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.
Telecollaboration and learner corpora: Delivering insights into foreign language pragmatic competence
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Black, E. (Project staff)
01.08.13 → 31.01.15
Project: Research
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
01.06.13 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
Tag questions across the Englishes
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Pandarova, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.12 → 31.07.14
Project: Research
Schulnahe Unterstützung für einen modernen Englischunterricht in Brandenburg
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Vogt, S. (Project staff)
14.09.12 → 09.12.15
Project: Research
Developing pragmatic competence on a stay abroad
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Trebits, A. (Project staff) & Mißfeldt, D. (Project staff)
01.09.12 → 01.09.14
Project: Research
Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Grundy, P. (Project manager, academic) & Yueguo, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → 20.01.17
Project: Research
Teaching pragmatics with textbooks
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → …
Project: Research
Vorhabensteil: Sprachliche Heterogenität im schulischen Fachunterricht der Sekundarstufe I
Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Schwippert, K. (Partner), Lutter, A. (Partner), Neumann, A. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner) & Holle, K. (Project staff)
26.06.12 → 31.12.12
Project: Research
Learner Perceptions of Web 2.0-Enhanced EFL Tasks - An Explorative Mixed-Methods Study on the U.S. Embassy School Election Project 2012
Kaliampos, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.12 → 01.03.15
Project: Dissertation project
US Election Project 2012 – A Social Media-based approach to teaching US Election 2012 in the German EFL classroom at secondary level
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Kohl, M. (Partner, non-academic), Junghanns, C. (Partner) & Ernst, K. (Partner)
01.03.12 → 27.02.13
Project: Practical Project