PD Dr. Anja Steinlen

PD Dr. Anja Steinlen

Department Fachdidaktiken
Lehrstuhl für Fremdsprachendidaktik mit Schwerpunkt Didaktik des Englischen

Raum: Raum 2.007
Glückstraße 5
91054 Erlangen

Office hours during the term break

Erlangen:
Tuesday, 06.08.: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Wednesday, 18.09.: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Tuesday, 01.10.: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
and by individual appointment

There will be no office hours in Nuremberg due to the ongoing renovation!
In urgent cases, please contact PD Dr. Steinlen via email.

You can find a list of PD Dr Steinlen’s publications here.

Office hours

Office hours during the term break

Erlangen:

Tuesday, 06.08.: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Wednesday, 18.09.: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Tuesday, 01.10.: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

and by individual appointment

There will be no office hours in Nuremberg due to the ongoing renovation!
In urgent cases, please contact PD Dr. Steinlen via email.

Important information for students

  • 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.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2021: „Cumulative habilitation“ (post-doctoral qualification), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (venia legendi: „Language Teaching and Learning Research“, with a focus on English as a foreign language).
  • Since 2020: Senior Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), Department of Foreign Language Education, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany).
  • 2019: Interim Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) of Multilingualism (Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik), University of Mannheim (Germany).
  • 2011-2020: Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin), Department of Foreign Language Education, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany).
  • 2008-2010: Lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany) in the EU-funded Comenius project “Early Language and Intercultural Acquisition Studies” on early foreign language acquisition in bilingual preschools in four European countries.
  • 2003-2006: Adjunct (Assistant) Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Institute for Technical Language, Communication and Information Science.
  • 2000-2003: Lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), English Department, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany).
  • 2002: PhD (University of Aarhus, Denmark).
  • 1996-2000: PhD student (University of Aarhus, Denmark, English Department, doctoral scholarship, awarded by the Danish Research Council).
  • 1989-1996: MA student in English, History and General Linguistics at the universities in Kiel (Germany) and Edinburgh (Scotland).

Publications

Please refer to this document for a list of publications.

Research interests

Research interests

  • L1, L2, L3, Lx acquisition in school and kindergarten settings
  • Reading, writing (esp. spelling), grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation
  • Teaching of foreign languages
  • Heterogeneity in school

Research projects

Research projects

  • Since 2020: Adolescent pupils’ linguistic development in bilingual secondary school programmes.
  • 2019-2022: Follow-up study of the project „Learning in Two Languages – Bilingual Primary School English“ in secondary schools, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture.
  • Since 2016: Immersion programmes in German schools abroad (esp. in South America).
  • Since 2015: Monolingual and multilingual children with learning difficulties in regular and bilingual programmes.
  • Since 2011: Monolingual and multilingual pupils’ linguistic development in regular and bilingual primary school programmes.
  • 2011-2020: Minority and majority language children’s reading and writing skills in regular and bilingual primary school programmes (post-doc project: “Habilitation”).
  • 2008-2010: EU-funded Comenius project (ELIAS) in bilingual preschools (researcher).
  • Since 2005: Bilingual programmes in preschools and day-care centres (post-doc project).
  • 1996-2002: Acoustic studies on the influence of consonants on native and foreign language vowels (PhD project).
  • 1995-1996: DFG project on infants’ perception of vowels (student assistant).
  • 1992-1994: DFG project on toddlers’ production of L1 German sounds (student assistant).