Johanna Embacher, M.Ed.
Emil-Figge-Str. 50
Raum 3.326
(+49) 231 755 3690
Office hours during the summer term:
Tue, 10-11 or by appointment
(no office hours on May 6th and May 13th) - alternative office hours on May 8th and May 15th from 12-1
Forschungsschwerpunkte / Research Interests
- English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
- ELF and its implications on teaching
- Material design
- Second language acquisition
Funktionen / Responsibilities
- Ansprechpartnerin für das Berufsfeldpraktikum
- Studienberatung
Johanna Embacher studied English and Philosophy for secondary schools at TU Dortmund University. She wrote her master's thesis on ELF in the ELT Classroom – Developing ELF-aware Teaching Materials for Secondary Schools with Prof. Dr. Ehrenreich. In June 2023, she joined the Applied Linguistics and ELT Chair at TU Dortmund.
Embacher, J. (2023). “ELF in the ELT Classroom – Developing ELF-aware Teaching Materials for Secondary Schools.” (Master’s Thesis)
"English as a Lingua Franca in German Secondary Schools - Implementing and Assessing ELF-aware Teaching Materials" English as a Lingua Franca 14 Conference 'From Global Englishes to Bot-English. Language Use in the Era of AI', 11-14 September 2024, Prague City University, Prague, Czech Republic.
"Designing Communicative Teaching Materials for German Secondary Schools - An Emphasis on English as a Lingua Franca" The MATSDA Conference 'Materials for Developing Communicative Ability', 5-6 June 2024, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Developing EIL/ELF-aware Teaching Materials for Secondary Schools – Perspectives from Germany” 25th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) ‘World Englishes in a Multilingual World’, 15-17 June 2023, Stony Brook University, N.Y., U.S.
“English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the Classroom – Designing ELF-aware Teaching Materials for German Secondary Schools” Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) Symposium, 31 May 2023, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany.
SoSe 2025
Past Semesters
- English as a Lingua Franca in the ELT Classroom
- Evaluating, Adapting, and Designing Teaching Materials
- Vorbereitungsseminar auf das Praxissemester
- Begleitseminar für das Praxissemester