Profile

Professional career

• since 05/2019
  Lecturer (Leipzig University, Herder-Institut)
• since 09/2019
  Editor of the journal "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" (Leipzig University, Herder-Institut/interDaF am Herder-Institut der Universität Leipzig e.V.)
• since 04/2020
  Research Assistant (Leipzig University, Herder-Institut)
• 04/2018 - 03/2020
  Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Greifswald, Institute of German Philology)
• 09/2014 - 03/2018
  German Lecturer (German Academic Exchange Service, Tomsk State Pedagogic University, Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University)
• 06/2013 - 06/2014
  Predoctoral Researcher (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• 09/2012 - 06/2013
  German Lecturer (German Academic Exchange Service, (Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk State University)
• 10/2010 - 07/2012
  Student Assistant (Leipzig University, Herder-Institut)

Education

• 12/2014 - 04/2019
  Doctoral Studies (University of Vienna), Title of the doctoral project: "Language requirements in tourism-related service professions. Empirically sound curriculum development"
• 10/2010 - 09/2012
  M.A.-Studies "German as a Foreign Language"
• 10/2007 - 09/2010
  B.A.-Studies "German as a Foreign Language"

Michael Seyfarth's main areas of research include:

• empirical curriculum development
• teaching/learninge languages for specific purposes
• cultural learning (especially research on memory discourses and their potentials for the foreign language classroom)

• Seyfarth, M.

  Sprachlich-kommunikative Anforderungen in tourismusbezogenen Serviceberufen. Empirische Grundlagen für die Curriculumentwicklung

  Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. 2020

  ISBN: 978-3-503-19178-9
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• Seyfarth, M.

  Lehrwerke für Tourismusberufe: Ein Blick auf das Beispiel Deutsch als Fremdsprache

  In: Ammon, U.; Costa, M. (Eds.)

  Sprachwahl im Tourismus – mit Schwerpunkt Europa/ Language Choice in Tourism – Focus on Europe / Choix de langues dans le tourisme – focus sur l'Europe . Boston: deGruyter. 2018. pp. 253-265

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2018-0021
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• Seyfarth, M.

  Sprachlich-kommunikative Anforderungen als Basis von Curricula: Ein Modell zur empirisch fundierten Curriculumentwicklung

  In: Efing, C.; Kiefer, K.-H. (Eds.)

  Sprachbezogene Aufgaben und Curricula in der beruflichen Bildung: Aktuelle Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2017. pp. 91-110

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07175-7
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• Kimmelmann, N.; Seyfarth, M.

  Aufgaben in Fachkunde- und Arbeitsbüchern der beruflichen Bildung - Herausforderungen für die Entwicklung berufsbezogener sprachlich-kommunikativer Kompetenz

  In: Efing, C.; Kiefer, K.-H. (Eds.)

  Sprachbezogene Aufgaben und Curricula in der beruflichen Bildung: Aktuelle Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2017. pp. 217-238

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-07175-7
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• Seyfarth, M.

  Empirische Curriculumentwicklung: Das Rahmencurriculum für die sprachliche Qualifizierung von TouristenführerInnen

  In: Schramm, K.; Seyfarth, M. (Eds.)

  Hochschulbezogene Curriculumentwicklung im Fokus (=Thematischer Teil im Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache 2015). München: IUDICIUM. 2017. pp. 55-67
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more publications

• Herder-Institut

  Zeitschrift "Deutsch als Fremdsprache"

  Start Date of Collaboration: 01/01/1964

  External participating organisations: interDaF e.V. am Herder-Institut der Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)

  Involved persons: Fandrych, Christian; Seyfarth, Michael; Wallner, Franziska; Schwendemann, Matthias
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more cooperations

Focus didactics and methodology

• Written competencies: Curricular and methodological aspects (UL)
• Forms of teaching/learning German as a foreign/second language (UL)
• Preparation for the internship (UL)
• Research on teaching/learning material (UL)
• Teaching/learning German for specific purposes (UL)
• Audiovisual media between cultural, aesthetic and language learning (UG)
• Curriculum development (UG)
• Literary texts in German as a foreign/second language (UG)
• Teaching/learning German for general, job-related, professional and scientific purposes (UG)
• Competence-oriented use of audio-visual materials and literary texts (various trainings for teachers in higher education)

Focus cultural learning

• Transcultural learning (UL)
• German-Russian memory spaces (UG)
• Foreignness and its media representation (UG)
• (Inter-)cultural competence in theory and practice (UG)
• Cultural learning in German as a foreign/second language (UG)
• Research on memory discourses and and their potentials for the foreign language classroom (various trainings for teachers in higher education)

General subject-related and scientific focuses

• Introduction to German as a foreign/second Language (UG)
• Tendencies and structures of the subject German as a foreign Language (UG)
• Institutional and cultural influences on teaching/learning German as a foreign/second language(UG)
• Empirical research on teaching/learning languages (various trainings for teachers in higher education)

Note:

UL - Leipzig Univ.

UG - Univ. of Greifswald