Portuguese language in the African Lusophone countries (PALOP), with a focus on sociolinguistic variation and language contact
Oral corpora of spoken Portuguese in Africa: design, collection, and analysis
Discourse analysis and narrative practices in Portuguese varieties
Didactics of Portuguese as a foreign and second language (PLE/PL2)
Hans Giessen
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (Poland) / Saarland University (Germany)
Areas of interest:
production of texts and media (applied – journalism etc. – and theoretical in research about media-adequateness of publications in different media)
history of language(s)
(historical) semantics (Michel Bréal)
pragmatics
media linguistics
literature and media analysis
media effects
E-Learning
Anta Kursiša
Stockholm University
Areas of interest:
German as a Foreign Language
Multi-/plurilingualism
Cross-linguistic interaction and receptive competence
L2-motivation
Michael Möbius
Areas of interest:
Teaching German as a Foreign Language (i.e. methods and didactical issues of teaching an learning grammar in an online context)
Grammar (i.e. development of a feasable German grammar for online-studies)
Computer Assisted Language Learning (i.e. design of online courses and interactive grammar exercises on university level)
Error management culture (esp. in an online context)
Christian Niedling
University of Turku
Areas of interest:
Autonomy and self-direction in foreign language teaching
Didactics of German as a Foreign Language
National epics
Persuasive communication
Romanticism
Petra Schirrmann
University of Iceland
Areas of interest:
Radio play in Germany and in Finland, texts and production for different media, publications for different media, media in Germany, literature and media, journalism in the U.S. and in Germany, E-learning, DLL (Deutsch Lehren Lernen), pedagogy.