Dr. Katharina von Elbwart

Didaktik ? Didaktik - Bereich Prof. Hohwiller

Akademische R?tin

Büro­anschrift:
威尼斯人官网 Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
Raum:
J4.204
Sprechstunden:

Just send me an email katharina.elbwart@upb.de, if you wish to see me during my office hours.

I'd be happy to supervise your BA/MA thesis starting in Spring 2026. In TEFL, we will move to a general “exam week” for BA/MA defenses; in Summer 2026, this will be from July 27-31,2026 - please plan accordingly!

?ber Katharina Elbwart

Katharina v. Elbwart is a post-doctoral researcher at Paderborn University, Germany. Her areas of interest include sociolinguistics and dialectology (in multilingual migrant communities) and language attitudes. More recently, her research has focused on the development of language teacher identity and language use in pre-service teacher education.

Curriculum Vitae

Seit 11/2020: Akademische R?tin, Paderborn University (tenured)

Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Foreign Language

05/2022 - 07/2024: Maternity leave

10/2020: Qualified Teacher Status (2. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Berufskollegs)

English & German

05/2019 - 10/2020: Teacher training (Vorbereitungsdienst LA BK), Hans-B?ckler Berufskolleg Marl

09/2019: PhD, University of Duisburg-Essen

Linguistics

04/2014 - 05/2019: PhD candidate (wiss. MA), University of Duisburg-Essen

Linguistics and Varieties of English

2018: Visiting scholar, Fort Hays State University, KS, USA

Linguistics

08/2014: Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA

Linguistics

2013 - 2014: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA

Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature

06/2013: Teaching degree (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Berufskollegs), University of Duisburg-Essen

English, German & Economics

Forschung

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Research interests:

Language regard and perceptual dialectology, Varieties of English (focus on American English), Global Englishes Language Teaching, Educational linguistics, Language attitudes, Language teacher identity, Teaching Linguistics

For current research projects, please follow this link https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-anglistik-und-amerikanistik/dr-katharina-v-elbwart

Publikationen

Ausgew?hlte Publikationen

Designing Global Englishes Language Teaching Materials - Challenges Across the Curriculum

K. Elbwart, P. Schildhauer, in: K. Elbwart, P. Hohwiller (Eds.), English Language Education in Times of Global Changes, Peter Lang, Berlin, 2027.


Assessing pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the use of Global Englishes in TESOL

K. Elbwart, D. Keatinge, in: J. Reckermann, R. R?mhild (Eds.), Advances and Current Research in Global Englishes Language Teaching: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, Bloomsbury Academics, London, 2027.


Developing language teacher identity and leadership skills in intercultural learning environments

K. Elbwart, D. Keatinge, in: H. Reinders (Ed.), Language Teacher Leadership. Insights from Research and Practice., Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023, pp. 209–228.


A View from the Sunshine State: Mapping Perceptions and Language Ideologies in Florida.

K. Elbwart, in: P. Ronan, E. Ziegler (Eds.), Language, Migration and Identity, 1st ed., Peter Lang, Oxford, 2022, pp. 23–49.


English Only? Multilingualism in EFL classrooms

K. Elbwart, Praxis Englisch 3 (2022) 44–46.


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Lehre

Schwerpunkte in der Lehre

Classes taught in (Applied) Linguistics:

Language and Power

Teaching Language - Global Englishes

Teaching language internationally

Vorbereitung/Begleitung Praxissemester BK/Gy/Ge

Diagnosis & Support: Focus on Multilingualism

Teaching English in elementary schools (intermediate/advanced)

Bilingualism in the US

Pidgin & Creole languages

Language in US Society

Varieties of English

Approaches to Language: Sociolinguistics & Education

Languages in Contact

Introduction to Linguistics

The English Lexicon

Morphology & Syntax

Contrastive Linguistics

Foreign language classes in English and German in various contexts (ESL/EFL/DaZ/DaF)