Anglistik und Amerikanistik

The Department of English and American Studies consists of two independent units: Anglistik und Amerikanistik and Fremdsprachliche Bildung in der Grundschule. The Institute of English and American Studies focuses on the complex transformations of Anglophone cultures in a global world. Privileged areas of research are literature and (visual) culture from the 18th to the 21st century, Material Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Language Practice, and Foreign Language Teaching, especially CLIL and Task-Based Language Teaching. Fremdsprachliche Bildung in der Grundschule concentrates on teaching and learning English in primary education.