Integrating Language, Literacy and Subject Teaching in Plurilingual Education Contexts

We’ve launched an eTwinning group to support our project work and future collaborations.
This platform will facilitate our ongoing efforts and help us plan for long-term impact.
You may join us on the eTwinning Group even if you are not part of the project, but an educator who is interested in our actions.
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Michał Stańczak, IT support, MOOCs developer

Michał Stańczak is a multimedia and learning management system specialist. On a daily basis he takes care of the university’s LMS platform – Moodle. He acts as a local administrator and is responsible for technical support, training or user enrollment, creates and uploads asynchronous courses and teaching materials to the platform. He also records and is responsible for post-processing and editing audio-video materials in the content created by the teachers.

María José Salinas Ranero, Project partner

María José Salinas Ranero is a PhD student in the field of bilingual and intercultural education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Primary Education and a master’s degree in Bilingual Education. Her research interests are language learning, bilingualism, and interculturality. Her research focuses on the effects of culture on language learning motivation and how it can be used in the classroom. She has made contributions to international conferences in Spain and Germany and is the technical secretary of the International Conference on Bilingual Education at the University of Córdoba. She has also participated in international projects such as KA203 TEACUP project and Dico + Action-Clé 2: coopération en matière d’innovation et d’échange de pratiques. KA201 – Partenariats stratégiques de l’enseignement scolaire.

Dr. Joanna Pfingsthorn, Project partner

Dr. Joanna Pfingsthorn is a senior researcher and teacher educator at the department of Foreign Language Education at the University of Bremen. Her main research interest is the intersection between inclusive education and foreign language teaching. From 2007-2019 she worked as a lecturer and research associate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, where she trained prospective EFL teachers. She holds a PhD in Foreign Language Education from the University of Oldenburg, a M.Sc. in Cognitive Science from the University of Amsterdam and B.A. in Psychology from Jacobs University Bremen.

Dr Stephan-Alexander Ditze, Project partner

Stephan-Alexander Ditze studied English and Political Science before graduating from teacher training college as a certified CLIL instructor. He teaches English, Politics and Economics at Max-Planck-Gymnasium Delmenhorst. In addition, he is part-time lecturer in EFL pedagogy at Bremen University, where he pursues his postdoc research. He received his PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Vechta. His research and teaching focus on utopian and dystopian fiction, literary imagology as well as on fictional representations of science and scientists. His work on EFL pedagogy centers around the teaching of literature as well as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

Dr. Tim Giesler, Project partner

Dr. Tim Giesler is a lecturer at the department of Foreign Language Education at the University of Bremen, where he trains prospective English teachers. He is a state-certified and an experienced teacher of English as a foreign language, history and politics, and holds a PhD in Foreign Language Education, which he obtained at the University of Bremen. His research interests encompass the history of foreign language education, curriculum studies, bilingual education, and heterogeneity in the classroom.