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Dr. Leo Will

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English Department / Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10B, Room 437

D-35394 Giessen, Germany

Tel.: +49 641 99 30332

Email: Leo.Will@anglistik.uni-giessen.de

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Nadine Traughber

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10B, Room 436

D-35394 Giessen, Germany

Tel.: +49 641 99 30331

Fax: +49 641 99 30339

Email: Nadine.Traughber@anglistik.uni-giessen.de

Bio

Bio

Bio

Leo Will teaches TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) at the English department of JLU. He is currently conducting phenomenological research into pre-service language teacher education in Germany. The study investigates EFL teachers’ memories of the university experience, with results standing to inform language teacher education in various degrees of granularity. Beside his duties at JLU, Dr. Will is an adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s University Halifax (Canada) and a consultant for LEO.org GmbH. He also held a temporary position as full professor (W3) at Augsburg University from 2022 to 2023. Dr. Will has co-authored an EFL textbook for English teaching in year 5 where teachers often deal with highly heterogeneous learner groups. He earned his PhD at LMU Munich, supervised by Friederike Klippel. His thesis is entitled “Authenticity in English language teaching” and was published via Waxmann in 2018.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Research Interests

 

Theory of language learning and teaching

Language teacher education

Phenomenological research

Digitally-mediated language learning

Vocabulary learning

Authenticity

Language teacher identity

Publications

Publications

Publications

Monographs and edited volumes

Will, Leo (forthcoming). A phenomenology of pre-service language teacher education in Germany. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Will, Leo; Stadler, Wolfgang; Eloff, Irma (eds.) (2023). Authenticity across languages and cultures. Themes of identity and in foreign language teaching and learning. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Will, Leo; Kurtz, Jürgen; Zeyer, Tamara; Martinez, Hélène (eds.) (2022). Dimensionen digitaler Lehre in der universitären Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. (English: Dimensions of digitally mediated instruction in pre-service language teacher education)

Will, Leo (2018). Authenticity in English language teaching. An analysis of academic discourse. Münster: Waxmann.

 

Articles in journals and edited volumes

Will, Leo; Blume, Carolyn (forthcoming; invited contribution). “Exploring the potentials and limitations of multimodal video tasks in EFL”. CALICO Journal 42(1).

Will, Leo (forthcoming). “Dialektik der Digitalisierung. Phänomenologische Überlegungen zu Fortschritt und Verlust beim Fremdsprachenlernen“. In: Kilsbach, Sebastian (ed.). Didak-tische Utopien. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. (English: Dialectic of the digital. Phenomenological considerations on progress and loss in language learning)

Blume, Carolyn; García López, Raúl Enrique; Will, Leo (2023). “Leveraging collaboration: A digitally-mediated pedagogies-of-enactment approach to pre-service language teacher education”. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung (Themenheft: Digitalität im Fremdsprachenunterricht), 53-74.

Will, Leo; Pinner, Richard (2023). “The concept of authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning”. In: Leo Will, Wolfgang Stadler & Irma Eloff (eds.). Authenticity across languages and cultures. Themes of identity and in foreign language teaching and learning. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 25–37.

Will, Leo; Blume, Carolyn (2022). “Reden ist Silber, Kollaboration ist Gold: Aktivierung angehender Lehrkräfte in einem Theorie-Praxis-Projekt zur Förderung der Mündlichkeit im Englischunterricht“. In: Leo Will, Jürgen Kurtz, Tamara Zeyer & Hélène Martinez (eds.). Dimensionen digitaler Lehre in der universitären Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 95-118. (English: Silence is silver, collaboration is gold: engaging future teachers in a theory-and-practice-integrated project for fostering oral competences in EFL classes)

Will, Leo; Kurtz, Jürgen (2022). “Wie bewerten angehende Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte verschiedene Veranstaltungs-, Aufgaben- und Aktivierungsformate in der digitalen universitären Lehre? Ergebnisse einer explorativ angelegten Online-Befragung“. In: Leo Will, Jürgen Kurtz, Tamara Zeyer & Hélène Martinez (eds.). Dimensionen digitaler Lehre in der universitären Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 23-46. (English: How do future language teachers evaluate seminar formats and task formats within online teaching at university? Results of an exploratory online survey)

Will, Leo (2020). “Authentizität – ein kontroverses Konzept“. Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht Basisheft 2020(2), 8-11. (English: Authenticity – a controversial concept)

Wipperfürth, Manuela; Will, Leo (2019). “Wann entscheiden sich Englischlehrkräfte gegen die Arbeit mit dem Lehrbuch? Eine explorative Studie“. In: Dorottya Ruisz, Petra Rauschert & Engelbert Thaler (eds.). Living Language Teaching: Lehrwerke und Unterrichtsmaterialien im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 191–212. (English: When do EFL teachers opt against using the textbook? An exploratory study)

Will, Leo (2018). Authenticity in English language teaching. An analysis of academic discourse. Münster: Waxmann.

Will, Leo (2017). “Authentizität im Fremdsprachenunterricht – erste Schritte zu einer historischen Diskursanalyse”. In: Joachim Appel et al. (eds.). Sprachen Lehren: 26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung in Ludwigsburg, 30. September 2015 - 3. Oktober 2015. Kongressband. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 105–120. (English: Authenticity in foreign language teaching. First steps toward a historical discourse analysis)

Will, Leo (2016). “The authentic language teacher”. In: Friederike Klippel (ed.). Teaching languages – Sprachen lehren. Münster; New York: Waxmann, 75–90.

 

Reviews

Will, Leo (2022). The lived experience of Chinese international students in the U. S. An academic journey (authors: Yalun Zhou & Michael Wei). Info DaF 2022; 49(2–3), 277–280.

 

Teaching materials

Deters-Philipp, Ann-Cathrin; Will, Leo (2021). Crashkurs Englisch für den Start in Klasse 5. Augsburg: Auer Verlag. (English: Crash course English for year 5)