Biographical Information

Date of birth 18/01/1983

Dominik Rumlich studied English and Geography at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at Waikato University in Hamilton, New Zealand, and completed a teacher's degree for German secondary schools (Gymnasium/Gesamtschule). Due to his outstanding results he was acknowledged as the best graduate by the Zentrum für Lehrerbildung of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Summer 2009.
    During his time as a student, he worked as a tutor in the field of statistics (Department of Geography) as well as English linguistics and literature (Institute of Anglophone Studies). Furthermore, he was employed as a student assistant in the Department of Research on Learning and Instruction at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum; he was involved in several projects on science teaching and, on behalf of the North-Rhine Westphalian Ministry of Education, also conducted some of the PISA tests in the year 2006.
    If he's not busy working, he often spends long hours in school gyms playing table tennis; he also enjoys playing badminton, reading, catching up with friends and travelling with a particular preference for New Zealand.

Areas of teaching and research

At present, Dominik Rumlich teaches in the fields of EFL-Methodology with a particular focus on the areas of CLIL, (quantitative) research methodology, assessment and individual learner characteristics. Furthermore, he offers courses on the language and culture of Aotearoa, New Zealand. The PhD thesis he is currently preparing stems from the area of Content and Language Integrated Learning (aka CLIL, aka "bilingual teaching"), rendering it his primary field of teaching and research. In his longitudinal quasi-experimental study, he compares the development of both CLIL and non-CLIL students' linguistic proficiency in written English. His special study design also takes into account other factors such as students' attitudes, their motivation, their exposure to English outside the school walls and the so-called "creaming effect" caused by the selection processes that govern the allocation of pupils to CLIL and non-CLIL strands.

Publications & Presentations

Rumlich, D. (2011). Do German CLIL students perform better than their peers in 'regular' classes? Presentation at the "AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics” in Beijing, China, 23-28 August.

Rumlich, D. (2011). Quantitative research and statistics or "The Taming of the shrew". Workshop for Master and PhD students at the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

Rumlich, D. (2011). Exploring New Zealand (English): Why Kiwis drink bears. Guest lecture at the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

Rumlich, D. (2011). Kleines Moodle, große Wirkung. Praxisbeispiele zur Einbindung von Moodle in schulische und universitäre Fremdsprachenlehre. Presentation at the “MoodleMoot” Conference in Elmshorn, 13-14 April.

Rumlich, D. (2011). Learner’s performance in written English. Presentation at the “Junior Research Meeting” of the GAL in Essen, 23-25 March.

Rumlich, D. (2011). Statistics 101: Let data speak. Workshop at the “Junior Research Meeting” of the GAL in Essen, 23-25 March.

Rumlich, D. (2011). CLIL teaching in North-Rhine Westphalia: A comparative study of students’ linguistic accuracy in written English. Presentation at the “Young Researchers Conference” of the DGFF in Berlin.

Rumlich, D. (2011). CLIL teaching and linguistic accuracy: Empirical findings and their implications for foreign language teaching. Presentation at the Langscape Conference “CLIL: Complementing or compromising foreign language teaching” in Frankfurt a. M.

Rumlich, D. (2010). CLIL teaching in North Rhine-Westphalia. Presentation at the DGFF Summer School in Bremen, 27 September - 3 October.

Amels, R., Behrens, F., Rumlich, D., Wehling, H-W. (2010). The Brits on holiday: Eine exemplarische Analyse der (Tourismus-) Strukturen des englischen Seebades Brighton. Guest lecture at the Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe der Koordinatoren in der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Gymnasien mit deutsch-englischem Zweisprachenzug in NRW.

Rumlich, D. (2010). A journey to the other end of the world and back: New Zealand language and culture. Guest lecture at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu.

Rumlich, D. (2008). Learning English - The reading performance of a Japanese ‘SUE' (successful user of English). Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 10, 25-40. Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Department of General and Applied Linguistics.

Classes

Winter term 2011/12

• Analysing learner language
• An Introduction to Bilingual teaching: Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Assessment in theory and practice
• B2 Language Course (Institut für Optionale Studien)

Summer term 2011

• Empirical research in the language classroom: From theory to practice
• B2 Language Course (Institut für Optionale Studien)

Winter term 2010/11

• An Introduction to Bilingual teaching: Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Images of Aotearoa: New Zealand language, identity and culture
• B2 Language Course (Institut für Optionale Studien)

Summer term 2010

• Linguistics in the EFL classroom
• Images of Aotearoa: New Zealand language, identity and culture
• B2 language course (Institut für Optionale Studien)

Winter term 2009/10

• Introduction to EFL didactics
• Images of Aotearoa: New Zealand language, identity and culture
• Content and Language Integrated Learning
• The Language of Psychology (Department of Educational Studies)