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.
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
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)
01.09.12 → 31.12.13
Project: Scientific event
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
Selbstlern-Moodle-Kurs als Begleitung zum Modul "Introduction to English Literature"
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Köhler, U. K. (Project staff)
15.10.11 → 15.10.13
Project: Teaching
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