Profile
Abstract
Maxi Kupetz has been Professor of German as a Second Language at the Herder Institute since 2024. She studied European media culture, communication studies, communication linguistics and German as a foreign language in Weimar, Lyon, Potsdam and Sydney. She completed her doctorate in linguistics at the University of Potsdam in 2015. In 2017, she took over the junior professorship for Intercultural Communication and Teacher Education at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and from 2022 she headed the Studienkolleg Sachsen (University of Leipzig). Her work focuses on classroom interaction, multilingualism in classrooms and schools, oral language/social interaction and teacher professionalization in the migration society (especially through case work).
Further information:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxi-Kupetz
Professional career
- since 04/2024
Professor of German as a Second Language (TTP) - 10/2023 - 08/2024
parental leave with 2nd child - 03/2022 - 03/2024
Head of Studienkolleg Sachsen (central institution of the University of Leipzig) - 10/2021 - 02/2022
Substitute for the W2 Professorship for German Linguistics/German as a Foreign Language an the German Department of Leibniz University Hanover - 10/2017 - 09/2021
Junior Professor of 'Intercultural Communication and Teacher Education' at the Institute of German Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (without tenure track), positive interim evaluation in July 2020, then Head of the Division of German as a Foreign and Second Language - 04/2017 - 12/2017
parental leave with 1st child - 10/2009 - 09/2017
Academic Assistant, Chair of Communication Theory and Linguistics, Institute of German Studies, University of Potsdam - 02/2016 - 03/2016
Research stay at the 'Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) unit', University of California in Santa Barbara, USA - 09/2015 - 02/2016
Volunteer GSL teacher for refugees in Berlin - 02/2008 - 07/2008
GFL tutor at the German Department of Macquarie University, Sydney
Education
- 10/2009 - 04/2015
Doctorate in Linguistics, University of Potsdam - 03/2012 - 04/2012
Research stay at the 'Finnish Center of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction' in Helsinki, Finland - 04/2007 - 09/2009
Master of Arts in Communication Linguistics/German as a Foreign Language at the University of Potsdam - 02/2008 - 07/2008
Study stay (Linguistics) at Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia) - 10/2003 - 03/2007
Bachelor of Arts in European Media Culture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany) & Licence in Information-Communication at the Université Lumière Lyon II (France) (DFH-UFA German-French University) - 08/2000 - 07/2001
School stay abroad (Québéc, Canada) - 04/1998 - 06/1998
School stay abroad (Pennsylvania, USA)
Panel Memberships
- since 10/2024
Member of the Center Council of the Center for Teacher Education and School Research (ZLS) at Leipzig University - since 10/2024
Chairwoman of the Supplementary Studies Commission of the Center for Teacher Education and School Research (ZLS) at Leipzig University - since 04/2024
Board member of the Gesellschaft für akademische Studienvorbereitung und Testentwicklung e.V. (g.a.s.t.) - since 04/2021
Member of the scientific advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Interaktionsforschung in DaFZ (ZIAF)
Main areas of research:
- communicative practices in the language classroom (German as a Second Language, language and subject-integrated learning, GSL support lessons)
- Multilingualism in classroom interaction
- Digital (AI-based) tools in classroom interaction
- Structures of social interaction in the context of GSL: construction of belonging, positioning, recipient design, multimodality
- Learning and school experiences of young people from different countries
- Teacher professionalism in the migration society, sensitisation to linguistic and cultural diversity in lessons and schools (especially through case studies), attitudes towards multilingualism
- Theoretical and methodological approaches: conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, multimodality research, membership categorisation analysis, applied conversation research, cases/case studies in teacher training
- show detailsLanger, C.; Kupetz, M.Praktiken der Bearbeitung sprachlicher Phänomene von Lernenden-Äußerungen im DaZ- und fachintegrierten UnterrichtDeutsch als Fremdsprache. 2025. 62 (1). pp. 26–39.
- show detailsKupetz, M.; Becker, E.Language Alternation in the Multilingual Classroom – Communicative functions and multimodal gestaltsIn: Selting, M.; Barth-Weingarten, D. (Eds.)New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research. Benjamins. 2024. pp. 378–408.
- show detailsKupetz, M.; Becker, E.; Helzel, A.; Lindner, M.; Schöps, M.; Rabe, T.Sprache(n) im Fachunterricht: Heterogenitätssensibilisierung durch Kasuistikk:ON – Kölner Online Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung . 2021. 3 (1). pp. 153–189.
- show detailsKupetz, M.Multimodalität und Adressatenorientierung in Instruktionen im DaZ- und fachintegrierten UnterrichtGesprächsforschung – Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion . 2021. pp. 348–389.
- show detailsKupetz, M.; Glaser, K.; You, H.-J. (Eds.)Embracing social interaction in the L2 classroom: Perspectives for language teacher education. An introductionRoutledge. 2019.
Research fields
German as a foreign and second language, Linguistics
Specializations