Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet
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Institutional mailing address
Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn
Office phone & email
Phone: 0228-73-9023
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Office hours (room 2-016):
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1 Academic CV
1976 | First State Exam in English and German |
1978 | "Calibri, serif">Second State Exam, Teaching Degree for lower and upper secondary stage (Gymnasium) |
1993 - 1997 | Teacher Trainer for English in Trier, Germany (Gymnasium, lower and upper secondary stage) |
2002 | PhD degree, University of Lueneburg |
1997 - 2004 | Head of Auguste Victoria Gymnasium Trier, Germany, Bilingual School, International School for Education of the Gifted |
2004 - 2018 | Professor of Teaching English – Language, Literature and Culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
2006 - 2017 | Founding Member of the Executive Board of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen (German Excellence Initiative) and Head of the GCSC Teaching Centre |
2018 - 2022 |
Founding member of the Steering Committee of the national research cluster "Leistung macht Schule" ('excellence in school education') and head of the Teaching English as a Foreign Language project
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Visiting Scholar | |
2007 | Saint Mary's University Halifax, Canada |
2012 | Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal |
2015 |
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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2 Research Interests
TEFL
Studying and teaching literature and culture
Literature and cognition
Literary competences
Cultural learning
Genre theory, social semiotics and genre learning
The multimodality of communication and multiliteracies
Complex tasks and talent development
Literary studies
Space in literary texts
Intermediality and a methodology of intermediality
Literature and culture, the contextualization of literary texts (methodology)
The multimodal novel
The Study of Culture
Cultural theory
Theories and concepts of space
Semiotic theories of culture
Culture and surveillance
3 Blog
Hallet's Language Learning Blog: LanguageLearningLog.de
4 Recent and current PhD projects (first supervisor)
Completed
Anteneh Tsegaye Ayalew (2008). An Integrative Approach to Intercultural Communication in Context: Empirical Evidences from Higher Education.
Melani Nekić (2013). Cultural Fields of Activities in Multimodal Texts. An Analysis of Croatian and Scottish Tourism Websites.
Judith Hofmann: Cartoons, Kultur, Curriculum - Eine qualitativ-empirische Studie zum Potenzial von Animationsfilmen im Englischunterricht. (2015)
Alexander Matschi (2016). Narrating Space and Motion in Contemporary Asian British Novels: A Cultural Narratology of Motion.
Silke Braselmann: Approaching the Inexplicable. The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse. (2017). (Bonn University graduate; Deutscher Studienpreis of the Körber Foundation 2018)
Roger Dale Jones: Developing Video Game Literacy in the EFL Classroom. A Qualitative Analysis of 10th Grade Classroom Game Discourse. (2017)
Lei Huang: Communication between Chinese students and German university teachers in academic settings. (2018)
Gisela Mayr: Aufgabenorientierung und Mehrsprachigkeit. Eine unterrichtsempirische Studie zur Modellierung mehrsprachiger kommunikativer Kompetenz in der Sekundarstufe II. (2019)
Christine Zingerle: Literatur im fremdsprachlichen Englischunterricht aus Sicht der Lehrenden. Eine qualitativ-empirische Studie Südtiroler Englischlehrender. (2019)
Lisa Bach: Spatial Belonging. Approaching Aboriginal Australian Space in Contemporary Fiction (2020).
Laura Schlichting: Authorship in Comics Journalism. (2020)
Verena Fries: Begriffsbildung und die Entwicklung fremdsprachiger Diskursfähigkeit im bilingualen Sachfachunterricht. (2021)
Sarianna Kankkunen: Harassing Habitats. Experienced Space in Maarit Verronen's Prose Fiction. (2021)
Nevena Stamenkovic: Mehrsprachiges Lernen im fremdsprachlichen Literaturunterricht. (2022)
Ongoing (working titles)
Elena Eich: Komplexe Kompetenzaufgaben im Englischunterricht- Eine qualitative Längsschnittstudie zu Kompetenzentwicklungsprozessen bei Lernenden und Lehrenden.
Verena Fries: Begriffsbildung und die Entwicklung fremdsprachiger Diskursfähigkeit im bilingualen Sachfachunterricht.
Sarianna Kankkunen: Harassing Habitats. Experienced Space in Maarit Verronen's Prose Fiction.
Jan Simon Schäfer: Begabungserkennung und -förderung im aufgabenbasierten Englischunterricht.
Laura Schlichting: Authorship in Comics Journalism.
Nevena Stamenkovic: Mehrsprachiges Lernen im fremdsprachlichen Literaturunterricht.
5 Selected Recent Publications