Biographical Information Markus Ritter

Markus Ritter is head of the ELT section at the Department of English, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Apart from his current position, he has worked and lectured at universities in Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Siegen and Essen, and has taught German as a foreign language in Britain. He is also an author of various multimedia programs, most notably the English Coach software series for EFL in the German secondary sector. He completed his PhD in 1994 at the University of Münster on the integration of computers in a project- and task-based language classroom. His main research interests lie in the integration of digital media into the language classroom, and new approaches to teacher education.