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
- 2020
Cognitive predictors of child and adult L2 learning in the earliest stages of aural exposure
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
06.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Assessing cognitive abilities for L2 learning: A review of accessible tools
Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)
09.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
- 2019
Learning Management Systems in EFL: Simulating the U.S. Presidential Election in a Transatlantic Blended Learning Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
13.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Going Green: Digital project work as a transdisciplinary and transcultural task in the foreign language and STEM classrooms
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
07.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Goethe Institut, USA
Joannis Kaliampos (Visiting researcher)
12.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Language Learning in Blended-Learning Projects: Moodle, Web 2.0, and Learner Agency
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
11.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Kongress Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung - DGFF 2019
Carolyn Blume (Speaker), David Gerlach (Speaker), Bianca Roters (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
27.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Leveraging digital affordances to make language learning stick
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
24.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
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
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
Multiperspektivische Unterrichtsvideos in der Lehrerbildung
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
11.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Künstliche Intelligenz und Fremdsprachenlernen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
09.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM Classrooms
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
26.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Teach About US – Innovative Ways of Teaching English: An Update on Ongoing Projects
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
01.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL Classroom
Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
30.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Investigating learner agency for global digital citizenship
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
26.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Teach About US – Innovative Ways of Teaching English
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
13.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Language Learning in Digital Projects - The Going Green Project
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
09.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Developing learner agency in technology-enhanced transdiciplinary EFL learning environments – The Going Green Project
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
02.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Teaching students with dyslexia and reading/spelling difficulties in the English as a foreign language classroom
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
02.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Going Green
Joannis Kaliampos (Organiser), Torben Schmidt (Organiser), Andreas Hübner (Organiser), Maria Moss (Organiser), Inga Cornelia Dwenger (Organiser), Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich (Organiser), Andreas Hübner (Speaker) & Maria Moss (Speaker)
20.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Going Green - Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM Classrooms
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
20.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM Classrooms
Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)
08.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
,,English Day'' an der Oberschule Jesteburg - 2020
Andreas Hübner (Organiser) & Nora Benitt (Organiser)
24.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
- 2018
KBBB Herbsttagung: Transfer zwischen Lehrer(fort)bildung und Wissenschaft
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker), David Gerlach (Speaker), Susanne Esser (Speaker) & Elisabeth Bollmann (Speaker)
05.11.2018 → 06.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The ABCs of Inclusive English Teacher Education: Attitudes, Beliefs and (Reflective) Competence
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Carolyn Blume (Speaker) & Bianca Roters (Speaker)
25.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The ABCs of Inclusive English Teacher Education; Attitudes, Beliefs, & (Reflective) Competence.
Torben Schmidt (Speaker), Bianca Roters (Speaker) & Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
20.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Aufbruch in das Fremdsprachenlernen von morgen
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
22.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ein Chatbot-System für das Fremdsprachenlernen
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
27.07.2018Activity: 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
Gamification of Language Leaning
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
12.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kompetente Lehrkräfte vs. Intelligente Software — Wie kann fremdsprachliches Üben mit digitalen Medien optimiert werden?
Torben Schmidt (Speaker)
21.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Mobile Language Learning und Gamification – Good and Bad Recipes for Chocolate Coated Broccoli
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
15.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Englisches und Romanisches Seminar der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Doktorandenkolloquium der Fremdsprachendidaktik
Carolyn Blume (Oral presentation), Bianca Roters (Oral presentation) & Torben Schmidt (Oral presentation)
01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das inklusive Klassenzimmer - 2018
Simone Abels (Organiser), Nora Benitt (Organiser), Michael Besser (Organiser), Steffen Greve (Organiser), Torben Schmidt (Organiser) & Jessica Süßenbach (Organiser)
2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Goethe-Institut München (External organisation)
Torben Schmidt (Member)
2018 → 2023Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- 2017
Kompetente Lehrkräfte vs. intelligente Software - Wie kann fremdsprachliches Üben mit digitalen Medien optimiert werden?
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
05.12.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Videoplattform "Multiview" als Lerngelegenheit für Studierende zum Umgang mit Heterogenität und Inklusion - Unterrichtssituationen aus 11 Perspektiven
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer) & Carolyn Blume (Lecturer)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transdisziplinäre Entwicklungsteams in der Lehrer_innenbildung - Verbindung von Akteuren aus dem Kontext schulischer und hochschulischer Bedingungen
Sabrina Kulin (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Robin Pascal Straub (Speaker)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › 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
Teaching the machine how to assess grammar skills. Modelling verb-tense exercise characteristics as a basis for an adaptive E-learning system
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer), Irina Pandarova (Lecturer) & Roger Dale Jones (Lecturer)
29.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Schritte in Richtung einer vollautomatisierten, adaptiven E-Learning-Umgebung-Entwicklung eines Vorhersagemodels schierigkeitsgenerierender Einflussfaktoren bei Lückentext-Übungen im Bereich Tense-Aspect-Mood
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
14.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Videographiebasierte Forschungsmethoden
Torben Schmidt (Lecturer)
15.06.2017Activity: 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
Programm-Workshop "Inklusion und Heterogenität als Thema der Lehrer_innenbildung" der QOLB
Milena Peperkorn (Speaker), Bianka Troll (Speaker), Michael Besser (Speaker), Katharina Müller (Speaker), Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Carolyn Blume (Speaker)
05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
Torben Schmidt (Oral presentation)
13.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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
Roger Dale Jones (Oral presentation)
13.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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