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Ms Elisabeth Wielander

Sessional German Tutor

Room: NW911
Phone: 0121-204-3754
Email: e.wielander@aston.ac.uk
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Elisabeth joined the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University as Austrian Lektorin (sent by the ÖK- Austrian Academic Exchange Organisation) from September 2007 to August 2011 and has been working as a sessional German tutor since October 2011.

Qualifications & Education

  • Current:PhD candidate at Aston University (Title of project: CLIL in UK Higher Education – Content and Language Integrated Learning in Modern Language Teaching, based on a case study in German at Aston University)
  • Magister in Translation Studies at the University of Graz, Austria
  • Postgraduate certificate “Teaching of German as a Foreign Language” at the University of Graz, Austria

Teaching and supervision

  • Austrian Cultural History
  • German language
  • Area studies
  • LSP translation

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • ÖDaF - Österreicher Verband Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Zweitsprache
  • ALL – Association for Language Learning
  • SRHE – Society for Research into Higher Education
  • WIGS – Women in German Studies

Research Interests

  • Teaching of German as a Foreign Language
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning
  • Audiovisual media in language teaching and learning
  • Translation in Language Teaching