Prof. Dr. Torben Schmidt

Professor of English Didactics

Member of the Institute of English Studies
Member of the Faculty of Education

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Prof. Dr. Torben Schmidt
Scharnhorststr. 1, C5.135
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-2616
Fax +49.4131.677-2666
torben.schmidt@leuphana.de

Prof. Dr. Torben Schmidt is Professor of English Didactics at the Institute of English Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His fields of interest are foreign language learning and the digital media, self-directed learning and project work in the EFL classroom, teaching EFL in elementary schools, drama in education, and the teaching of listening and speaking. 

Vita

Education, Employment, and Positions

• since Jan 2012: Prof. of English Didactics at Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Apr 2011 - Jan 2012: Prof. (Jun.-Prof.) of English Didactics at Leuphana University Lüneburg
• since  Sep  2009:  member,  educational  board,  EFL  Journal  "Praxis Englisch”
• Dec 2008 – Mar 2011: associate, Giessen International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
• since Oct  2008:  member,  scientific  advisory  board,  "The  English Academy"
• since  May  2007:  postdoctoral  research  project  (Habilitation),  topic: "Fostering   oral   skills   through   the   use   of   participatory   Web   2.0 technologies in the project-based EFL  Classroom ", (advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael K. Legutke, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany)
• Jan 2007 – Apr 2008: research assistant, M.A. "E-LINGO – Teaching languages to young learners", Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
• Jun 2004 – Apr 2007: doctoral research project, topic of dissertation: "Gemeinsames   Lernen   mit   Selbstlernsoftware   –   Eine   empirische Analyse lernprogrammgestützter Partnerarbeitsphasen im Unterricht der Klasse  7"  (Cooperative  learning  with  language   learning  software), (advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael K. Legutke, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany), (graduation with highest honour)
• Jan 2003 – Jun 2006: research assistant, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Oct  2002  –  Jun  2004:  postgraduate  studies,  English  Literature  and Linguistics,   Goethe  University,  Frankfurt,  Germany  (graduation  with distinction)
• Oct 1998 – Jun 2002: teacher training studies, English Language and Literature,  Mathematics, Psychology, Educational Sciences, first state examination,  teaching  degree  for  secondary  schools,  Justus  Liebig University, Giessen, Germany (graduation with distinction)
• Oct 1997 – Sep 1998: civilian service at the Verein für Rasenspiele 1919, Limburg, Germany
• Aug 1998 – Jul 1998: School-leaving certificate 'Abitur', Tilemannschule- Gymnasium, Limburg, Germany

Fellowships and Awards 

• Oct 2008 – Mar 2011: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Association of InterdisciplinaryResearch in the Field of Cultural Techniques and their Medialisation, funded by the Ministry of Science and Art, Federal State of Hesse, Germany
• Oct 2007 – Dec 2007: Junior Research Fellow at the InternationalGraduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Member of the Graduate Centre
• Oct 2007: Hans Eberhard Piepho Price 2007 for the dissertation thesis
• Jul 2004 – Jun 2006: Doctoral Fellowship, Centre of Teacher Educationand Educational Research (ZLF), Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
• Oct 2004: Runner Up, Competition Best School Lesson 2004 in Germany, Award established by 'Teachers Online' and the German Ministry of Science and Education
• Mar 2003: Runner Up, Competition "Die Klasse Lösung" (Designing a concept for the integration of computers in the foreign language classroom), Educational Fare, Nurenberg

Current professional and academic association memberships 

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung / German Society for Foreign Language Research
• Englisch und Mehrsprachigkeit, English and Multilingualism (German Association)
• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL)