Professorship for English Didactics
Organisational unit: Section
Organisation profile
The Department of Didactics of English deals with a variety of aspects of teaching and learning English as a foreign language in education. The emphasis is on primary and secondary schools (Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen), but vocational schools (Berufsbildende Schulen) and further education as well as ongoing professional development are also important fields of work in the following areas: research and teaching in the field of teacher training, methods and approaches of English teaching in view of their role in teaching the English language, English language literature and cultures. The focus of our research is on foreign language teaching and learning with digital media and video-based teaching research.
Teaching and research in the department is concerned with the roles of learners and teachers in the English teaching and learning process and the consequences of this for the design of learning environments, learning materials, tasks and exercises. Our seminars aim to familiarise future teachers with relevant theoretical concepts and evidence-based methods of foreign language teaching and to systematically develop their competences. For this purpose, for example, teaching materials are analysed and materials and lesson plans are developed. Current issues regarding standards and curriculum development are taken into account. In cooperation with campus schools, innovative seminar concepts are realised, which enable a continuous exchange of theory and practice. The seminars also contribute to the development of students' diagnostic skills, by looking at current approaches to learning assessment, especially the European Language Portfolio and forms of digitally supported, adaptive practice and testing. The teaching content focuses on dealing with heterogeneity in foreign language teaching, teaching intercultural communicative competence and constructing digitally supported teaching and learning settings. The Department of English Didactics cooperates closely with the Future Centre for Teacher Education at Leuphana University and is an innovation leader for teaching projects such as the multi-perspective teaching videodatabase Multiview (multiview.leuphana.de) or the use of a video conference system in cooperation with the Jesteburg Secondary School. Within the framework of a permanently established, multi-phasic and multi-institutional development team consisting of university teachers, university students, representatives of the teacher education seminar and external experts, new formats for teacher training are jointly developed and researched.
Research and development areas at a glance:
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (multimedia teaching and learning scenarios, intelligent tutorial systems, artificial intelligence, chatbots)
- Promotion of receptive and productive orality
- Project-based learning didactics
- Drama techniques in the EFL classroom
- Playful approaches (analog and digital game development)
Topics
Computer Assisted Language Learning, Web 2.0 in the EFL Classroom – Tasks, Methods, Scenarios, Project Work, Drama Techniques, Foreign Language Learning on Primary Level,
Teacher Training Research
23. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - 2009
Torben Schmidt (Moderator)
30.09.2009 → 03.10.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
25. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2013
Torben Schmidt (Moderator)
25.09.2013 → 28.09.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - 2015
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
03.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
26. Kongress für Fremdsprachenforschung der DGFF - 2015
Nora Benitt (Speaker)
02.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
28. Arbeitstagung des Arbeitskreises der Sprachenzentren, Sprachlehrinstitute und Fremdspracheninstitute e.V. - AKS 2014
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
02.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
30. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg im Breisgau
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
29.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Kongress des Gesamtverbandes Moderne Fremdsprachen - 2010
Torben Schmidt (Moderator)
16.09.2010 → 18.09.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th European Conference of Health Promoting Schools - 2013
Torben Schmidt (presenter)
06.10.2013 → 09.10.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
52. Jahrestagung der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Englisch an Gesamtschulen - BAG 2014
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
19.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
7th International Conference ICT for Language Learning
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
82. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung - AEPF 2017
Sabrina Kulin (Speaker), Timo Ehmke (Speaker), Dominik Leiß (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
27.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
82. Tagung der Sektion "Empirische Bildungsforschung" - AEPF 2017
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
25.09.2017 → 27.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8. Nachwuchstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2011
Nora Benitt (Speaker)
28.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
AI-enhanced EFL Learning - Research, Developments, and Future Directions
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
08.08.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
All Kinds of Special: Using Multi-Perspective Videos to Prepare Pre-Service Teachers for Inclusive English Instruction
Torben Schmidt (Oral presentation) & Carolyn Blume (Oral presentation)
22.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) (External organisation)
Nora Benitt (Member)
2015Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) (External organisation)
Joannis Kaliampos (Member)
2016 → 2017Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
American Studies Journal (Journal)
Maria Moss (Editor) & Torben Schmidt (Editor)
31.08.2013 → 30.09.2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
“...AND THEN THE STUDENTS WÄRE VERY FETT”: TASK PERFORMANCE AND ‘(NOT)-DOING-BEINGAN-EXPERT’ IN A TBLL SETTING
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker) & Peter Schildhauer (Speaker)
05.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Arbeitsgedächtniskapazität beim Englischlernen mit dem intelligenten Tutorsystem FeedBook
Katharina Wendebourg (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Heiko Holz (Speaker), Detmar Meurers (Speaker), Stephen Bodnar (Speaker) & Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
14.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research