Research
Research
His academic interest revolves around questions regarding the educational significance of literary texts in the foreign language classroom, the representation of anglophone cultures in media and literature as well as the transaction between literary texts and the learners as readers.
His research areas include…
- Reading processes and sensemaking of young learners of English with multimodal literary texts
- The role of reflection and knowledge-bases in teacher professionalisation
- Sustainability in the English as a foreign language classroom
- The educational potential of the representation of identity in anglophone pop-culture
- Digitalisation in foreign language learning and teaching
Awards and Prizes
| 2015 |
1st place “Piepho-Prize” on research to further foreign language education as an academic field Modellierung literarischer Kompetenz. Eine qualitative Studie im Fremdsprachenunterricht der Sekundarstufe I |
Current Research Projects
Development and professionalization in the second phase of foreign language teacher training
Based on the question of how teachers in the second phase of English teacher training perceive their own professionalization process and how their development can be described, a group of teachers in preparatory service was scientifically accompanied over the entire period of the second training phase.
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Reading and understanding picture books: A study of learners’ engagement with aspects of ambiguity in literary texts
The project focuses on explorative research into the reading processes and sense-making of lower-intermediate learners of English.
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Sustainability and the EFLC
The project’s overall objective is to communicate English didactic considerations on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to regional educational institutions (schools, Studienseminare, school boards).
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