Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Research & Intercultural Communication

University of Kassel » Fachbereiche » Faculty of Humanities » Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Phone:

+49 (0)561 804-3358

Fax:	+49 (0)561 804-3721

URL:	http://www.uni-kassel.de/flul

Address:

Kurt-Wolters-Str. 5
34109 Kassel

Description

Our departmental section focuses on the systematic investigation of foreign language learning and teaching processes, and how various factors influence the quality of these processes in cognitively challenging foreign language learning environments. In the aftermath of the PISA study, it has become of paramount importance to identify and research exactly those factors that are key to successful learning. Among these are different learning skills, the use of media, etc. as well as learning and thinking processes such as learning styles, learner types, and learning strategies, which can best be captured by means of introspection. Moreover, our research takes into account culture-specific influences on learning and teaching behavior.

Our classes and student advising put considerable emphasis on the development of our students' skills as learners, teachers, and researchers, following the premises of the LMR (Learner-Moderator-Researcher) Plus Model (Finkbeiner, 2001). This involves the development of a broad range of competencies, including strategic competence (with regard to both learning and teaching), diagnostic competence, and evaluation competence. For instance, our students learn to use, critically evaluate, and develop data collection and assessment procedures; they learn to analyze texts, classroom situations, and thinking processes of teachers and learners. In addition, we foster our students' abilities for self-reflection by raising their awareness for their learner biographies; thus, enhancing their metacognitive awareness is a very important objective for us.

Persons

Past Persons

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Projects

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2020 - 2021	Erasmus + KA1 mit USA (Texas Tech Uni & Texas A&M Uni)
2019 - 2020	Erasmus + KA1 mit Australien (UNSW University)
01/2019 - 12/2023	PRONET ll - P 09
2019 - 2021	ZLF ELearning Lehrinnovationsprojekt: Digitalisierung der Lehre durch Lehrvideos
07/2018 - 02/2022	Processing Instruction for L3 English: Differences between balanced and unbalanced bilinguals (PI-BI-L3) (with Alessandro Benati (Hong Kong University), Dietmar Roehm (PLUS) & Anastazija Kirkova Naskova, University of Skopje
06/2018 - 06/2018	Frei
2016 - 2016	Konferenzförderung "L2 Grammar Acquisition"
07/2015 - 12/2018	Mehrsprachigkeitspotenziale im bilingualen Sachfachunterricht
2015 - 2015	Forschungsanschubsförderung Projekt: Migration and Multilingualism: predicting outcomes in third language acquisition
2014 - 2014	Vice-Chancellor Grant Processing L2 and L3 grammatical input

Publications

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2023	Böhnert, A., Grölz, K., Hartig, K., Klingebiel, F., Müller, A., Staab, R., 2023. Das Praxissemester im Lehramtsstudium in Hessen. Waxmann, Münster and New York. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:26207
2023	Finkbeiner, C., Olson, A.M., Ost, W.S., Shonfeld, M., 2023. Language awareness and cultural awareness in international online cooperation: a mixed-method approach. Language Awareness 33, 407–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2023.2244882
2023	Angelovska, T., Hahn, A., 2023. Third Language Acquisition in the Classroom, in: Cabrelli Amaro, J., Chaouch-Orozco, A., González Alonso, J., Pereira Soares, S.M., Puig-Mayenco, E., Rothman, J. (Hrsg.), The Cambridge handbook of third language acquisition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, NY, S. 466–491. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108957823.019
2022	Heredia, R.R., Angelovska, T., Cieślicka, A.B., 2022. An online (r)examination of frequency and context effects in code-switching using the auditory moving window. International Journal of Bilingualism 26, 695–709. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069211056003
2022	Angelovska, T., 2022. Cognitive aspects of Processing Instruction, in: Piske, T., Steinlen, A.-K. (Hrsg.), Cognition and Second Language Acquisition. Narr, Tübingen, S. TBD.
2022	Finkbeiner, C. (Hrsg.), 2022. Erzählen und zuhören: Generationstandems. Eine Dokumentation (in Zusammenarbeit mit Yvonne Hesse). eBook. Edition 7, Berlin.
2022	Finkbeiner, C., Cohen, A., Shonfeld, M., 2022. Learning from distance: About distance learning in an international online and multicultural environment (Originaltitel: טכנולוגיות למידה בהשכלה הגבוהה בישראל), in: Cohen, A., Shonfeld, M., Ravid, G., Shmuleli, E. (Hrsg.), Learning Technology in Higher Education in Israel (Originaltitel: לומדים מרחוק: על למידה מרחוק בסביבה בינלאומית ורב-תרבותית מקוונת). IUCEL, Tel Aviv, S. 65–90.
2022	Finkbeiner, C., Pflüger, C., Wetzel, L., 2022. Multiperspektivität, Mehrsprachigkeit und Language Awareness: Zeitzeugnisse und Lebensgeschichten als Gegenstand einer Studierendenkonferenz, in: Heinzel, F., Krasemann, B. (Hrsg.), Erfahrung und Inklusion. Herausforderungen und Konzepte der Lehrer*innenbildung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, S. 231–253.
2022	Angelovska, T., 2022. The Multilingual Language Classroom: Applying Linguistically Diverse Approaches for Handling Prior Languages in Teaching English as a Third Language, in: Krulatz, A., Neokleous, G., Dahl, A. (Hrsg.), Theoretical and applied perspectives on teaching foreign languages in multilingual settings : Pedagogical implications. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK and Jackson, TN, S. 67–81. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788926423-009
2021	Finkbeiner, C., Hesse, Y., 2021. Das Lehr-Lern-Labor Englisch: eine hochschuldidaktische Lernumgebung zur Professionalisierung zukünftiger Lehrkräfte für einen kultursensiblen und sprachbewussten Fremdsprachenunterricht, in: Bosse, D., Wodzinski, R., Griesel, C. (Hrsg.), Lehr-Lernlabore der Universität Kassel – Forschungsbasierte Verknüpfung von Theorie und Praxis unter dem Aspekt der kognitiven Aktivierung. Kassel University Press, Kassel, S. 78–89. https://doi.org/doi:10.17170/kobra-202109274811

Other Research Activities

02/2024	DiWiBe - Digitalisierung von wirtschaftlich-kaufmännischen Berufsfeldern verstehen und unterrichten. Presentation
09/2024	Professionelle Entwicklung im Zeichen digitalisierter Arbeitswelten: Ein systematisches Literaturreview aus berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischer Perspektive. Presentation
08/2024	SYMPOSIEN & SEKTIONEN Conference or similar event
from 2022	Ampersand Ampersand: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences and Bilingualism (Fachzeitschrift) Publisher activity
from 05/2022	Cambridge Journal of Education (Fachzeitschrift) Review
from 2022	Frontiers in Language Sciences (Fachzeitschrift) Publisher activity
10/2022	Pronunciation assessment for the foreign language classroom: some challenges and practical solutions Presentation
04/2022	Second Language Teacher Education: Challenges and New Horizons (SLTED 2022) (Veranstaltung) Review
from 2022	Second Language Teacher Education: Challenges and New Horizons (SLTED 2022) (Veranstaltung) Review
04/2022	System (Fachzeitschrift) Review