Research

Research Projects by the Section

BA and MEd students are cordially invited to write their theses about a topic related to foreign language eduaction. Topics can be presented and discussed in the colloquium Current Issues in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Supervisors are indicated in brackets.

Bachelor of Arts

Ackermann, J. (2019). On the Representation of Maori Culture in the Film Whale Rider (2002). (Dr. Hanne Birk & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Albert, L. (2021). Theatre Pedagogy in the Foreign Language Classroom by the Example of Stef Smith's Remote. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Beutner, A. (2019). Teaching Methods and Activities in the EFL Classroom - A Comparison of Teacher Preferences and Teacher Training. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)

Böhm, C. (2017). The Potential of Historical Fiction in the Classroom: Analysis of Roddy Doyle's Novel A Star Called Henry. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)

Deist, A. (2021). Nation, Culture and Conflict. An Analysis of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Denner, L. (2020). Giving a Voice to Minorities and the Environment - Teaching Helon Habila's Oil on Water to Raise an Awareness of Environmental Degradation and a Diverse Society. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Dreyer, L. (2018). An Ecodidactic Reading of Brave New World. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Eberhard, L. (2018). Construction(s) of Caribbean Identity in Selected Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Griese, J. (2021). EFL Meets ELT: English teachers' attitudes towards ELF with reference to creativity and correctness in German schools. (Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Heppelmann, S. (2018). Representations of the Trickster Figure in Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Heuschkel, A. (2019). Investigating the Natural Sequence Hypothesis. A Study of the Acquisition of the Third Person -s Morpheme by German EFL Learners. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)

Hollmann, L. I. (2022). Giving Voice to the (Post)Human Clone: Teaching Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Holtmann, N. (2019). The Construction of Otherness in R.J. Palacio's Wonder. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Hopp, J. (2021). "Stop treating me like a baby!" - Coming of Age in R. J. Palacio's Young Adult Novel Wonder. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Jäschke, J. (2017). Heterogeneity in the Classroom: An Analysis of Challenges in TEFL in an 'Internationale Förderklasse'. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)

Jahnel, N. (2019). National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945) and Harry Potter - an Analysis of the Ideological Similarities. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Jonen, M. (2019). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck in the EFL classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Kemmling, F. (2021). Corpora and teaching English - developing criteria to evaluate corpus-use in the classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)

Kostka, S. (2022). On the Representation of Anti-Black Racism and Black Identity in Angi Thomas' Novel The Hate U Give. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Maginot, L. (2018). Racism in selected works of British and American literature. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Maurer, L. K. M. (2021). #BlackLivesMatter - Reading and Teaching Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give in the EFL-Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Oedekoven, J. (2014). Identity in Dystopian Young Adult Literature. (Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp & Bianca Göbler)

Patzsch, L. (2020). Diasporic Hybridity in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Rosen, L. (2015). How to Deal with John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in the EFL Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)

Roth, A. (2020). Bilingual Geography Education: Blessing or Curse? An Analysis of Selected Teacher Beliefs. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)

Schmitz, H. L. (2021). Reading and Teaching Nic Stone's Dear Martin in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Schüller, T. (2018). Stolen Generation Experiences in Doris Pilkington Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Schröder, L. (2022). Reading and Teaching Postcolonial Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Tary, A. (2018). Representations of the American Dream in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Tüptük, A.-D. (2018). The (Over-)Emphasis on Physical Attractiveness in Disney's Cinderella and Classical Fairy Tales. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

von Tongelen, B. (2015). The Impact of Globalisation on the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. (Prof. Dr. Uwe Küchler & Bianca Göbler)

Vaupel, A. (2022). Attitudes to Sprechhemmung in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)

Weinreiß, M. (2015). The Hunger Games trilogy as an important contribution to the understanding and awareness of war for young adults. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)

Master of Arts

Altendorf, L. (2022). Exploring the connection between extramural online activities, lexical diversity, and errors in German upper grade students. (Applied Linguistics / Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer) 

Master of Education

Banning, L. (2021). Reading and Teaching Nigerian Diasporic Experiences in selected short stories by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Becker, A. (2016). Teaching the Gothic - Suggestions for including British and American Gothic literature in the modern EFL classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)

Behrami, V. (2021). Reading and Teaching and Cultural Identities: Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Berk, B (2022). English Teachers’ Attitudes towards their respective Codeswitching in EFL Classrooms: A Standalone Observation an Juxtaposition with Teacher Reflections and Teacher Interviews. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & PD Dr. Elisabeth Reber)

Bieling, D. (2020). Potenziale und Grenzen des bilingualen Geschichtsunterrichts am Beispiel der südafrikanischen Apartheid. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Peter Geiss)

Blödorn, F. (2021). A postcolonial reading of Tochi Onyebuchi's War Girls. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Böhm. C. (2019). Global Learning in the EFL Classroom: A Qualitative Study on the Possibilities and Challenges of Integrating the Concept into Regular School Education. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Julia Hüttner)

Breil. C. (2023). Reading and Teaching Ecocriticism in Tochi Onyebuchi's Afrodystopian Novel War Girls. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Büttgen, C. (2020). Searching for Identity - Reading and Teaching Postcolonial India through the Movie English Vinglish. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Commer, L. (2020). Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Daas, S. (2021). Intercultural Communicative Competence in EFL textbooks: An Analysis of Cornelsen's Access 1. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Daniels, A. (2020). Investigating the Introduction of the International Phonetic Alphabet in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Dresen, A. (2020). Reading and teaching the ménage à trois in Shakespeare's sonnets. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Freels, L. (2022). Akwaeke Emezi's The Death of Vivek Oji in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Gerwing, C. (2020). 'Once upon a time they lived in paradise‘ – Teaching environmental awareness using Helon Habila’s Oil on Water. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Gibbs, A. (2023). Reading and Teaching Postcolonial Identity Constructions in selected short stories by Chimamnda Ngozi Adichie. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)

Glaeser, L. L. (2021). An Afrofuturistic Reading and Teaching of Star Trek: Discovery. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Gnech, S. (2020). The fear of the inescapable and the dream of the unachievable - Representations of death and immortality in the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and J.R. Rowling. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Grimm, L. S. (2022). Learning from Nigeria: Teaching Global Citizenship Education in the EFL Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Jahnel, N. (2021). Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale - A Dystopia in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Haeusler, S. (2020). 'The American Dream' in F.S. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - A TEFL-perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Hauschild, M. J. (2019). Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Hanrath, V. (2020). Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go in the EFL Classroon. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Harzem, S. (2020). Contemporary Anglophone Canadian Short Fiction in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet)

Herda, F. (2019). Reading and Teaching Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Holtmann, N. (2022). The Role of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education in the EFL Textbook Camden Town 5 - a Case Study. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Hopp, J. (2020). Gender-sensitive Dystopian Teenage Fiction. Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Hosni, S. (2022). Nation and Identity in Post-Colonial Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Hüttemann, J. (2019). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a mediator of values in foreign language classes. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Jäschke, J. (2019). Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Kersten, L. (2023). Reading and Teaching Negotiations of Afropolitan-Nigerian Identities in selected poetic texts. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Klein, M. (2019). The Introduction of Varieties of English in selected EFL Textbooks - a Case Study. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Klein, H. (2021). Teacher attitudes towards English spelling varieties - British and American spelling in the German EFL classroom. (Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Kurz, A.-K. (2020). Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Kühsel, R. (2021). Framing and Challenging Narratives of Race and Identity: Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Lichtenhahn, L. (2022). Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Loch, M. (2022). Reading and Teaching Postcolonial Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Meier, J. (2018). The Trickster Figure in Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Michels, J. (2019). Reading and Teaching 'FIctions of Memory' in the EFL Classroom - An Analysis of Chris Cleave's The Other Hand. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Moor, T. (2016). The Perks of Young Adult Literature - Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)

Müntel, A. (2020). John Greens The Fault in Our Stars in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Neumann, N. (2021). 'America was never America to me'. Reading and Teaching the African-American Dream in Langston Hughes's poetry". (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Nienaber, S. (2019). How do teachers explain unknown words? An observation study of a comparison of vocabulary introduction in a CLIL and an EFL classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)

Oder, A. (2023). The transition between elementary school and secondary school in the EFL classroom - A case study on the students' perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Patzsch, L. (2022). Teaching Katori Hall's The Mountaintop from an anti-racist pedagogy perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Quarz, M.-J. (2021). Reading & Teaching Afrofantasy in the EFL Classroom (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Renn, F. (2021). An Ecodidactic Reading of Tolkien. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Richartz, F. (2018). Reading and Teaching Indian Diasporic Short Fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Richartz, L. (2020). Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in the EFL classroom (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Roth, A. (2022). The progression of code-switching in bilingual geography education. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Röttger, L. (2021). Shakespeare's Othello in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Ruppert, L. (2021). Saci Llyod's The Carbon Diaries in the EFL Classroom (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich). 

Sampels, C. (2020). Study Trips in the EFL Classroom: Just a fun trip or more? (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Schaffer, C. (2019). Oral Corrective Feedback in the EFL Classroom - An Empirical Investigation of Forms- and Message-Focussed Phases of EFL Lessons. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich)

Schulz, S. (2020). Lois Lowry's The Giver - A Comparison of Reading Traditional Novels and Graphic Novels within the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Schüller, T. (2020). Experience of Growing up in Chimamandna Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Schüttler, B. (2021). New Female Role Model and the Aspect of Hope in Youngd Adult Dystopian Literature - Katniss, Lena & Tris - Heroines for the Younger Generation? (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Schützeichel, D. (2016). Individualisierung im Unterricht: Wie fördern Lehrkräfte ihre Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Praxis? (PD Dr. Udo Käser & Bianca Göbler)

Schwickert, K. C. (2019). Teaching Ecocriticism. The Use of Saci Llyod's The Carbon Diaries 2015 in the EFL Classroom. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer) 

Siebert, L. (2019). The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian. A Literary Implementation of Intercultural Competence in Schools in Accordance with the Curriculum of North Rhine-Westphalia. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Stamm, K. (2021). Reading Identity Construction(s) in Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Steglich, F. (2023). Reading and Teaching Representation(s) of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Stümper, R. (2020). Selected diasporic short stories by Chimamanda Adichie in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Tary, A. (2021). Representation(s) of fantasy elements in selected pieces of children's literature - a comparative perspective. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Tüptük, A.-D. (2021). Teaching Shakespearean Tragedy in the EFL Classroom with the Example of Othello. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Ullah, S. (2018). Stereotypes in German EFL teaching materials on Hanif Kureishi's "My Son the Fanatic" and Qaisra Shahraz's "A Pair of Jeans" (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Untch, N. (2019). The Effects of Text Simplification on Students' Reading Comprehension. (Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

vom Feld, L. (2021). Teaching Metropolitanism in Welcome to Lagos. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Wagner, L. (2020). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus in the EFL Classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Walter, N. (2021). Teaching multiethnic and multicultural Nigeria in the EFL classroom. (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet & MEd Daniel Schönbauer)

Wiese, M. (2020). Nic Stone's Dear Martin in the EFL classroom. (MEd Daniel Schönbauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich)

Zocha, A. (2016). Underrated Irishness? Ways of Teaching the Culture of the Republic of Ireland in the EFL Classroom. Methods and Material for Advanced Learners. (Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich & Bianca Göbler)