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I am full professor of Applied Linguistics and TEFL at the English Department of the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.

My main research and teaching areas are as follows:

Research Areas:

  • Teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) to Young Learners
  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  • Language Teacher Education
  • Plurilingualism in the EFL Classroom
  • Virtual Exchange in the EFL Classroom
  • Virtual Exchange in Language Teacher Education

Teaching Areas:

  • Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Task-Based Language Learning (TBLL)
  • Bilingualism/Multilingualism
  • Inclusion in the EFL Classroom
  • Language Learner Strategies and Learner Autonomy
  • English Literacy Studies
  • Linguistics (phonetics & phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics)
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Second Language Acquisition Theories
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies