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Dr Michaela Trenner-Haberkorn

About the person

Since 2007, I have been working as a teacher for special tasks for the additional studies programme German as a foreign language. My teaching curriculum includes grammar, especially syntax, cognitive foreign language didactics and literature didactics. I also teach as a lecturer for German as a foreign language at the Centre for Language and Communication at the University of Regensburg.

Dr. Michaela Trenner-Haberkorn

Academic career

Vita

  • since 04/2007: Lecturer for special tasks at the Institute of German Language and Literature, German as a foreign language
  • 01/2007-09/2013: Management of the language courses for the exchange programmes of the IO of the University of Regensburg with Asia (Korea University and Kanazawa University)
  • 2006/2007: Multiplier training for lecturer training in the immediate teaching programme of the LMU
  • 2005-2010: Member of the teaching staff for English at the Adult Education Centre Regensburg
  • 2003: Doctorate in German language and literature and history of science
  • 2000: German teacher at the Goethe-Institut Munich
  • since 1998: Lecturer (since 2010 lecturer) for German as a foreign language at the ZSK of the University of Regensburg
  • 1997/98: Foreign Language Assistant at Collingwood College (Surrey, England)
  • 1997: Magister Artium in the subjects German language and literature, British studies, general history of science
  • 1993/94: Teaching Assistant at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)

Lectures and workshops

  • 07/2011: "From interculturality research to transcultural learning in German lessons", workshop as part of the BAYHOST Summer Academy 2011
  • 02/2010: Teacher training course "Multimedia and virtual classrooms for foreign language teaching" at the Pedagogy Institute in Plzeň, Czech Republic
  • 07/2009: "Change of perspective: Workshop on intercultural learning" as part of the BAYHOST Summer Academy 2009, main topic: Germany intercultural
  • 07/2008: Lecture "Cultures on the move. Trojanow's travellers in the global network" as part of the Bavarian Summer Academy (BAYHOST), main academic topic 2008: "Pop culture and its influence on contemporary German"
  • 07/2007: Lecture "Treibeis und Weltensammler - Konzepte hybrider Identität in Romanies von Libuše Moníková und Ilija Trojanow" at the International Literature Conference "Fremde Nähe, nahe Fremde - Autorinnen und Autoren mit Migrationshintergrund und ihr Beitrag zu einer transnationalen Literatur" at Gesamteuropäischen Studienwerk e.V. Vlotho
  • 12/2006: Workshop "Internet in the language classroom (online resources and media author)" at the ZSK of the University of Regensburg
  • 09/2006: Teacher training course "Intercultural literature in German lessons" at the Pedagogy Institute in Plzeň, Czech Republic
  • 09/1999: Lecture "Geology and the discovery of deep time in beautiful literature around 1800" at the international symposium "Abraham Gottlob Werner and his time" at the Technical University / Bergakademie Freiberg

Publications

Monographs and essays

  • Encyclopaedia entries "Geology", "Layer", "Sun", "Deep Time", "Fault" in: Günzel, Stephan (ed.): Lexikon der Raumphilosophie; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2012.
  • Geology and evolutionary theory, in: Günzel, Stephan (ed.): Raum. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch; Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010, pp. 34-44.
  • Treibeis und Weltensammler: Konzepte nomadischer Identität in den Romanies von Libuše Moníková und Ilija Trojanow, in: Schmitz, Helmut (ed.): Von der nationalen zur internationalen Literatur. Transkulturelle deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur im Zeitalter globaler Migration; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, pp. 243-261.
  • Natural historians and time seers. Geology and poetry around 1800: The circle around Abraham Gottlob Werner (Goethe, A.v. Humboldt, Novalis, Henrik Steffens, G.H. Schubert); Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004.
  • Die Geologie und die Entdeckung der Tiefenzeit in der schönen Literatur um 1800, in: Albrecht, Helmuth; Ladwig, Roland (eds.): Abraham Gottlob Werner und die Begründung der Geowissenschaften; Freiberg: Freiberger Forschungshefte, 2002; pp. 87-96.
  • Johannes Kepler in Regensburg, in: Lorenz, Martina (ed.): Im Turm, im Kabinett, im Labor. Streifzüge durch die Regensburger Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Regensburg: Universitätsverlag, 1995; pages 146-163.

Reviews

  • Timothy Attanucci: The Restorative Poetics of a Geological Age. Stifter, Viollet-le-Duc, and the Aesthetic Practices of Geohistoricism; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2020, in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie, vol. 143, issue 2/2024; pp. 315-319.
  • Braunbeck, Helga G.: Figurations of art, music, film and dance. Intermediality in Libuše Moníková; Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2018; in: Monatshefte, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 112, no. 1 (April 2020); pp. 169-171.
  • Julian Preece (ed.): Ilija Trojanow. Oxford et al: Peter Lang, 2013; in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Volume 51, Number 2, May 2015, pp. 209-212.
  • Lee, Namho; Uh, Chanje; Lee, Kwangho; Kim, Mihyun: Korean Literature of the 20th Century; Munich: iudicium, 2011; in: Info DaF 2/3 (2013), pp.270-271.
  • Riedel, Wolfgang: Mnemonic bridges. Die schönsten Merksätze und ihre Bedeutung; Mannheim: Dudenverlag, 2012; in: Info DaF 2/3 (2013), p.305-306.
  • Freudenberg, Christine: Do you have any words? Vokabeln und Quizfragen zu Landeskunde Deutschland 2012; Munich: Verlag für Deutsch, 2011; in: Info DaF 2/3 (2013), pp.205-206.
  • Dorfmüller, Ulrike; Möller, Martina (eds.): Interkulturelle Kommunikation in Texten und Diskursen; Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010; in: Info DaF 2/3 (2012); pp.197-198.
  • Berndt, Annette; Kleppin, Karin (eds.): Sprachlehrforschung: Theorie und Empiricism. Festschrift for Rüdiger Grotjahn; Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010; in: Info DaF 2/3 (2012); pp.162-163.
  • Bausch, Karl-Richard; Burwitz-Melzer, Eva; Königs, Frank; Krumm, Hans-Jürgen (eds.): Fremdsprachenlernen erforschen: sprachspezifisch oder sprachenübergreifend?; Tübingen: Narr, 2008; in: Info DaF 2/3 (2010), pages 130-135.
  • Mummert, Ingrid: Encounters with "Gertrud" and "Elsa". Oral and written interpretation of German-language literature with foreign students [Perspektiven Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Vol. 19], Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 2006, in: Info DaF 2/3 (2007); pp. 267-270.
  • Mehnert, Elke (ed.): Erzgebirge - Heimat und domov. Material volume on the 8th German-Czech Encounter Seminar Gute Nachbarn - Schlechte Nachbarn?, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006, in: Brücken. German language and literature yearbook (2006); pp. 409-414.
  • Mehnert, Elke (ed.): ...'s kommt alles vom Bergwerk her. Material volume on the 7th German-Czech Encounter Seminar Gute Nachbarn - Schlechte Nachbarn?, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005, in: Brücken. German language and literature yearbook (2006); pp. 404-409.
  • Diephuis, Henk; Herrlitz, Wolfgang; Schmitz-Schwamborn, Gabriele (eds.): Deutsch in der Welt. Chancen und Initiativen, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002, in: Info DaF 2/3 (2004); pp. 215-218.
  • Apeltauer, Ernst (ed.): Intercultural Communication. Germany - Scandinavia - Great Britain, Tübingen: Narr, 2002, in: Info DaF 2/3 (2004); pages 154-157.
  • Chaouli, Michel: The Laboratory of Poetry. Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel, London 2002, in: Arbitrium. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft (2003); pages 89-92.

Teaching

I regularly offer courses on the following topics:

  • Focus on verbs and syntax of German
  • Syntactic structures and sentence plans of German
  • Pragmalinguistics: Linguistic behaviour
  • Contrastive linguistics
  • (Multi-)literacy: reading and writing in GFL lessons
  • Didactics of text production: The development of writing skills in GFL lessons
  • Didactics of text production: text types and writing strategies for teaching German as a foreign language
  • Introduction to neurodidactics for foreign language teaching
  • Cognitive foreign language didactics: Impulses for GFL lessons
  • Intercultural learning in GFL lessons
  • Methods of teaching technical language: German for academic and professional purposes
  • Testing and assessment in GFL lessons
  • Multimedia and virtual classrooms: media in GFL lessons
  • Virtual learning environments for foreign language teaching
  • Productive skills (writing, speaking) in GFL lessons
  • Literary film adaptations in GFL lessons
  • Graphic novels in GFL lessons
  • Poetry and short prose in GFL lessons
  • Migration and flight as reflected in contemporary literature
  • Voices of the diaspora: The literary examination of migration and exile
  • Changing perspectives: Literary dialogues between Asia and Europe
  • Intertextuality and interculturality: networked modes of writing in contemporary intercultural literature
  • Nomadic existences in the mirror of literature
  • Questions of cultural identity in German-Jewish literature: Elias Canetti, Jurek Becker, Jakob Wassermann, Vladimir Vertlib, Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman
  • Regional studies in DaF lessons
  • Theory and practice of GFL teaching
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