Research areas & interests
Classroom Discourse
Pragmatics in Language Teaching
Content and Language Integrated Learning
Intercultural Learning
Videography of English language Teaching
Language of Writing Workshops
Conference Presentations
April 2014: 19th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA (paper)
March 2014: Supporting English Writing Competencies: The Role of Writing Centers for Second Language Writing, Leuphana University Lüneburg (paper).
September 2013: Teacher's Day, University of Saarbruecken, Germany;
25. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF), University of Augsburg, Germany (participation)
October 2011: GeWiss Symposium (Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache kontrastiv), University of Leipzig, Germany (invited talk)
March 2010: 11. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Hamburg, Germany (paper)
July 2010: International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA10), University of Mannheim, Germany (poster)
January 2009: Teacher - Student Interaction at University: The Discourse of Academic Office Hours. Talk at the Research Colloquium of the English Department, University of Oldenburg, Germany. (Abstract)
March 2009: Arbeitstagung Linguistische Pragmatik 2009; 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), University of Osnabrück, Germany
[Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society] (attendance)
April 2009: i-mean (Meaning and Interaction), University of the West of England, Bristol, GB (paper)
June 2009: 5th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse (CIRD), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (paper)
September 2009: 2nd International Workshop on Discourse and Organizations (DiO), University of Ghent, Belgium (paper)
October 2009: 2. Nordwestdeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NWLK), Jacobs University Bremen, Germany (attendance)
April 2008: 17th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SS17), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (paper)
August 2008: 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics by the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Essen, Germany. (paper co-presented with Magdalène Lévy-Tödter, University of Hamburg)
September 2008: University Office Hours: Interaction - Socialization - Practice. Talk at the Corpus Analysis Group of the English Language Institute (ELI), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
January 2007: (Anéla): Applied Linguistics: a new generation. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. (paper)
July 2007: 10th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Göteborg, Sweden. (paper)
November 2007: Hochschulische Kommunikation - Kommunikative Prozesse zwischen wissenschaftlichen Anforderungen und didaktischen Notwendigkeiten. Muenster, Germany. (paper)
July 2006: Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness: Confrontation and Conflict in Discourse (LIAR), Huddersfield, UK. (paper)
September 2006: 5th International Conference AELFE: Academic and Professional Communication in the 21st Century: Genres and Rhetoric in the Construction of Disciplinary Knowledge, Zaragoza, Spain. (paper)
September 2006: 37. Jahrestagung GAL mit dem Schwerpunkt 'Globalisierung', Münster, Germany. (attendance)
March 2005: Politeness: Multidisciplinary Perspective on Language and Culture, Nottingham, UK. (poster)
April 2005: 11. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung, Mannheim, Germany. (attendance)
Mai 2005: 36. Arbeitskreis Angewandte Gesprächsforschung (AAG), Cologne, Germany. (attendance)
July 2005: 9th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Riva del Garda, Italy. (paper)
May 2004: 2nd Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitve and Social Pragmatics (EPICS II), Seville, Spain. (paper)
Sept. 2004: International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender (CLPG), Helsinki, Finland. (paper)
Sept. 2003: Conference on the Pragmatics of InterLanguage English (ConPILE), Muenster, Germany. (organization)