July 2026 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 18th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California 

March 2025 AI Expert for the studies mandated by the European Commission’s Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). 

July 2024 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 17th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), University of Education, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
October 2012 - 2024 Head of the Expert Jury for Languages for the Educational Media Award 2024, awarded by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

July 2022 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil 

October 2020 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 15th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. December

2019 Literacy Research Association Conference, election for International Area Chair, Tampa, Florida, USA October

2019 Visiting Professor at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel June 2019 Visiting Professor at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts and MOFET Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel May

2019 Digital teaching project "Online Educational Initiatives - Foreign Language Teaching and Learning - Digitally mediated intercultural communication and collaboration between German, Israeli and Arab future teachers", Second Project Award at the Hessian University Award for Excellence in Teaching, Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts February/March

2019 Visiting professor at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel July 2018 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 14th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands June

2018 Organization and implementation of an international field trip with 25 students of the University of Kassel to Israel (BMBF/DLR: Principal Investigator) March

2018 Commission activity for the Council of Higher Education (CHE), Tel Aviv, Israel February 2018 Expert in the international commission for the Council for Higher Education in Jerusalem, Israel on the evaluation of the English for Academic Purposes higher education programs. January/March

2018 Visiting professor at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel September

2017 Research visit to Seattle, USA and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada January

2017 Visiting Professor at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts and at the MOFET Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel July

2016 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria February/March

2016 Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley, School of Education, Berkeley, California, USA.

November/December 2015 Research stay at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA January

2015 Visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria July

2014 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 12th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Hedmark University College (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences), Hamar, Norway

November 2013 Visiting Professor at the Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain. August 2013 Visiting Professor at Western Oregon University, Monmouth, USA

July 2013 Visiting Professor at the University of Hull, Hull, UK and at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

May 2013 Visiting Professor at Kocaeli University, Ismit, Turkey February/March 2013 Zhiqiang - Visiting Professorship at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

January 2013 Visiting Professorship at Hedmark University College, Hamar, Norway July 2012 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 11th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Concordia University, Montréal, Canada Adjunct Professor at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

May 2012 Visiting Professor and Doctoral Workshop at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

November 2011 Visiting Professor at Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden

September 2011 Adjunct Professor at Concordia University Montréal, Montréal, Canada

March 2011 Appointment from C4 to W3 professorship: Institute of English/American Studies: Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research & Intercultural Communication, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

November 2010 Call to the professorship "Multilingual Didactics with a focus on English as a foreign language", University of Bern, Faculty of Humanities, Bern, Switzerland

July 2010 Re-election as President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 10th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

February 2010 Visiting Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, Wellington, New Zealand

October 2008 Visiting Professor, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland July 2008 Re-elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 8th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

June 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Western Sydney, School of Humanities and Languages, Sydney, Australia

July 2006 Elected President of the Association for Language Awareness at the 7th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA), Le Mans Université, Le Mans, France

August 2004 Appointment to the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA (tenure track)

March 2004 Call to Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA (Tenure Track)

2003/2004 Visiting Professor at the University of Western Oregon, Monmouth, Oregon, USA November

2000 Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, School of Education (by Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, Professor of Education & Sociology)

2000/2001 Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley, School of Education, Berkeley, California, USA

October 1999 - 2011 C4 professorship at the Department 08 English and Romance Studies, Subject Area Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research & Intercultural Communication at the Gesamthochschule Kassel (from 2004 University of Kassel), Kassel, Germany

September 1999 Call to C4 professorship at the Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany

February 1999 Call to C4 professorship at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

1998 - 1999 C3-Professorship at the Department 08 English and Romance Studies, Subject Area Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research & Intercultural Communication at the Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany

August 1997 Call to C3-Professorship for Theory and Practice of English Teaching, Department 08 English and Romance Studies, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany

1997-1998 Substitute Professorship for Theory and Practice of English Teaching, Department 08 English and Romance Studies, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany

March 6, 1997 Göttingen Prize for Foreign Language Acquisition Research, awarded on the occasion of the 7th Göttingen Symposium on Foreign Language Education at the University, Language Teaching Center at the University of Göttingen and Arbeitskreis Sprachen (AKS)

1996-1997 Postgraduate studies: Justus Liebig University Giessen; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA; National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

1994-1996 Postgraduate studies: Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

May 7, 1994 Doctorate (summa cum laude), Heidelberg, Germany. Dissertation: "English Language Teaching in a European Dimension: Between Qualification Expectations of Society and Student Attitudes and Interests. Reports and Context of Two Empirical Investigations." Dr. Brockmeyer: Bochum, Germany.

1990-1994 Doctoral student at the Heidelberg University of Education and the Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany.

1987-1997 Lecturer at the University of Education Ludwigsburg, Germany and at the University of Education Heidelberg, Germany

1982-1994 Teacher of English and Physical Education, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

1980-1982 Teacher training, second phase: teaching qualification for English and physical education for secondary level 2, Heidelberg University of Education, Germany. Graduation: Second state examination

1976-1980 Teacher training, first phase: teaching qualification for English and Physical Education for Secondary Level 2, Heidelberg University of Education, Germany. Graduation: First State Examination

1976 Abitur, Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium, Heilbronn, Germany