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

  1. 2019
  2. Cognitive predictors of accurate syntax/semantics mapping in the early stages of adult L2 learning

    Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)

    02.09.201903.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Contributions of declarative and procedural memory to second language accuracy and automatization

    Diana Pili-Moss (Speaker)

    28.08.201931.08.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Multiperspektivische Unterrichtsvideos in der Lehrerbildung

    Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Carolyn Blume (Speaker)

    11.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Künstliche Intelligenz und Fremdsprachenlernen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

    Torben Schmidt (Speaker)

    09.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM Classrooms

    Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)

    26.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  7. Teach About US – Innovative Ways of Teaching English: An Update on Ongoing Projects

    Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)

    01.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  8. Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL Classroom

    Torben Schmidt (Speaker) & Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)

    30.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  9. Investigating learner agency for global digital citizenship

    Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker) & Torben Schmidt (Speaker)

    26.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Teach About US – Innovative Ways of Teaching English

    Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)

    13.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  11. Language Learning in Digital Projects - The Going Green Project

    Joannis Kaliampos (Speaker)

    09.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

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