Room: R12 R04 A19
Office hours: Please consult the official list of office hours
Tel.: 0201-183-3541
e-mail: frauke.matz@uni-due.de

 

Biographical Information     

 

Professional Experience

Since Feb. 2011

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Lecturer for EFL teaching methodology

Sept. 2009 - Feb. 2011

Cecilien-Gymnasium, Düsseldorf, Germany

Teacher of English & History

Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2009

Rossall School, Fleetwood, England

Teacher of German, Year 9 Tutor, Deputy House Parent of Anchor House

Sept. 2005 – Aug. 2006

Kings Norton Girls’ School, Birmingham, England

Graduate Trainee Teacher

Oct. 2004 – Aug. 2005

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Hickey, Linguistics

Sept. 2000-June 2004

University of Wolverhampton, England

German Language Assistant & Tutor, German Department

 

Educational history

Oct. 2007

Rossall School,   Independent School Council, Kings’ School Macclesfield

Newly Qualified Teachers Status

Oct. 2006

University of Essen, Germany

Doctorate (equivalent to PhD) in English Studies

July 2006

CILT London & University of  

Birmingham, England

Graduate Teacher

June 2004

Languages Department, University of Wolverhampton & Trinity College, London England

TESOL Trinity College Certificate

Dec. 2003

Languages Department, University of Wolverhampton, England

MA English Studies

June 2000

University of Essen, Germany

First State Exam in English Studies, History and Education

Feb. 1999-March 2000

Dumfries High school, Scotland

German Language Assistant

Sept. 1997-Feb. 1998

Department of Humanities, University of Sunderland, England

ERASMUS exchange year

June 1995

Gesamtschule Gelsenkirchen Ückendorf

Abitur


 

Areas of Research and Teaching

Teaching Methodology of Literature

Intercultural/Transcultural Learning (ICC)

Differentiation

Task-Based Language Learning (TBLL)

 

Publications

-          He simply went to pieces – Literarische Reaktionen auf das Phänomen der Kriegsneuose. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2007.  (Dissertation)

-          Hrsg. zusammen mit Michael Rogge: Exploring Australian Identities -  Short stories of the Australien Experience. EinFach Englisch. Braunschweig: Schöningh, 2011.

 

Forthcoming:

-          ‚Britkids’ & Benjamin Zephaniah: We are Britain! In: R. Ahrens, M. Eisenmann & J. Hammer (Hrgs.):  Literatur im Interkulturellen Kontext. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.

-          Hrsg. zusammen mit Michael Rogge: Four Weddings and A Funeral. EinFach Englisch. Braunschweig: Schöningh, 2012.

 

 Teaching


Summer 2011

-          Introduction to EFL-Methodology

-          Kolloquium zu den Schulpraktische Studien

-          Teaching Short Stories (in cooperation with Michael Rogge, University of Bochum)

-          Shadowy Objects in Test-Tubes: Teaching Dystopian Fiction

-          Teaching Shakespeare – Romeo & Juliet and Much ado about Nothing

-          Salaam Brick Lane – British Asians  - The Role of New English Literatures

-          Teaching Children’s Fiction

 

Winter 2011/12

-          Introduction to EFL-Methodology

-          Kolloquium zu den Schulpraktische Studien

-          English in the classroom

-          Literature for younger Learners

-          The American Dream Then and Now: Mexican Immigration into the USA

-          Salaam Brick Lane – British Asians  - The Role of New English Literatures

-          Assessment in Theory and Practise (with Dominik Rumlich)

-          Teaching Shakespeare – Romeo & Juliet and Much ado about Nothing

-          Shadowy Objects in Test-Tubes: Teaching Dystopian Fiction

 

Summer 2012

-          Introduction to EFL-Methodology

-          Kolloquium zu den Schulpraktische Studien

-          English in the classroom

-          Teaching Literature (in cooperation with Michael Rogge, University of Bochum, & Dr. Eva Wilden, University of  Frankfurt)

-          Teaching British Asian Literature and Film

-          Short Fiction in the English Language Classroom

-          Young Adult Fiction of Migration

-          ICC through Teaching Literature