Department of Multilingualism (English and French Studies)
The Department provides teaching in English and French across all teacher training programmes.
The English department at the Department of Multilingualism currently comprises three professorships, seven research staff and two seconded lecturers, and is characterised by established international research and teaching collaborations with partners in the UK, Laos, Ghana, Cameroon and Israel, amongst others. Key research areas include Global Englishes, empirical and usage-based perspectives on language acquisition, multilingualism and multilingualism didactics, as well as anti-racist and decolonial perspectives and teaching collaborations with countries in the Global South.
Research
Chair in English Language and its Teaching, specialising in literature and early years English:
Current research projects:
- Bi-directional decoloniality: North-South teaching, learning and research partnerships
World Dance Calling: ‘AkzepTanz’ & ‘Zusammen-Halt’
Chair of English Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching:
Prof. Dr Dorothee Kohl-Dietrich
Current research project:
Chair of Global Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies and Primary-Level English Teaching:
Current externally funded project:
Teaching
Institute team
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Building
3
Room
225
Availability
By arrangement
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Building
3
Room
302
Phone
Availability
By arrangement
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Building
3
Room
303
Availability
By arrangement
Subject: English
Subject: French
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Building
3
Room
302
Phone
Availability
By arrangement
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Availability
By arrangement
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Building
3
Room
303
Phone
Availability
Office hours in the summer semester 2026:
Fridays, 12.30–1.30 pm in room 3.303
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Availability
By arrangement
Organisation
Karlsruhe University of Education
Availability
By arrangement
Updated on 23 October 2026 by Guido Isekenmeier