Funded Research and Awards
- 1988 Public Awareness in the Foreign Language Profession. Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
- 1989 Pro-Lingua Award for Outstanding Contributions to Foreign Language Instruction. Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
- 1991-1995 Director of research and development project Sprachbrücke, funded by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut.
- 1996-1999 Member of the steering committee of the DFG-Graduate Program “Didaktik des Fremdverstehens” (German Research Foudation).
- 2002 Nominated for the Wolfgang-Mittermeier-Award for Excellence in Teaching.
- 2001-2010 (With Dietmar Roesler) “Online Materialentwicklung Fremdsprachen: jetzt deutsch lernen", funded by the Goethe-Institut.
- 2002 - 2011 Co-director of E-LINGO Didaktik des frühen Fremdsprachenlernens (www.e-lingo.de), funded by the Baden Württemberg Foudation (Landesstiftung Baden Württemberg gGmbH) and the State of Hesse.
- Since 2002 Principle investigator of The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU)
- 2008 Teaching Excellence Award 2008.
- Since 2010 Teaching English in the Primary School. Funded by the Hesse State Ministry of Education.