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Research

Current research projects and publications by the section

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet

Hallet's Language Learning Blog: LanguageLearningLog.de

Talent development. Begabungen und Persönlichkeiten im Fremdsprachenunterricht entwickeln. In: Beutel, Silvia-Iris, Kaiser, Michaela, Kohnen, Marcus, Laudenberg, Beate & Rott, David (Hrsg.). Begabungen. Friedrich Jahresheft. Hannover: Friedrich, 2023. 52-53.

Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht. In: König, Lotta, Schädlich, Birgit & Surkamp, Carola (eds.). unterricht_kultur_theorie: Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht gemeinsam anders denken. Berlin: Metzler. 41-56.

M.Ed. Daniel Schönbauer

Teaching Nigeria in the EFL Classroom (PhD Project; working title) (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

New Zealand. Praxis Englisch 1 (2023). Braunschweig: Westermann. (mit Günther Sommerschuh)

Forschendes Lernen im Bilingualen Geschichtsunterricht - Zwischen Hochschuldidaktik und schulbezogener Geschichtsdidaktik. In: Birgit Peuker, Maike Busker, Hanne Rautenstrauch & Jens Winkel (Eds.), Forschendes Lernen in der fach- und fachrichtungsbzeogenen, universitären Lehrkräftebildung. Darmstadt: wbg Academic. (mit Florian Helfer)

Fokus: Exploring the Land of the Long White Cloud. Aotearoa New Zealand im Englischunterricht. In: Praxis Englisch 1(2023), 46-48.

Philipp Reul, OStR

A mobility programme in the Global South - Learning Potentials for German Preservice English Teachers (PhD project; working title) (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Isabel Martin & Prof. Dr. David Gerlach)

Lichterfeld, I., Reul P. & Schönbauer, D.: "Lehramt Englisch: Synergien zwischen Fachdidaktik und Fachwissenschaft". In: R. Ißler, R. Kaenders & S. Stomporowski (Eds.), Fachkulturen in der Lehrerbildung weiterdenken, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2022, 63-87.

Eine Wissenschaftlerin und ein Wissenschaftler arbeiten hinter einer Glasfassade und mischen Chemikalien mit Großgeräten.
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Research projects by former students

B.A. and M.Ed. students are cordially invited to write their theses about a topic related to foreign language eduaction. Topics can be presented and discussed in the colloquium Current Issues in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Supervisors are indicated in brackets.

  • Ackermann, J. (2019). On the Representation of Maori Culture in the Film Whale Rider (2002). (Dr. Hanne Birk & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Albert, L. (2021). Theatre Pedagogy in the Foreign Language Classroom by the Example of Stef Smith's Remote. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Beutner, A. (2019). Teaching Methods and Activities in the EFL Classroom - A Comparison of Teacher Preferences and Teacher Training. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)
  • Böhm, C. (2017). The Potential of Historical Fiction in the Classroom: Analysis of Roddy Doyle's Novel A Star Called Henry. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Deist, A. (2021). Nation, Culture and Conflict. An Analysis of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Denner, L. (2020). Giving a Voice to Minorities and the Environment - Teaching Helon Habila's Oil on Water to Raise an Awareness of Environmental Degradation and a Diverse Society. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Dreyer, L. (2018). An Ecodidactic Reading of Brave New World. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Eberhard, L. (2018). Construction(s) of Caribbean Identity in Selected Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Griese, J. (2021). EFL Meets ELT: English teachers' attitudes towards ELF with reference to creativity and correctness in German schools. (Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Heppelmann, S. (2018). Representations of the Trickster Figure in Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Heuschkel, A. (2019). Investigating the Natural Sequence Hypothesis. A Study of the Acquisition of the Third Person -s Morpheme by German EFL Learners. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)
  • Hollmann, L. I. (2022). Giving Voice to the (Post)Human Clone: Teaching Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Holtmann, N. (2019). The Construction of Otherness in R.J. Palacio's Wonder. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Hopp, J. (2021). "Stop treating me like a baby!" - Coming of Age in R. J. Palacio's Young Adult Novel Wonder. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Jäschke, J. (2017). Heterogeneity in the Classroom: An Analysis of Challenges in TEFL in an 'Internationale Förderklasse'. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Jahnel, N. (2019). National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945) and Harry Potter - an Analysis of the Ideological Similarities. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Jonen, M. (2019). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck in the EFL classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Kemmling, F. (2021). Corpora and teaching English - developing criteria to evaluate corpus-use in the classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)
  • Kostka, S. (2022). On the Representation of Anti-Black Racism and Black Identity in Angi Thomas' Novel The Hate U Give. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Maginot, L. (2018). Racism in selected works of British and American literature. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Maurer, L. K. M. (2021). #BlackLivesMatter - Reading and Teaching Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give in the EFL-Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Oedekoven, J. (2014). Identity in Dystopian Young Adult Literature. (Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp & Bianca Göbler)
  • Patzsch, L. (2020). Diasporic Hybridity in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Rosen, L. (2015). How to Deal with John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in the EFL Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Roth, A. (2020). Bilingual Geography Education: Blessing or Curse? An Analysis of Selected Teacher Beliefs. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)
  • Schmitz, H. L. (2021). Reading and Teaching Nic Stone's Dear Martin in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Schüller, T. (2018). Stolen Generation Experiences in Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Schröder, L. (2022). Reading and Teaching Postcolonial Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Tary, A. (2018). Representations of the American Dream in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Tüptük, A.-D. (2018). The (Over-)Emphasis on Physical Attractiveness in Disney's Cinderella and Classical Fairy Tales. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • von Tongelen, B. (2015). The Impact of Globalisation on the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. (Prof. Dr. Uwe Küchler & Bianca Göbler)
  • Vaupel, A. (2022). Attitudes to Sprechhemmung in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)
  • Weinreiß, M. (2015). The Hunger Games trilogy as an important contribution to the understanding and awareness of war for young adults. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Albert, L. (2023). Beyond the Surface: Exploring Intercultural Perspectives on Australia Day in the Classroom - A Case Study. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Banning, L. (2021). Reading and Teaching Nigerian Diasporic Experiences in selected short stories by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Becker, A. (2016). Teaching the Gothic - Suggestions for including British and American Gothic literature in the modern EFL classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Behrami, V. (2021). Reading and Teaching and Cultural Identities: Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Berk, B (2022). English Teachers’ Attitudes towards their respective Codeswitching in EFL Classrooms: A Standalone Observation an Juxtaposition with Teacher Reflections and Teacher Interviews. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & PD Dr. Elisabeth Reber)
  • Bieling, D. (2020). Potenziale und Grenzen des bilingualen Geschichtsunterrichts am Beispiel der südafrikanischen Apartheid. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Peter Geiss)
  • Blödorn, F. (2021). A postcolonial reading of Tochi Onyebuchi's War Girls. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Böhm. C. (2019). Global Learning in the EFL Classroom: A Qualitative Study on the Possibilities and Challenges of Integrating the Concept into Regular School Education. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Julia Hüttner)
  • Breil. C. (2023). Reading and Teaching Ecocriticism in Tochi Onyebuchi's Afrodystopian Novel War Girls. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Büttgen, C. (2020). Searching for Identity - Reading and Teaching Postcolonial India through the Movie English Vinglish. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Commer, L. (2020). Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Daas, S. (2021). Intercultural Communicative Competence in EFL textbooks: An Analysis of Cornelsen's Access 1. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Daniels, A. (2020). Investigating the Introduction of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Dresen, A. (2020). Reading and teaching the ménage à trois in Shakespeare's sonnets. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Freels, L. (2022). Akwaeke Emezi's The Death of Vivek Oji in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Gerwing, C. (2020). 'Once upon a time they lived in paradise‘ – Teaching environmental awareness using Helon Habila’s Oil on Water. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Gibbs, A. (2023). Reading and Teaching Postcolonial Identity Constructions in selected short stories by Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)
  • Glaeser, L. L. (2021). An Afrofuturistic Reading and Teaching of Star Trek: Discovery. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Gnech, S. (2020). The fear of the inescapable and the dream of the unachievable - Representations of death and immortality in the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and J.R. Rowling. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Grimm, L. S. (2022). Learning from Nigeria: Teaching Global Citizenship Education in the EFL Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Jahnel, N. (2021). Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale - A Dystopia in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Haeusler, S. (2020). 'The American Dream' in F.S. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - A TEFL-perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Hauschild, M. J. (2019). Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Hanrath, V. (2020). Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go in the EFL Classroon. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Harzem, S. (2020). Contemporary Anglophone Canadian Short Fiction in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)
  • Herda, F. (2019). Reading and Teaching Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Holtmann, N. (2022). The Role of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education in the EFL Textbook Camden Town 5 - a Case Study. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Hopp, J. (2020). Gender-sensitive Dystopian Teenage Fiction. Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Hosni, S. (2022). Nation and Identity in Post-Colonial Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Hüttemann, J. (2019). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a mediator of values in foreign language classes. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Jäschke, J. (2019). Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Kersten, L. (2023). Reading and Teaching Negotiations of Afropolitan-Nigerian Identities in selected poetic texts. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Klein, M. (2019). The Introduction of Varieties of English in selected EFL Textbooks - a Case Study. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Klein, H. (2021). Teacher attitudes towards English spelling varieties - British and American spelling in the German EFL classroom. (Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Kurz, A.-K. (2020). Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Kühsel, R. (2021). Framing and Challenging Narratives of Race and Identity: Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Lichtenhahn, L. (2022). Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Loch, M. (2022). Reading and Teaching Postcolonial Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Meier, J. (2018). The Trickster Figure in Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Michels, J. (2019). Reading and Teaching 'FIctions of Memory' in the EFL Classroom - An Analysis of Chris Cleave's The Other Hand. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Moor, T. (2016). The Perks of Young Adult Literature - Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Mosca, N. (2024). Reading and Teaching Young Adult Dystopia in the EFL Classroom: Lois Lowry's The Giver. (M.Ed. Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)
  • Müntel, A. (2020). John Greens The Fault in Our Stars in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Neumann, N. (2021). 'America was never America to me'. Reading and Teaching the African-American Dream in Langston Hughes's poetry". (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Nienaber, S. (2019). How do teachers explain unknown words? An observation study of a comparison of vocabulary introduction in a CLIL and an EFL classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)
  • Oder, A. (2023). The transition between elementary school and secondary school in the EFL classroom - A case study on the students' perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Patzsch, L. (2022). Teaching Katori Hall's The Mountaintop from an anti-racist pedagogy perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Quarz, M.-J. (2021). Reading & Teaching Afrofantasy in the EFL Classroom (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Renn, F. (2021). An Ecodidactic Reading of Tolkien. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Richartz, F. (2018). Reading and Teaching Indian Diasporic Short Fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Richartz, L. (2020). Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in the EFL classroom (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Roth, A. (2022). The progression of code-switching in bilingual geography education. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Röttger, L. (2021). Shakespeare's Othello in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Ruppert, L. (2021). Saci Llyod's The Carbon Diaries in the EFL Classroom (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich). 
  • Sampels, C. (2020). Study Trips in the EFL Classroom: Just a fun trip or more? (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Schaffer, C. (2019). Oral Corrective Feedback in the EFL Classroom - An Empirical Investigation of Forms- and Message-Focussed Phases of EFL Lessons. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)
  • Schulz, S. (2020). Lois Lowry's The Giver - A Comparison of Reading Traditional Novels and Graphic Novels within the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Schüller, T. (2020). Experience of Growing up in Chimamandna Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Schüttler, B. (2021). New Female Role Model and the Aspect of Hope in Youngd Adult Dystopian Literature - Katniss, Lena & Tris - Heroines for the Younger Generation? (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Schützeichel, D. (2016). Individualisierung im Unterricht: Wie fördern Lehrkräfte ihre Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Praxis? (PD Dr. Udo Käser & Bianca Göbler)
  • Schwickert, K. C. (2019). Teaching Ecocriticism. The Use of Saci Llyod's The Carbon Diaries 2015 in the EFL Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer) 
  • Siebert, L. (2019). The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian. A Literary Implementation of Intercultural Competence in Schools in Accordance with the Curriculum of North Rhine-Westphalia. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Stamm, K. (2021). Reading Identity Construction(s) in Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Steglich, F. (2023). Reading and Teaching Representation(s) of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Stümper, R. (2020). Selected diasporic short stories by Chimamanda Adichie in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Tary, A. (2021). Representation(s) of fantasy elements in selected pieces of children's literature - a comparative perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Tüptük, A.-D. (2021). Teaching Shakespearean Tragedy in the EFL Classroom with the Example of Othello. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Ullah, S. (2018). Stereotypes in German EFL teaching materials on Hanif Kureishi's "My Son the Fanatic" and Qaisra Shahraz's "A Pair of Jeans" (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Untch, N. (2019). The Effects of Text Simplification on Students' Reading Comprehension. (Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • vom Feld, L. (2021). Teaching Metropolitanism in Welcome to Lagos. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Wagner, L. (2020). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Walter, N. (2021). Teaching multiethnic and multicultural Nigeria in the EFL classroom. (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)
  • Wiese, M. (2020). Nic Stone's Dear Martin in the EFL classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)
  • Zocha, A. (2016). Underrated Irishness? Ways of Teaching the Culture of the Republic of Ireland in the EFL Classroom. Methods and Material for Advanced Learners. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)
  • Altendorf, L. (2022). Exploring the connection between extramural online activities, lexical diversity, and errors in German upper grade students. (Applied Linguistics / Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)