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
- Guest lectures
Towards a fully-automated adaptive e-learning environment: A predictive model for difficulty generating factors in gap-filling activities that target English tense-aspect-mood
Irina Pandarova (Oral presentation)
13.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transdisziplinäre Entwicklungsteams in der LehrerInnenbildung - Verbindung von Akteuren aus dem Kontext (schul-)pädagogischer und hochschulischer Bedingungen
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transformation durch Dialog der Disziplinen, Akteur*innen und Institutionen – Vom Bezugsdisziplinen-Ansatz der Englischdidaktik zu transdisziplinären Communities für Innovation in Forschung, Lehre und Unterrichtspraxis
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
03.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Videographiebasierte Forschungsmethoden
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
15.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Was bringen die digitalen Medien für den Lerngewinn im (Englisch)Unterricht?
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
29.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
When the going gets tough, the tough go green: Exploring Sustainability in an Intercultural Blended-Learning Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Lecturer) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
'When the going gets tough, the tough go green': Explorng Sustainability in an Intercultural Blended-Learning Project
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
28.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zwischen Zuckerguss und simulierten Welten - Digitales Fremdsprachenlernen in Zeiten von Gamification, Serious Games und Commercial Off-The-Shelf Games
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
13.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Goethe-Institut München (External organisation)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2018 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
The English Academy (External organisation)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2008 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Transfer
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
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
Arkansas Foreign Language Teacher Association (AFLTA) (External organisation)
Joannis Kaliampos (Member)
2010 → 2011Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Education
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (External organisation)
Nora Benitt (Member)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (External organisation)
Joannis Kaliampos (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
German Association for American Studies e.V. (External organisation)
Joannis Kaliampos (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language IATEFL (External organisation)
Joannis Kaliampos (Member)
2013 → 2014Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
TESOL International Association (External organisation)
Nora Benitt (Member)
2013 → 2015Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
TESOL International Association (External organisation)
Joannis Kaliampos (Member)
2014 → 2015Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2012 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Ombudsperson (Organisational unit)
Torben Schmidt (Office)
01.04.2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2012 → 2016Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Zukunftszentrum Lehrerbildung (ZZL) (Organisational unit)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- Visiting an external academic institution
Goethe Institut, USA
Joannis Kaliampos (Visiting researcher)
12.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Saint Mary's University
Torben Schmidt (Visiting researcher)
15.07.2010 → 15.09.2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
- Academic Consultant
Fachgutachter für die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Torben Schmidt (Reviewer)
01.05.2014 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Gutachter über die Qualität der Studienangebote und der Lehre
Torben Schmidt (Reviewer)
2015 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Jurymitglied Hans-Eberhard-Piepho-Preis
Nora Benitt (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Peer review of project proposals
„Bildungsinnovation braucht Bildungsforschung“ -
Torben Schmidt (Reviewer)
01.02.2023 → 01.06.2023Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
- Conference Presentations
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
“...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
Cognitive predictors of accurate syntax/semantics mapping in the early stages of adult L2 learning
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
02.09.2019 → 03.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Connecting sustainability and culture: Building competencies through virtual exchange
Jodie Birdman (Coauthor), Irina Pandarova (Coauthor), Anne Barron (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Coauthor), Nora Benitt (Coauthor) & Handan Çelik (Coauthor)
03.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Contributions of declarative and procedural memory to second language accuracy and automatization
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
28.08.2019 → 31.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
DELT – Digitally-enhanced Language Teaching: Entwicklung und Implementierung eines hochschulischen standortübergreifenden Lehr-Lernkonzepts zur digitalisierungsbezogenen Professionalisierung von Englischlehramtsstudierenden
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Svea Wucherpfennig (Speaker), Rossa Henning (Speaker), Joline Schmit (Speaker) & Lisa Klaaen (Speaker)
28.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Designing Digital Material for Foreign Language Learning
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Manuela Schlick (Speaker)
16.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digitale (Lehr)Welten - Rollenverständnis und Kompetenzen von Fremdsprachenlehrenden
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Jan Sprenger (Speaker)
25.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Digitalkonferenz: Fremdsprachenlernen im digitalen Zeitalter
Torben Schmidt (Plenary speaker)
04.09.2020 → 06.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Do mindsets make a difference? Professionalizing teachers for inclusive language learning environments
Bianca Roters (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker), David Gerlach (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
23.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Education for Sustainability and Going Green: Intercultural Learning in a German-American Blended-Learning Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker), Martina Kohl (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Education for Sustainability and Going Green: Intercultural Learning in a German-American Blended-Learning Project
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
14.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Effektives digital gestütztes Üben im kompetenzorientierten EFL-Unterricht: Fokus auf L2-Entwicklung und Feedback in einem intelligenten Tutorensystem
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
27.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Enhancing EFL classroom instruction via an ICALL platform: effects on language development and transfer to tasks (EUROCALL)
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker), Lisa Middelanis (Speaker) & Detmar Meurers (Speaker)
18.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Going Green Education for Sustainability (Fremdsprachentag Berlin-Brandenburg)
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
08.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Going Green Education for Sustainability (Fremdsprachentag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
24.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Going Green in the EFL Classroom– Investigating learner agency for global digital citizenship
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
18.01.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Going Green" - Teaching Sustainability and ICC in a German-American Online Co-operation Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Individual difference predictors of L2 learning at the syntax/semantics interface
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
20.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research