Albert Biel

Albert Biel (he/him) works as a research assistant in EFL Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Studies and Primary Education (German, Maths and General Education), and a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. He is also a CELTA-certified English teacher. During his studies, he spent a year in York, UK. From 2017 to 2020, Albert Biel, was working as an editor in the department of adult education for German as a foreign/second language and modern languages at Cornelsen. He previously held a research assistant position at TU Dortmund University.

His main research interests revolve around social justice and diversity, and their role in ELT. In his research, he focusses on how English teachers deal with issues of identity and diversity in their language classrooms. He is part of the UDE-based Graduiertenkolleg zu querschnittlichen Fragen der Lehrkräftebildung (GKQL), which is a graduate college that researches cross-sectional challenges and priorities in teacher education. In his PhD project at the GKQL, he is concerned with reconstructing queer teaching and learning approaches in German ELT classrooms. 

M. A. Albert Biel

Geisteswisschaften/Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Anschrift
Univeritätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Raum
R12 R04 A19
Telefon
+49 201 183 3541
E-Mail
albert.biel@uni-due.de
Webseite
https://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/applied_linguistics_didactics/biel_albert
Sprechzeiten
February/March 2025: only via Zoom: please send an email to make an appointment.

Funktionen

  • Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Anglistik: Didaktik des Englischen - EFL Education

Biel, A. & Esleben, F. M. (eds.) (in print). Social Justice in Language Education: Taking Action. Multilingual Matters.

Biel, A. & Esleben (in print). Taking Action: A Journey towards Social Justice in Language Education. In: A. Biel & F. M. Esleben (eds.), Social Justice in Language Education: Taking Action. Multilingual Matters.

Johnson, S. M., Randolph Jr., L.J. & Biel, A. (in print). The Theory, Research, and Practice of Social Justice in Language Classrooms: An Interview. In: A. Biel & F. M. Esleben (eds.), Social Justice in Language Education: Taking Action. Multilingual Matters.

Biel, A. (2023). Sunny Man Chu Lau and Saskia Van Viegen (eds.): Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language in Education. Applied linguistics, 44(2), 386-389.

Biel, A. (2021). Timothy G. Reagan and Terry A. Osborn: World Language Education as Critical Pedagogy - The Promise of Social Justice. System, 100.

Biel, A. (2019). Complexity and qualitative lexical knowledge: A corpus-based study on the use of TAKE in German Learner English. In: S. Götz & J Mukherjee (eds.), Learner corpora and language teaching (pp. 51-73). John Benjamins.

Hertzel, L. & Biel, A. (October 24th, 2024). Engaging with Power Structures in ELT Materials. Invited Lecture. Zurich University.

Biel, A. (September 27th, 2024). Not if, but how? Gender and sexual diversity in ELT materials in Germany. Embracing Diversity, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Halle (Saale).

Biel, A. & Hertzel, L. (July 9th, 2024). Intersectionality and Critical Language Awareness: Unlocking Their Potential in/for English Language Education. Association for Language Awareness International conference: Language Awareness, Education and Power. Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe.

Biel, A. (April 16th, 2024). Representation is good representation? Queer perspectives in German ELT. International Association for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) conference. Brighton, UK.

Biel, A. (March 13th, 2023). Rekonstruktionen queerer Lehr-Lern-Prozesse im Englischunterricht durch eine Interviewstudie: Fragen des Samplings und der Rekrutierung. DGFF Nachwuchstagung Findungsphasen. Universität Münster, Münster.

Biel, A. (September 1st-3rd, 2022). Social Justice Education in ELT in Germany – Conceptual Contexts and Teachers’ Voices”, BAAL Conference 2022, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Biel, A. (Organiser) (February, 2022). Taking Action conference on Social Justice in Language Classrooms and Teacher Education. TU Dortmund University, Dortmund.

Biel, A. (January, 2021). PFAL – From an Idea to a YSJU Stable”, 6th Postgraduate Forum on Applied Linguistics, York St. John University, York, UK.

Biel, A. (January, 2017). Uncovering the Why – The Role of Motivation in Mobile Assisted Language Learning", (Invited talk), Universität Koblenz, Koblenz.

Biel, A. (July, 2016). "Complexity and Qualitative Lexical Knowledge - A Corpus-based Study on the Use of Take in
German Learner English", 12th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference TaLC, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Gießen.

Biel, A. (July 2016). Tell Me Why – Motivation and Mobile Assisted Language Learning, Nachwuchstagung Englische Linguistik, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg.

Biel, A. (April, 2016). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, (Workshop) April 2016, York St. John University, York, UK.

Biel, A. (Founder and Organiser of the first instalment) (January, 2016) PFAL (Postgraduate Forum on Applied Linguistics). York St. John University, York, UK.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF)

British Association for Applied Linguistics