Profile

Professional career

• 11/2021 - 09/2022
  Temporary professorship for German as a Foreign Language, JLU Gießen
• since 10/2016
  Postdoctoral Researcher at the Herder Institute, University of Leipzig (Germany), Didactics of German as a Foreign Language
• 01/2015 - 12/2017
  Predoctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Erfurt University (Germany), in the area of General Psychology and Instructional Psychology
• 01/2012 - 12/2014
  Predoctoral Researcher in the DFG-Project: Sentence Memory as a Method of Language Assessment for Preschool Children at the Department of Psychology, Erfurt University (Germany)
• 08/2010 - 08/2011
  German Lecturer, DAAD-Stipend (Sprachassistentin) at the Department of Languages and Culture Studies of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), USA

Education

• 04/2004 - 08/2010
  M.A. German as a Foreign Language, American Studies, Spanish Studies at the University of Leipzig, GermanyThesis: "The Usage of Online Dictionaries and its Influence on Reading Comprehension in German as a Second Language"
• 04/2012 - 12/2017
  PhD at the University of Erfurt (Germany)Thesis: "Sentence Recall in German as a first and second language: Memory and cognitive performance"
• 03/2013 - 03/2018
  Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education

Computer-based and evidence-based teaching and learning are in the focus of my research. I use both quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate cognitive processing, metacognition and competence development. In my dissertation, I have focused on sentence processing in German as a first and second language. Here, I have investigated language processing (working memory) by means of eye tracking as well as computer-based experiments and statistical analysis. Currently, I am investigated in the research on technology-enhanced teaching and learning as well as the training of digital skills of (future) teachers. In this context, I have acquired the project "Virtual Lab - Digital Learning Places on the Test Bench", together with Christine Magosch: In an MA module, students will create digital instructional materials using 360° videos or pictures and develop lessons for foreign language teaching. In the project, both data on the application of the developed instructional materials and on the development of the digital competencies of the students is collected and evaluated.

In addition, I am currently involved in various teaching and research projects at the Herder Institut in the area of Didactics of German as a Foreign Language with Prof. Würffel, which are concerned with the digitalization of teaching and learning processes: Media concept development, MakerSpace, Virtual Exchanges.

• Hybrid Teaching in Higher Education: Presence and Learning in Virtual Learning Environments

  Ketzer-Nöltge, Almut

  Duration: 10/2020 – 03/2021

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Deutsch als Fremdsprache mit Schwerpunkt Didaktik/Methodik; Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Kulturstudien und ihre Didaktik
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• Virtual Lab - Digital learning sites on the test bench

  Ketzer-Nöltge, Almut

  Duration: 10/2019 – 09/2020

  Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Deutsch als Fremdsprache mit Schwerpunkt Didaktik/Methodik
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• Diruptions and Continuities - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Situation of German Studies and Related Disciplines in Ukraine

  Ketzer-Nöltge, Almut

  Duration: 12/2022 – 05/2023

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Deutsch als Fremdsprache mit Schwerpunkt Didaktik/Methodik
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• Ketzer-Nöltge, A.

  Satzverarbeitung in der Erst- und Zweitsprache Deutsch: Gedächtnisleistung und kognitive Belastung

  Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag. 2019.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b15799
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• Ketzer-Nöltge, A.; Schweppe, J.; Rummer, R.

  Is the seductive details effect moderated by mood? An eye-tracking study

  Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2019. 33 (1 (Special Issue)). pp. 62–70.

  DOI: 10.1002/acp.3487
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• Ketzer-Nöltge, A.; Herzig, K.

  Unterrichtsplanungsmodelle für DaFZ aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive – Teil 1

  Deutsch als Fremdsprache. 2019. 56 (4). pp. 205–213.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.37307/j.2198-2430.2019.04.03
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• Ketzer-Nöltge, A.; Wolbergs, J. T. S.

  Nicht weg und nicht da – Eine Studie zum Einsatz von 360°-Video-Streaming in der Hochschullehre

  In: Barnat, M.; Bosse, E.; Szczyrba, B. (Eds.)

  Forschungsimpulse für hybrides Lehren und Lernen an Hochschulen. Köln: Cologne Open Science. 2021. pp. 33–48.

  URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-cos4-9465
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• Ketzer-Nöltge, A.; Markovic, M.

  Fostering Pre-Service Teachers’ Information and Critical Digital Literacy Skills through a COIL Project

  International Journal of TESOL Studies Special Issue on Teaching and Teacher Development in Technology-enhanced Language Learning.. 2022.
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more publications

• Deutsch als Fremdsprache mit Schwerpunkt Didaktik/Methodik

  Virtual Exchange: Fostering Digital and Global Competencies

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/09/2019

  External participating organisations: Ohio University (Athens, Ohio, USA)

  Involved persons: Ketzer-Nöltge, Almut; Hollis, Jessica L.
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Several instructional principles guide my teaching. The main goal is that my students will remember contents and aquire competences in a way that it will serve them for a long time (sustainable learning). For this purpose I use different (digitally enhanced) methods such as audience response systems to involve students more in the teaching and learning process (learner activation). I also integrate moments of reflection into my seminars. In order to make knowledge available on a long-term basis, I also use evidence-based methods (e.g. spacing, testing, explanatory feedback, etc.). Where applicable, I have implemented the concept of a Flipped Classroom in form of blended learning seminaries, so that basic content and concepts are being prepared by the students in an online phase preceding class. Consequently, this leaves more time during classes to discuss misunderstandings and to apply and transfer knowledge to practical problems (competence orientation). Finally, I pursue a high degree of learner orientation by considering individual learning goals, building on previous knowledge and experiences, devoting individual study times and fostering responsibility for each student's own learning.

Especially in the subject area of German as a Foreign Language, international experiences are indispensable for the professional future of my students, I therefore aspire to integrate international exchange projects inte many of my classes (i.e. Virtual Exchanges).

• Developing and Researching Instruction: Focus Writing

  MA German as a Foreign and Second Language (Herder Institute, Leipzig University)

• Current Trends in German as a Foreign and Second Language I: Digital media for Instruction

  MA German as a Foreign and Second Language (Herder Institute, Leipzig University)

• Current Trends in German as a Foreign and Second Language II: Virtual Lab - 360° media for German as a Foreign and Second Languag

  MA German as a Foreign and Second Language (Herder Institute, Leipzig University)

• Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching of Foreign Langages

  BA German as a Foreign and Second Language (Leipzig University)

• Introduction to Academic Research and Writing in GFL

  BA German as a Foreign and Second Language (Leipzig University)

• Cognition: Learning, Understanding, Memory, Thinking

  MA Psychology (University of Erfurt)

• Instructional Design: Theories and Models

  MA Child and Youth Media (University of Erfurt)

• Basics of Language Didactics

  MEd Elementary School & MEd Special Needs Education (University of Erfurt)

• Design of Multimedia Learning Environments

  BA Psychology of Teaching, Learning and Training (University of Erfurt)

• Educational Psychology: Instructional Psychology

  BA Psychology of Teaching, Learning and Training (University of Erfurt)

• Application of Methods: Empirical Internship

  BA Psychology of Teaching, Learning and Training (University of Erfurt)

• German Culture through Film

  BA German as a Foreign Language (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)