Prof. em. Dr. Michael Legutke
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- Prof. Dr. Michael Legutke
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- Contact
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Contact
Department of English Studies
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 B35394 GiessenTel: 0641/99-30330
- Short Biography
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- 2011 – present Professor Emeritus
- 2002 – present Language advisory board member of the Goethe Institute, Munich
- 2012 Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales
- 2006 – 2010 Visiting Professor, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- 2003 – 2005 Advisory board member of the German Association for Foreign Language Research
- 2001 – 2003 Chairman of the German Association for Foreign Language Research (DGFF)
- 1995 – 2011 Professor of Applied Linguistics and EFL at the University of Giessen (Full Professor)
- 1994 Habilitation in Educational Linguistics ("Sprachlehrforschung"), University of Hamburg.
- 1991 – 1995 Director of a special program in the Department of Research and Development at the Goethe Institute Munich, focus on in-service teacher education
- 1986 – 1991 German Language Consultant to the Pacific North West of the USA
- 1986 Ph.D. TESOL/TEFL, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- 1982 – 1986 Lecturer ("Pädagogogischer Mitarbeiter") TEFL at the JLU
- 1976 – 1982 High school teacher at a comprehensive school near Frankfurt, Germany
- Main Research Interests
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- Foreign language learning in elementary education
- Foreign language teacher education and development
- Electronic literacy and foreign language teacher education
- E-learning didactics in early foreign language learning
- Online foreign language material development
- Portfolio assessment in elementary-level foreign language classes
- Computer-mediated communication (CMC) in foreign language teacher education
- International student interactions in teacher education