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.
Foreign language pragmatic development
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Warga, M. (Partner)
01.01.05 → 31.12.07
Project: Research
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Englische Sprachwissenschaft im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
van Riesen, K. (Coordination) & Barron, A. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Individual grant
E-Learning basierte Einführungskurse in das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und die Betriebswirtschaftslehre (sowie inhaltsbezogen studienrelevante Englisch-Kompetenzen)
Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) & Blume, C. (Project staff)
01.05.17 → 30.09.17
Project: Other
DigiTaL - Teilprojekt 10: DigiCLIL-Exchange: Vermittlung fremdsprachlicher, interkultureller und fachlicher Kompetenzen zur Vorbereitung und Begleitung studienrelevanter Auslandsaufenthalte im Blended-Learning-Format
Barron, A. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Benitt, N. (Project staff), Birdman, J. (Project staff), Pandarova, I. (Project staff) & Çiçek, O. (Project staff)
01.08.21 → 31.12.25
Project: Teaching
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
CODIP: Competences for Digital-Enhanced Individualized Practice
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Herzog, C. (Coordination), Altenburger, L. (Project staff), Diekhoff, H. (Project staff), Hase, A. K. (Project staff), Kahnbach, L. (Project staff), Wendt, C. (Project staff), Wucherpfennig, S. (Project staff), Horst de Cuestas, K. (Project staff) & Neumann, A. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
American Studies Journal/Blog V
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 31.03.19
Project: Research
American Studies Journal/Blog IV
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)
12.12.16 → 15.02.18
Project: Other
American Studies Journal and Blog
Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff)
01.12.15 → 31.01.17
Project: Research