Aeras of expertise

• Post-doctoral researcher
• Lecturer for English language teaching methodology
• Instructor at the FHNW Institute for Continuing Education and Counseling
• Supervising bachelor theses
• Supervising teacher candidates during school placements
• Consultancy services to publishers of course books

Lectures and seminars

English language teaching methodology
- Introduction to teaching English at primary school
- Current approaches to teaching English at primary school

Language and language learning
- Introduction to English linguistics, language learning and teaching

Supervising school placements
- Student teaching seminar: Initial school placement
- Student teaching seminar: Teaching foreign languages
- Mentoring program for teacher candidates

Research and development
- Introduction to scientific work and research

Continuing education (selection)
- The role of language resources in competency-based foreign language teaching
- Teaching writing in the primary school foreign language classroom
- From input to output: The L-I-O model and its role in promoting communicative language competence in foreign language learning
- One-to-one counseling for English teachers

Employments

Education

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Research projects

Pilot study "Sprachenübergreifende Förderung von Schreibkompetenz"
A pilot study carried out to investigate the transfer of genre-specific skills and writing strategies between languages when teaching writing in the foreign languages English and French.
Duration: 2022 - 2023

TrACE TEPS – Training Assessment Competencies for Teaching English at Primary School
A post-doctoral research project tied to the SNSF project TrACE to promote the assessment competencies of trainee primary school English language teachers. Supported by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and SwissUniversities (PgB P-9 TP2a).
Duration: 2021 - 2025

TrACE – Training Assessment Competencies in English as a Second Language
Research project to promote the assessment competencies of (trainee) English language teachers. A bi-national co-operation project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, the Zurich University of Teacher Education and the Institute for Psychology of Learning and Instruction (IPL) at Kiel University, Germany. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF and the German Research Foundation DFG.
Duration: 2021 - 2024
https://p3.snf.ch/project-197968

«eRubrix – Englische E-Mails schreiben»
Research project to investigate the effectiveness of rubric-based feedback when writing semi-formal emails in English as a foreign language at lower secondary level. A bi-national co-operation project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in Kiel, funded by the Jacobs Foundation Switzerland.
Laufzeit: 2020 - 2022
https://www.fhnw.ch/de/forschung-und-dienstleistungen/paedagogik/institut-sekundarstufe-i-und-ii/rubrics-englische-emails-schreiben

An Empirical Study of EFL Writing at Primary School
PhD project conducted at the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Basel under Prof Dr Stefan Keller, supported by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and the Aebli-Näf Foundation, Burgdorf.
Duration: 2016 - 2021
Publication: https://doi.org/10.24053/9783823395430 (open access)

SEPS - Schreiben im Englischunterricht an der Primarschule
‘They can't do that (yet)?’ - Options for an age-appropriate approach to teaching writing in primary school English language classes. A research project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, supported by the Department of Education, Culture and Sport of the Canton of Aargau.
Duration: 2015 - 2017

Further projects

Consultancy for the revision of the course book New World 1/2 for English as a second foreign language at primary school (Klett und Balmer)
Duration: 2022 - 2025

Consultancy for the development of the course book Double Decker (revision of Here Comes Super Bus and Top deck)
The Chair for English Language Teaching advised on the revision of the course books Here Comes Super Bus and Top deck (Macmillan Education) and piloted the materials.
Duration: 2015 - 2019

HiStory: Everyday Life in the Middle Ages
Development of an English workshop for 5^th- and 6^th-grade learners at Hallwyl Castle. A joint project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and the Museum Aargau, supported by Swisslos.
Duration: 2014 - 2016
https://www.museumaargau.ch/schloss-hallwyl/event/377

Begleitprojekt «Einführung Englisch an der Primarstufe im Kanton Aargau»
Support project during the introduction of English as a new school subject at primary school in the canton of Aargau. A joint project of the Department of Education, Culture and Sport of the Canton of Aargau and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.
Duration: 2008 - 2011