Master of Arts in Sprachlehrforschung

Job opportunities

Graduates of the Master of Arts program in Sprachlehrforschung go on to work in the following vocational areas:

• Adult foreign and second language education
• Teaching and research at German language and literature departments in many different countries
• Teacher training in Germany and abroad
• Editorial work at publishing houses
• Development of projects in the fields of education and New Media
• International business communication
• Translation and interpreting
• Planning and evaluation of language policy in companies and institutions
• Advertising and marketing
  
  
  Current Research Activities
  
  

• The teaching and acquisition of vocabulary
• Foreign language exercises
• Subjective pedagogical theories
• Interaction in the language classroom
• Foreign language teaching and acquisition in primary and secondary schools
• Cognitiva aspects of L2 grammar acquisition
• Teaching and acquisition of idioms
• Covert translation
• Misunderstandings in intercultural communication in English as a lingua franca
• Language needs and language education in study abroad contexts

Contact Information

University of Hamburg
Faculty of Arts
Department of Language, Literature and Media II
Sprachlehrforschung
Von-Melle-Park 6; II. Stock
20146 Hamburg
Germany

Telephone: +49 (0)40 428 38 5387
Fax: +49 (0)40 428 38 5391
E-mail: slf@uni-hamburg.de