.13

    Project: Scientific event

  3. Schulnahe Unterstützung für einen modernen Englischunterricht in Brandenburg

    Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Vogt, S. (Project staff)

    14.09.1209.12.15

    Project: Research

  4. Tag questions across the Englishes

    Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Pandarova, I. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.1231.07.14

    Project: Research

  5. HeaLinGO: Health and Language Integrated Gaming Online

    Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Schiemann, S. (Project manager, academic), Dadaczynski, K. (Project staff), Blume, C. (Project staff), Schmidt, I. (Project staff) & Schmidt, P. R. (Project staff)

    Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank

    01.06.1331.03.16

    Project: Research

  6. Telecollaboration and learner corpora: Delivering insights into foreign language pragmatic competence

    Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Black, E. (Project staff)

    01.08.1331.01.15

    Project: Research

  7. Leuphana Lehrerbildung - Konzept einer Lehrerbildung für den Lernort Schule 2020

    Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic) & Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.1321.06.19

    Project: Research

  8. Sustainable Education & Going Green – An Intercultural German-American Blended- Learning Project

    Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Kohl, M. (Partner, non-academic) & Ernst, K. (Partner)

    02.09.1331.01.15

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  9. ASB: American Studies Blog

    Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)

    19.09.1321.01.15

    Project: Other

  10. Nah dran! Die Praxis als Vorbild

    Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic)

    14.07.1430.04.16

    Project: Teaching