Profile

Occupation

Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (language practice and applied linguistics):

• 50% in the teaching unit Foreign Language Education in Primary School (since 2006, tenured since 2009)
• 50% in the teaching unit English and American Studies (since 2009, tenured since 2010)

Education

Degrees conferred by the University of Koblenz-Landau (campus Koblenz):

• Dr. phil. in English studies (linguistics), 2009
• Magister artium with the main subject English studies and the minor subjects mathematics and physics, 2006
• 1^st state examination for teaching English and mathematics at German upper-intermediate secondary schools, 2005

Teaching

Language practice and applied linguistics

Module 4 Primary School Education

• both lectures (Applied Linguistics and Language Practice)
• both tutorials that complement the lectures (several groups)

Module 2 English and American Studies

• usually exclusively Language Course 2 (M2.2)

Research

As an LfbA I do not have any research responsibilities.

The term Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (LfbA) denotes an academic position with a high teaching load, typically 16 hours per week, as opposed to 8 hours for research associates (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen). All literal English translations of LfbA, e.g. lecturer for special tasks, are obscure and unidiomatic. Even in German the term represents a specialist vocabulary item of the semantic field "German university system".