Research: Projects & Publications

• Digital Literacy and Literary Learning
• Literature, Media and Film in Foreign Language Teaching
• Global Citizenship Education
• Children's Literature in Foreign Language Teaching
• Professionalisation in Teaching and Teacher Education

Current Projects: 

• "Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age: Theory and Pedagogy for Developing Literacies" (book project), published in 2022, New York: Routledge
• "Digital Teaching and Learning: Perspectives for English language Education?" (book project with Thorsten Merse), published in 2021, Narr Studienbücher
• DigitaLiterature: Research on literature apps in English language education
  The research project 'DigitaLiterature' is an immediate response to the growing range of literary texts that come in a digital app format. It integrates conceptual and empirical research approaches in order to renegotiate and consolidate the changing nature and status of literature in English language education in view of current digital transformations. With its rigorous multi-disciplinary design (including the research trajectories of ELT pegagoy, digital literacies, literary studies and games theory), 'DigitaLiterature aims to:
  - model the ELT potential of literature apps according to features of functionality, interactivity, narrativitiy
     and learner/reader roles,
  - develop a tagged database corpus of available literature apps,
  - provide typologies of tasks and classroom procedures for using literature apps in concrete learning and teaching
     scenarios,
  - innovate aspects of cultural, global and literary learning vis-à-vis the use of digital literature,
  - conceptualize competences necessary for learners to engage with literature apps,
  - integrate digital literature into teacher education (e.g. in the context of the UNI-Klasse Moderne
     Fremdsprachen).
  'DigitaLiterature' is an ongoing research project launched in 2016. Continuous research activities include presentations at conferences and symposia worldwide (e.g. Germany, Greece, USA, Chile and Austria), as well as a range of publications such as 'DigitaLiterature: Potenziale mediengestützen Lernens im fremdsprachlichen Literaturunterricht' (2019; Lütge/Merse), 'Crossovers: Digitalization and Literature in Foreign Language Education' (2019; Lütge/Merse/Owczarek/Stannard), 'Digital, transcultural and global? Reconsidering the role of litrature in the EFL classroom' (2018; Lütge), and 'Digital narratives: Exploring new practices of reading and play' (2018; Lütge/Merse/Stannard).
• Editorship of the special issue 2018/4 "Digitales Lernen" in Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht

• Christiane Lütge & Max von Blanckenburg (eds) (2021): Drama in Foreign Language Education. Texts & Performances. Münster: LIT Verlag. 

• SMART VHB - "KOMPETENZORIENTIERT ENGLISCH UNTERRICHTEN" Entwicklung von acht Blended-Learning Einheiten für die Grundlagenveranstaltungen der Lehrerbildung in der englischen Fachdidaktik (project funded by Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern; September 2019 - August 2020)

Global Citizenship Education

Current Projects:

• Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse, Petra Rauschert (eds, in print). Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections. Routledge

• Global Peace Path (by Petra Rauschert and Claudia Owczarek)

Completed Projects:

• Narratives of Injustice and a Quilt of Hope (by Petra Rauschert, Melina Porto, Manuela Wagner and Sandra Sirota)
• Fostering Democratic Competences in Learners: A Cross-Curricular, Multimodal Storybook Approach (by Petra Rauschert)
• International Conference, Spring 2019: Global Citizenship and Foreign Language Education
• "Global Education in English Language Teaching" (book project), ed. by Christiane Lütge, published 2015, Münster: LIT

Children's Literature in Foreign Language Teaching

Professionalisation in Teaching and Teacher Education

Current Projects:

• UNI-Klasse "Modern Languages in Dialogue – Languages, Media, Cultures": A classroom observation and videography project focused on the development, research and testing of foreign language teaching concepts concerning languages, media and culture while providing student teachers with further opportunities for reflection in practice (BMBF project funded by Lehrerbildung@LMU)
• TEFL Day, yearly event on current teacher education, topic-based
• Digital media in foreign language teacher education, LMU Media certificate

Completed Projects:

• "Fremdsprachendidaktik und Lehrerbildung. Konzepte, Impulse, Perspektiven" (book project), ed. by Gabriele Blell and Christiane Lütge, published 2012, Münster: LIT