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.
- Acquisition and Interlanguage Pragmatics- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.98 → … - Project: Research 
- ASB: American Studies Blog- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff) - 19.09.13 → 21.01.15 - Project: Other 
- American Studies Blogs II- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Moss, M. (Project manager, academic), Völz, S. (Project staff) & Henck, M. (Project staff) - 22.09.14 → 06.11.15 - Project: Research 
- American Studies Blog VII- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) - 11.08.20 → 31.08.21 - Project: Practical Project 
- 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 
- 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/Blog V- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.18 → 31.03.19 - 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 
- 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 
- 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 
- 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 
- 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 
- Foreign language pragmatic development- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Warga, M. (Partner) - 01.01.05 → 31.12.07 - Project: Research 
- Georg Forster - Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.11.23 → 31.01.26 - Project: Individual grant 
- Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - 01.09.21 → 31.08.24 - Project: Research 
- Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendium für Postdoktoranden (gefödert durch Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.22 → 31.12.24 - Project: Research 
- Going Green – Education for Sustainability- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) - 01.09.21 → 31.08.23 - Project: Transfer (R&D project) 
- Green living and sustainability in the Community- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) - 01.02.15 → 30.06.15 - Project: Practical Project 
- 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 
- Innovation Plus 2021/2022 Nr. 59. KOHÄRENZ ERLEBEN – REFLEXION VON UNTERRICHT: AUFGABENORIENTIERT UND VIDEOBASIERT- Karber, A. (Project manager, academic), Padberg-Gehle, K. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Süßenbach, J. (Project manager, academic), Beckmann, T. (Project staff) & Bielski-Wüsthoff, P. (Project staff) - Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony - 01.01.21 → 31.01.23 - Project: Teaching 
- 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 
- Lehreinheiten Basiskompetenzen Inklusion in den Fachdidaktiken (Zweite Förderphase)- Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Abels, S. (Partner), Leiss, D. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Greve, S. (Project staff) & Troll, B. (Project staff) - Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony - 01.12.17 → 31.03.19 - Project: Research 
- Leuphana Language Game Lab: Mit Gesellschaftsspielen Sprachen vertiefen- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Miralles-Andress, N. (Project manager, academic) - 26.10.16 → … - Project: Other 
- 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) - 01.09.13 → 21.06.19 - Project: Research 
- Lückentexte revisited: Vom computerbasierten, adaptiven Testen zum adaptiven, fremdsprachlichen Üben mit automatisiertem, dynamischem Feedback: Entwicklung und Effekt-Messung am Beispiel „L2 Englisch Lückentexte Verbformen im Zeitengefüge“- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Benitt, N. (Partner), Brefeld, U. (Partner) & Pandarova, I. (Project staff) - 01.10.16 → 30.09.17 - Project: Research 
- Nah dran! Die Praxis als Vorbild- Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic) - 14.07.14 → 30.04.16 - Project: Teaching 
- civicOER: Offene Bildungsressourcen für das Lernen durch Verantwortung in Schule, Hochschule und Zivilgesellschaft. Teilvorhaben: Lehrerbildung, Sprach- und Kulturtandems sowie Zertifikatsprogramm- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Brückner, J. (Project staff) - Federal Ministry of Education and Research - 01.11.16 → 31.05.18 - Project: Research 
- Interact4School: Out-of-school individual learning and the interfaces to school teaching: Effective digital practising as a basis for competence-oriented foreign language teaching- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Beilharz, S. (Project staff), Pili-Moss, D. (Project staff), Meurers, D. (Project manager, academic), Nagengast, B. (Project manager, academic), Trautwein, U. (Project manager, academic), Holz, H. (Project staff), Nuxoll, F. (Project staff) & Wendebourg, K. (Project manager, academic) - Federal Ministry of Education and Research - 01.04.20 → 31.12.23 - Project: Research 
- Pluricentric variation in responding to 'thanks'- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.19 → … - Project: Research 
- Pragmatics of Discourse. Handbook of Pragmatics III- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schneider, K. P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.08 → 01.07.13 - Project: Research 
- Projektbezogener Personenaustausch Finnland- Fetzer, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.06.07 → 14.05.09 - Project: Other 
- Promotional genres: Variation across genre and culture- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.04 → 01.09.12 - Project: Research 
- Public Information Messages. A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication in Germany and Ireland- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.07.05 → 01.09.12 - Project: Research 
- QualiTIES: Qualifying Teachers for Innovative English Settings: Teaching English in heterogeneous classes in secondary years education- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Gerlach, D. (Project manager, academic) & Roters, B. (Project staff) - 01.04.18 → 31.07.21 - 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 
- 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 
- 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) - 02.09.13 → 31.01.15 - Project: Transfer (R&D project) 
- Tag questions across the Englishes- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Pandarova, I. (Project manager, academic) - 01.12.12 → 31.07.14 - Project: Research 
- Teach about U.S.- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) - 29.06.15 → 26.01.18 - Project: Practical Project 
- Teach About U.S.: Educational Outreach Project 2018-2020- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Kaliampos, J. (Project manager, academic) - 25.09.18 → 28.02.21 - Project: Practical Project 
- Teach about US: Educational Outreach Project - Bridging the American Studies and Science Classrooms: Going Green Meets STEM- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Kaliampos, J. (Project staff), Abels, S. (Partner) & Hüfner, S. K. (Project staff) - 24.02.17 → 30.09.18 - Project: Practical Project 
- Teach about U.S. IV- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Kaliampos, J. (Project staff) - 01.09.20 → 28.02.21 - Project: Practical Project 
- Teaching pragmatics with textbooks- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) - 01.07.12 → … - Project: 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 
- The 2024 U.S. Elections School Project- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) - 01.02.24 → 31.05.25 - Project: Practical Project 
- ZZL-Netzwerk: Theorie-Praxis-Vernetzung im ZZL-Netzwerk in den vier Handlungsfeldern „Heterogenität und Inklusion“, „Kompetenzorientierte Unterrichtsgestaltung“, "Coaching & Mentoring" sowie „Lehrkräftegesundheit".- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Peperkorn, M. (Project staff), Beckmann, T. (Project staff), Kulin, S. (Project staff), Besser, M. (Project staff), Fischer, N. (Project staff), Straub, R. P. (Project staff), Troll, B. (Project staff), Köhler, A. (Project staff), Scharnberg, S. (Project staff), Landmeier, J. K. (Project staff), Waschewski, T. (Project staff), Bürgener, L. (Project staff), Brückner, J. (Project staff), Dollereder, L. (Project staff) & Bode, P. (Project staff) - Federal Ministry of Education and Research - 01.01.16 → 30.06.19 - Project: Other 
- ZZL-Netzwerk 2.0: Theorie-Praxis-Verzahnung in der Lehrerbildung in den Handlungsfeldern „Kompetenzorientierter Unterricht“, „Inklusion“, „Coaching & Mentoring“ und „Lehrkräftegesundheit“- Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Weinhold, S. (Project manager, academic), Straub, R. P. (Project staff), Schilling, L. (Project staff), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Fischer-Schöneborn, S. (Coordination), Bormann, F. (Project staff), Kuchenbuch, F. (Project staff), Ahlers, M. (Partner), Verbücheln, E.-M. (Project staff), Barth, M. (Partner), Jastrow, F. (Project staff), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Anders, D. (Project staff), Kleinknecht, M. (Partner), Hohensee, E. (Project staff), Schiemann, S. (Partner), Paulus, P. (Partner), Claußen, J. T. (Project staff), Poschkamp, A.-K. (Project staff), Köllner, G. (Project staff), Hüfner, S. K. (Project staff), Schürmann, H. (Project staff) & Abels, S. (Partner) - Federal Ministry of Education and Research - 01.07.19 → 31.12.23 - Project: Transfer (R&D project) 
- The pragmatics of Irish English- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schneider, K. P. (Partner) - 01.01.20 → … - Project: Research 
- Transformations:Räume für zukunftsorientiertes Lernen- Japsen, A. (Coordination), Meier, N. (Coordination), Wenzel, M. (Project manager, academic), Farny, S. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic) & Cnossen, B. (Project manager, academic) - 01.07.22 → 31.12.23 - Project: Other 
- TRAWLER: Thinking, Researching, and Academic Writing - a Learning English Resource for Moodle.- Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Hübner, A. (Project manager, academic), Blume, C. (Project staff), Dwenger, I. C. (Project staff) & O'Connor, S. (Project staff) - 01.07.19 → 31.12.19 - Project: Practical 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 
- Variational Pragmatics: Regional variation across the Englishes- Barron, A. (Project manager, academic) & Schneider, K. P. (Partner) - 01.01.20 → … - 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 
