


Towards Anti-Racist English Language Education: Theoretical Implications and Practical Considerations for a Self-Reflective Teaching Practice

Redefining English Literacy: Dyslexia, Inclusivity, and (Classroom) Participation

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Karg Foundation funds project at the University of Münster
With the William Stern Programme, the Karg Foundation aims to encourage young scientists to enter the field of gifted and talented research. The first projects of the programme are now starting and we are very proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Till Utesch and Alicia Battenfeld have been successful in their application for the "Tandem" grant. Alicia will be doing her PhD in the field of Language Learning Aptitude with Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz and Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut as her supervisors.
Read the full article here.
HRER WERA IRN Webinar
Human rights perspectives in language education for sustainable development
Join Ricardo Römhild online on 15th November, 16.30 GMT, registration is FREE (link below)
In this HRER WERA IRN webinar, we will explore how human rights-informed language education may empower learners to contribute to living together in a more sustainable and just world. It is based on a recent article of mine published with Human Rights Education Review.
Thank you to Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey for making this possible!
Everyone who's interested is more than welcome to join.
More info and registration here

Meeting in Maynooth, Ireland

Field trip to Freiburg: The ELE team at the DGFF congress 2023
The biennial DGFF congress is the most important event for foreign language researchers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After the covid pandemic forced the 2021 congress to be held entirely via Zoom, this year’s edition took the ELE team to the charming city of Freiburg.
The members of our team came packed with individual presentations and symposia.
On top of these very successful contributions, we celebrated the election of Ricardo Römhild to the DGFF advisory board – congratulations!
The atmosphere throughout the four days of the congress was overwhelmingly positive and upbeat after four years without in-person exchange with the research community. We would like to cordially thank the team at the local University of Education led by Olivier Mentz for their impeccable organization and their extremely warm welcome. We are already looking forward to the next DGFF congress in Kassel, 2025.

Jens-Folkert Folkerts visited Prof. Dr. Thomas Strasser (PH Vienna)
Jens-Folkert Folkerts embarked on an enriching research stay at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (PH Wien) under the guidance of the awesome Professor Dr. Thomas Strasser. His primary focus was on exploring the intersection of digitalization, artificial intelligence, and listening comprehension instruction, as well as on analyzing the Austrian school system. This innovative approach not only broadened his horizons but also provided valuable insights for future educational strategies. He returned with a deepened understanding of how digitalization and AI intersect with effective listening instruction, ready to actively apply his knowledge and contribute to the advancement of the education system. (Text written in co-creation with ChatGPT 3.5 ;-) )

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Veränderte Abschlussprüfung EFL-Modul
Alle Studierenden die nach Juli 2023 die Modulabschlussprüfung im EFL-Modul des Zweifach-Bachelors geschrieben haben/schreiben werden, sollten sich mit den Veränderungen der Abschlussprüfung vertraut machen.
Mehr Infos finden Sie auf unserer Study-Homepage

Fachleitertagung Englisch – Künstliche Intelligenz im Englischunterricht
Am 29.08.23 fand die jährliche Fachleitertagung der Fachleitungen Englisch (Gym/Ges) des Regierungsbezirks Münster am ZfsL Gelsenkirchen statt. Thomas Henrichs und Michael Rogge, die auch unser Team zu diesem Bar Camp zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz im Englischunterricht einlud, führten durch den Tag. Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz hielt einen Impulsvortrag mit dem Titel New Kinds of Learning: Pedagogical Concepts and Pracitces to Implment AI in the Language Classroom, an den sich viele Scrum Sessions rund um das Thema anschließen. Wir möchten uns ganz herzlich für diese Einladung und den gemeinsamen, wertschätzenden und sehr bereichernden Austausch bedanken und freuen uns schon jetzt auf das nächste Bar Camp im August 2024!

12. Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen

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New Erasmus+ project
We are happy to announce that our team is now part of the Counteracting accent dIscrimination pRactiCes in Education (CIRCE) project. The project is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme under the Grant Agreement No. 2022-1-IT02-KA220-SCH-000087602 and is coordinated by the University of Siena, Italy, under the scientific responsibility of Prof. Silvia Calamai, University of Siena (Italy) and in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Universität Hamburg (UH, Germany), International Burch University (IBU, Bosnia and Herzegovina), and the University of Évora (Portugal).
For more information, please see here.

Symposium: Global Englishes Language Teaching
1st Annual ELINET Conference
It was a great pleasure attending ELINETs inaugural conference at the University of Glasgow, hosted by Dr. Nicola Galloway and her team.
Ricardo Römhild & Frauke Matz shared insights on how cosmopolitan perspectives can enrich GELT research and practices, and Julia Reckermann & Ricardo Römhild reported on a study of future English teachers’ opinions towards GELT conducted with MEd students at the University of Münster. Thank you to the organizers and hosts for providing this amazing opportunity for exchanging ideas and getting to know scholars from around the world. We are looking forward to seeing Dr. Nicola Galloway and Professor Heath Rose again at the GELT symposium in May.

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Begrüßung und Einführungsveranstaltung

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Congratulations to Dr. Johanna Marks! Her wonderful thesis is now available in print. Visit the publisher's website for details.

Game On: (Digital) Game-Based Language Learning and English Language Education

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Erfolgreiche Disputatio

Ricardo Römhild hat am 02.12.2022 seine Arbeit mit dem Titel "Documentaries for a Change
Cultivating Global Citizenship Education through Eco-Documentaries in the English Language Classroom" erfolgreich verteidigt. Ein besonderer Dank gilt den Betreuer*innen Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz und Prof. Dr. Laurenz Volkmann (Uni Jena), sowie allen Wegbegleiter*innen der letzten Jahre.
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Zweites westfälisches Kolloquium in Paderborn
Am 25.11. trafen sich die Teams der Englischdidaktik der WWU Münster und Universität Paderborn zum gemeinsamen Kolloquium. Ein ganz herzlicher Dank aus Münster geht an das Paderborner Team für die Gastfreundschaft und großartige Organisation. Nach einem Tag voller spannender Debatten, inspirierenden Gesprächen und Austausch freut sich das Team auf eine Fortsetzung im Februar.
Join our MA- colloquium!
We kindly invite you to join our MA- colloquium where you can discuss your own thesis, get helpful feedback and get the opportunity to meet other students who are at the same point of their academic career. If you are interested in participating, please contact mgampert@uni-muenster.de.
The colloquium takes place on the following dates in ES226 from 6.00pm - 7.30pm:
• October 25th 2022 (Kick-off meeting)
• November 15th 2022
• December 6th 2022 (Possible extra meeting)
• December 13th 2022
• January 10th 2023
• January 24th 2023Time to Say Goodbye
We are very sad to say goodbye to our colleagues Naime Zeineddine and Dr. Karoline Wirbatz.
Dr. Karoline Wirbatz has done a fantastic job in the Curriculum 4.0 project where she coordinated, directed and carried out video recordings of nine famous researchers from the ELE context.
Naime Zeineddine has been working with dedication on the QLB project and produced best- practice in- class recordings which add a practical focus to the teacher education at the WWU. The projects contribute to the improvement of the English language teacher education at the WWU. Thank you both for all your hard work and fantastic support of our team. We wish you all the best and you will be missed in our team!Successful SLTED conference in Vienna
© P. Siepmann The international Second Language Teacher Education congress 2022 in Vienna brought together researchers from around the world to discuss salient issues in developing teacher professionality. The English Language Education team contributed six papers to the conference: Jens-Folkert Folkerts presented his design-based research project on listening comprehension and, in a second talk in cooperation with Philipp Siepmann, discussed implications of the researchers' two practice-led projects for developing specific language assessment literacy to prepare (prospective) teachers for constructing and assessing listening comprehension tests and oral communication exams in the foreign language classroom. Joined by Frauke Matz, Marius Ritter presented results from his Ph.D. project on fostering teachers' professional vision using classroom videographies. Anika Marxl initiated a lively discussion in the panel by drawing attention to the need for multimodal mediation competences in the global and digital age. Together with Ricardo Römhild, she presented a second talk. Our doctoral students raised the issue of teaching critical discourse competence, thereby (re-)considering the primary goal of language education. Finally, Frauke Matz contributed to our friend Werner Delanoy's symposium and presented her take on the question 'Quo Vadis Cultural Learning and Language Education?'. Besides these contributions, the networking opportunities made our team's field trip to Vienna a big success.
Webinar: Critical Media Literacy – free registration
Dr. Jeff Share (UCLA) offers 5 webinars on critical media literacy. Registration is free, so if you're interested in learning more about this subject from one of the leading experts in the field, sign up! The webinars will take place between 1 am–2.30 am CET.
New teaching strategies: Spotlight Lectures Part 9 is a wrap
© K. Wirbatz Today we welcomed Michael Rogge (ZfsL Gelsenkirchen) with his take on Agile Learning in the foreign language classroom. He emphasised the importance of a proactive pedagogical change in the modern classroom to adapt to a changing living environment. With the advent of online knowledge data bases, AI and similar technologies, factual knowledge is becoming less important and human competencies are becoming increasingly more important. The development of such competencies must be encouraged and sustained by teachers and through more student-centred activities.
Check out our project-website for further details
DGFF Kongress 2023
Der 30. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung wird 2023 unter dem Titel "Grenzen - Grenzräume - Entgrenzungen" an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg im Breisgau stattfinden. Auf der DGFF Kongress Webseite können Sie weitere Informationen zum Call for Papers und der Anmeldung finden.
Die DGFF Nachwuchstagung 2023 wird am 16. und 17. März hier an der WWU stattfinden. Weitere Informationen zur Nachwuchstagung "Findungsphasen" finden Sie hier.New lecture recorded: Interesting insights about Critical Media Literacy
l. t. r.: Ricardo Römhild, Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz, Diego Share, Dr. Jeff Share© F. Matz On August 1st we had the honours to record yet another digital lecture for our Curriculum 4.0/ Spotlight series project. Dr. Jeff Share of the UCLA shared with us the main concepts and practical steps of how to engage critically with all kinds of modern media in the English language classroom. Due to his own earlier work experience as a professional photographer and a primary school teacher it was a very informative mix of personal viewing points and the scholastic works of this field he has been studying in for years. We would like to thank Mr. Share for his time and effort and we are looking forward to providing students with this helpful material!
Check out his teaser on our project websiteOut now!
Becker, D., Ludwig, C., and Summer, T. (2022). Taboos in ELT through the lens of critical pedagogy: A short Introduction. Teacher Development Academic Journal 2(2), 9-16.
Read more on Daniel Becker's website or go to the publisher's website (link to publication).
DBR Symposium was a success
© F. Matz On last Friday, 10th June, our symposium on the topic of "design based research" finally took place. We are very utterly thankful for this great success with our second in-person symposium after the long Covid-break and want to kindly thank all the participants for their support!
We experienced a very interesting portfolio of keynotes who showed us the variety of this relatively new methodological approach. Thanks a lot to our fantastic keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Susan McKenney and all the other speakers for their insightful and really interesting contributions.
It’s been lovely having you again in our department and we hope to see you all soon again.
If you are interested in the event, make sure to visit the DBR symposium websiteUpcoming Event
Symposium: Design-Based Research in English Language Education
Design-Based Research (DBR) has already become a fixed branch of research in many areas in recent years. In the context of foreign language education, there are already individual projects based on DBR principles, but there is a lack of a systematic methodological discourse. The symposium organized by the Chair of English Language Education aims to provide an impetus for a DBR network in foreign language research.
For more information visit the DBR Symposium Website.
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Der Übergang von der Primar- in die Sekundarstufe im Fach Englisch - eine Frage der Einstellung?
Author: Dr. Rebecca Schlieckmann
Read more on the publisher's website.Out Now!
Focus on Video Games and English Language Education/Designing Hybrid Learning Spaces.
Focus Editors: Daniel Becker and Frauke Matz
We are very excited to announce that the new Anglistik issue has finally been published. Daniel Becker and Frauke Matz would love to thank all authors for their insightful contributions and the editorial team for all their patience and wonderful support. You can access this open access issue via this link: Anglistik 33 (2022), Issue 1© ELE Symposium: Reading YA Literature in the EFL Classroom and Beyond
On Friday, 20th May, our YA symposium took place. It was the first onsite event after a long time and we would love to thank Professor Corinna Norrick Rühl and the Book Studies Department for this amazing cooperation.
We would also love to thank our fantastic keynotes (Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Alison Waller, and Werner Delanoy) and all speakers for their insightful and really interesting contributions.
To our guests: It’s been lovely having you again in our department and we hope to see you all soon again.
If you are interested in the event, make sure to visit the YA symposium website!
DGFF Nachwuchstagung 2023
Das gesamte Team der Fachdidaktik Englisch freut sich sehr, die nächste DGFF Nachwuchstagung ausrichten zu dürfen.
Organisiert wird die Tagung von Naime Zeineddine, den Doktorand*innen Stewart Campbell, Jens-Folkert Folkerts, Anika Marxl, Marius Ritter, Ricardo Römhild sowie den Post-Docs Daniel Becker, Rebecca Schlieckmann, Philipp Siepmann und Karoline Wirbatz. Tagungspräsidentinnen sind Frauke Matz & Julia Reckermann.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie im Frühjahr unter DGFF auf dieser Webseite.
© ELE Panel Discussion on Global Citizenship Education - A Full Success!
Panel Discussion on Global Citizenship Education
Panel Discussion with William Gaudelli and Frauke Matz – Im Rahmen der Vorlesung Selected Aspects of SLA/ELT findet am 04. Mai 2022 eine Podiumsdiskussion mit William Gaudelli (Lehigh University) und Frauke Matz (WWU) zum Thema Global Citizenship Education statt.
Wann? – 04.05.2022, 16:00-18:00Uhr
Wo? – Fürstenberghaus, F51. Westfälisches Kolloquium der Fachdidaktik Englisch
Wir haben uns sehr gefreut, am 29.04.2022 die Doktorand*innen und Postdocs von Professor Dominik Rumlich und Peter Hohwiller bei uns am Englischen Seminar begrüßen zu können. Nach der langen Pandemiezeit haben wir uns endlich zum 1. Westfälischen Kolloquium der Fachdidaktik Englisch treffen können. Das persönliche Kennenlernen und der fachliche Austausch über die unterschiedlichen Forschungsprojekte sowie der ‚Walk and Talk‘ durch den botanischen Garten der WWU war für uns alle sehr bereichernd und beide Nachwuchsteams freuen sich schon auf den nächsten Austausch, der dann im Herbst an der Universität Paderborn stattfinden wird. Wir bedanken uns ganz herzlich für den Besuch!
© ELE It's a wrap: New Curriculum 4.0 session with Prof. Strasser and Prof. Schmidt
We are pleased to announce that both Prof. Dr. Thomas Strasser of the University college of teacher education Vienna and Prof. Dr. Torben Schmidt of the Leuphana University Lüneburg joined our Curriculum 4.0 project with their take on "I'm going DeepL underground... AI-powered learning. Potentials and limitations". Their presentation gave an overview of the genesis of AI technology in general and the influences it has had already and will inevitably have on language learning and language teaching in the future. Apart from that the two lecturers also shed a light on the rather philosophical question of how the improvement of AI will reduce or enhance the importance of human professions such as the English language teacher.
Join our MA-colloquium
Are you writing your MA-thesis in English language education at the moment, or are you thinking about doing so in the near future?
If so, the ELE team of the WWU Münster would like to invite you to join our MA-colloquium. The colloquium is open for all MA-students and aims at offering you:- an opportunity to present your work in progress to your fellow students and lecturers
- individualised feedback on your work in progress
- an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with other MA-thesis candidates
- general input on how to write your MA-thesis
For more information take a look at the poster!
Workshops - Summer Term 2022
Are you writing your BA or Med thesis in English Language Education this semester? - Then sign up for our workshops!
- „Ich muss jetzt echt mal anfangen" - wissenschaftliches Schreiben meistern
31.05.2022, 18:00-19:30, ES3
(Marius Ritter) - How (not) to write your BA/MEd thesis
28.06.2022, 18:00-19:30, ES3
(Ricardo Römhild)
Information on how to register can be found on the poster.
Currciulum 4.0 project: New session recorded
Professor Carolyn Blume, TU Dortmund, supported our Curriculum 4.0 project with her inspiring presentation on “How to Make the EFL Classroom More Inclusive?”. In this wonderful spotlight lecture she speaks about different possibilities on making texts more accessible for all learners. She also touches the topics of diversity of gender and religion. It was wonderful having her and we would love to thank her again for her participation.
10. Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen
© Matz Am 02.03.22 fand der 10. Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen des Forums Fremdsprachendidaktik unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz statt. Herr Henrichs von der Bezirksregierung Münster sowie Dr. Martin Jungwirth von unserem ZFL haben auf eine besondere Weise die Veranstaltung mit ihren Grußworten eingeleitet, für die wir uns ganz herzlichen bedanken möchten.
Den Auftaktvortrag zum Thema Mündlichkeit hielt Professorin Bärbel Diehr von der Universität Wuppertal und es gab insgesamt 11 Workshops für den Fremdsprachenunterricht aller Schulstufen. Unser Dank gilt daher auch allen Workshopleiter*innen und Frau Professorin Diehr für ihre hervorragenden Beiträge.
Das Interesse an diesem digitalen Fachtag war mit insgesamt 234 Anmeldungen wieder groß und wir möchten uns ganz herzlich für die rege Teilnahme, die Diskussionen und den Austausch bedanken!
Wir freuen uns wirklich sehr, dass einmal im Jahr so zahlreich Ausbildende und Auszubildende aller Schulformen zu diesem Fachtag an der WWU zusammenkommen und freuen uns schon auf den nächsten Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen am 01.03.2023.
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© ADiBE Project New Publication
© Narr. Out Now! - Videospiele im Fremdsprachenunterricht
© Frauke Matz ELE QLB@ZfsL Gelsenkirchen
© ELE DGFF Nachwuchspreis - Johanna Marks
© ELE TOOLS - Multiplier Event on 4th October 2021
Virtual Exchange Münster-Hyogo
As part of a virtual exchange program between the Hyogo University of Teacher Education (Japan) and the WWU, Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz & Marius Ritter were invited to provide insight into the research on teacher professionalisation taking place in the QLB-Project “Videobasierte Lehrmodule”. Due to the pandemic, the event took place virtually, which was no detriment to the enlightening talks and fruitful discussions. We are very thankful to Martin Jungwirth and his team at the ZFL for the opportunity to share our research with international partners.
© Jonas Schlieckmann Welcome Rebecca Schlieckmann!
© ELE Report on the International Symposium „Fostering and Assessing Oracy in Foreign Language Education: Perspectives from Practice-Oriented and Design-Based Research”
© ELE Presentation of the ADiBE project outputs at the CLIL 2021 Webinar in Sheffield, UK
Symposium - Fostering and Assessing Oracy in Foreign Language Education: Perspectives from Practice-Oriented and Design-Based Research
This one-day symposium will bring together researchers who follow a practice-oriented and/or design-based approach to researching oracy in foreign language learning.
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Anne Burns, University of NSW, Australia
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Diehr, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Prof. Dr. Susan McKenney, UT Twente, NetherlandsResearch Cluster – Ausschreibung von studentischen Abschlussarbeiten: Didaktik der Beruflichen Bildung & Fremdsprachendidaktik
Wir suchen interessierte BK Studierende, die uns in dem Bemühen, eine engere Verzahnung zwischen der Beruflichen Bildung und der Fremdsprachendidaktik unterstützen würden. Angehängt finden Sie eine Ausschreibung und wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn Sie uns bei Interesse kontaktieren könnten.
Mehr Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte folgender PDF Datei zur Ausschreibung von studentischen Abschlussarbeiten [de].
Fortbildungstag der Qualitätsgruppe Englisch der Bezirksregierung Münster
Am 10.03.2021 veranstaltete die Qualitätsgruppe Englisch der Bezirksregierung Münster unter Leitung von Frau Heiny (BZR Münster) einen Fortbildungstag mit dem Schwerpunkt Testung von Hörverstehen. Frauke Matz, Julia Reckermann und Jens Folkerts (ELE-WWU) unterstützten die Fortbildung durch einen Impulsvortrag zu theoretischen Grundlagen sowie zwei Workshops zu Hörverstehen in der Sekundarstufe I bzw. Sekundarstufe II. Wir bedanken uns für diese Möglichkeit und freuen uns über die Fortsetzung der Kooperation.
© Englisches Seminar Erfolgreicher digitaler Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen
© Jens Folkert Welcome Jens Folkerts!
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© Stewart Campbell Welcome, Stewart Campbell!
© Uni MS Designservice; Pixabay, Julia Binder, Westfälische Salzwelten Gewinner des wwu citizen science Publikumspreises!
Das Siegerprojekt „Peer-to-Peer-Videos im bilingualen Unterricht“ basiert auf einer Kooperation zwischen Jun.-Prof. Julia Reckermann und dem Arbeitskreis Bilingual des St.-Antonius Gymnasiums in Lüdinghausen. Bei den Peer-to-Peer-Videos handelt es sich um Filme, die in den zweisprachig unterrichteten Fächern Biologie und Geschichte der Mittelstufe von und für Schülerinnen und Schüler entwickelt wurden. Die Forschungsfrage des Projekts lautet: Inwieweit bieten diese Videos vielfältige fremdsprachliche, inhaltliche sowie digitale Lerngelegenheiten? Die Schüler recherchieren und strukturieren die Inhalte, um sie in Form eines Videos aufzubereiten. Die Videos werden mit den schuleigenen iPads angefertigt und auf der schulinternen Lernplattform gespeichert. Von dort können die Schüler sie im Rahmen unterschiedlicher Lerngelegenheiten nutzen. Ziel ist es, das Potenzial sowie die Erfolgsbedingungen von Peer-to-Peer-Videos für den bilingualen Sachfachunterricht herauszuarbeiten.
Das Video finden Sie auf der Seite von Jun.-Prof. Julia Reckermann.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie auch auf der Website des wwu citizen science Wettbewerbs.Stellungnahme zur Rückverlegung des Englischunterrichts in Klasse 3 in NRW zum Schuljahr 2021/2022
Das Schulministerium NRW plant mit dem Masterplan Grundschule u.a. eine Rückverlegung des Englischunterrichts von der ersten zurück in die dritte Klasse mit dann drei statt zwei Wochenstunden. Mit dieser Stellungnahme nehmen wir, Professor*innen der Fremdsprachendidaktik in Deutschland, kritisch Stellung zu dieser Entscheidung. Die Stellungnahme wurde Anfang November auf den Websites der Hauptautor*innen, hierunter auch Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Reckermann, veröffentlicht und an mehrere Adressaten gesendet, v.a.: NRW Schulministerin Yvonnen Gebauer, NRW Landtagsfraktionsvorsitzende aller Parteien, Landespressekonferenz Düsseldorf. In Folge sind mehrere Zeitungsartikel erschienen, v.a.: Kölner Stadtanzeiger (04.11.2020) und WAZ (10.11.2020).
Die Stellungnahme können Sie hier als pdf Datei runterladen und nachlesen.© Frauke Matz TOOLS: Keeping up the good work
© Sperlinger Welcome Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Reckermann!
New internship opportunity at Trinity College, Dublin
Detailed information
Questions and applications to:
Katrin Eberbach eberback and Ricardo Römhild ricardo.roemhild© Prof. Frauke Matz TOOLS Kick-off Meeting
© Prof. Frauke Matz A warm welcome to the ADiBE-Team!
© Englisches Seminar Olumide Popoola’s Creative Writer’s Talk
© Sperlinger Welcome Marius Ritter!