Prof. Dr. Thorsten Piske

Office hours during the summer semester 2026:

Nuremberg:
Tuesday: 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Erlangen:
Thursday: 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Die Sprechstunde am Donnerstag, dem 30.04. in Erlangen muss aufgrund dienstlicher Gründe leider entfallen.
The office hours on Thursday, 30.04. in Erlangen have to be cancelled due to work-related reasons.

• I can only supervise the „Zulassungsarbeiten“ or master theses of students who have completed at least one of my courses successfully.
• „Zulassungsarbeiten“ or master theses written in the field of „Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen“ are supervised in cooperation with Patricia Uhl.

Here you can find a list of Prof Piske's publications.

• Phonetics and Second Language Speech Learning
• Foreign language learning and teaching
• First and Second Language Acquisition

Lectures:

• 2017: FAU - Tag der Lehre 2017: (Inter-)nationale Perspektiven auf Diversität
• 2023: Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Didaktik des bilingualen Lehrens und Lernens

Inverview:

• 2023: Sind wir irgendwann zu alt zum Fremdsprachenlernen?

• 1993: 1. Staatsexamen, LA Gym (University degree required for the teaching profession)
• 1997-1999: NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biocommunications Laboratory, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• 1999: PhD, English linguistics, Slavic linguistics, General linguistics

• Since 2011: Full Professor and chair of Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 2004-2011: Full Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Teaching of English, University of Education, Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 2003-2004: Visiting Professor, University of Education, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
• 1999-2003: Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), English Department, University of Kiel, Germany
• 1997-1999: Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• 1993-1997: Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), English Department, University of Kiel, Germany
• 1987-1993: Student Assistant, English Department, University of Kiel, Germany
• 1986-1987: Assistant Teacher, Barry Boys Comprehensive School, Barry, Wales

• FAU Language Centre: Board spokesman (Vorstandssprecher)
• 2013 - 2018: FAU Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology: Diversity management representative (Diversity-Beauftragter)

Journals:

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Canadian Modern Language Review, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Phonetics, Language Learning,Phonetica und Second Language Research

Research funding organisations:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Volkswagen Stiftung, European Science Foundation (ESF), National Science Foundation, USA, Schweizerischer Nationalfond (SNF), Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

• Since 2014:
  Multilingualism and Language Teaching (with Silke Jansen and Martha Young-Scholten), Tübingen: Narr Verlag
• Since 2006:
  Sprachenlernen konkret! Angewandte Linguistik und Sprachvermittlung (with Erika Werlen and Gérald Schlemminger), Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.

• 2021: Preis für gute Lehre an den staatlichen Universitäten in Bayern (teaching award granted by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art)