Dr. Claudia Mustroph (born: Owczarek)

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Curriculum vitae

Claudia Mustroph (née Owczarek) studied at the University of Göttingen and the Paris-Sorbonne University. She holds a master’s degree in ‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’ (TEFL), in ‘Teaching French as a Foreign Language’ and in Philosophy. From 2010 to 2012, she was a scholar of the Hertie Foundation. In September 2016, Claudia Owczarek joined the Chair of TEFL at LMU Munich as a research associate.

In her doctoral thesis, Claudia conducted a mixed-methods-study on teachers' beliefs on multimodal literature in the EFL classroom. Her PhD project was completed with distinction (summa cum laude) in February 2022.

Claudia Mustroph is a member of the DGFF (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung) and alumnus of the Graduate School Language and Literature Munich (Class of Language Education). She is also a member of a third-party funded ERASMUS+ project on digital citizenship education in the foreign language classroom with project partners from Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Latvia (DiCE.Lang consortium).

Research interests

• Multiliteracies, multimodality, media literacy
• Digital literacy and literary learning
• Literature in foreign language teaching and learning
• Transcultural learning and digital citizenship education in EFL

Publications

• (2023, in prep.) „Digitalität als Lerngegenstand“. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung.
• (2022). Zum Einsatz multimodaler Literatur im Englischunterricht: Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie zu den Überzeugungen bayerischer Lehrkräfte. LIT Verlag.
• (2022) „Intercultural Education through Civic Engagement: Service Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom.” In: McConachy, T., Golubeva, I. & Wagner, M. (Eds.). Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices. Multilingual Matters. 149-167. (with Petra Rauschert).
• (2021) „In Real Life – Smart Gamer Girls advancing.” Englisch 5-10, 54(2). 18-21.
• (2020) "Digital Teaching and Learning: A Practical View.“ In: Lütge, Christiane & Merse, Thorsten, Eds.: Digital Teaching and Learning: Perspectives for English Language Education. Tübingen: Narr. 258-272.
• (2020) „Explore, Create, Collaborate: Open Educational Resources im Fremdsprachenunterricht.” In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht. 8-11. (with Christiane Lüge)
• (2019) „Konflikte friedlich lösen lernen - Zur Förderung demokratischer Kompetenzen im Fremdsprachenunterricht.“ In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2019 (with Petra Rauschert).
• (2019) "Crossovers: Digitalization and Literature in Foreign Language Education", in: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, special issue 'Boarder Crossing in Language Education', 519-540 [peer-reviewed article]. (with Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse and Michelle Stannard).
• (2019) „Zur Rolle von Musik im kompetenzorientierten Fremdsprachenunterricht - audio literacy als Teil von multiliteracies.“ In: Falkenhagen, Charlott/Volkmann, Laurenz. Musik im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Tübingen: Narr. (with Christiane Lütge).
• (2018) „Digitales Lernen im Englischunterricht.“ In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2018 (with Christiane Lütge and Thorsten Merse).
• (2018) „Producing digital texts. Das Potential von digital storytelling im Englischunterricht nutzen.“ In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2018.
• (2018) „Bildung in der digitalen Welt: eine Querschnittsaufgabe alles Fächer.“ In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2018.
• (2018) „(Zu)hören im Medienzeitalter.“ In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 3/2018.
• (2017) "Intercultural Learning in the English Classroom through Chester Brown's Graphic Novel 'Louis Riel: A Comic‐Strip Biography'." Teaching Canada – Enseigner Le Canada. Wißner-Verlag. 267–276.
• (2017) "Summer Season Is Festival Season." Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2017.

Presentations and Workshops

• “Zwischen Hashtags und Hate-Speech: Kritisch-reflexive Medienkompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterricht“. Workshop at the teacher training day “Digital Together – Bildung in einer digitalen Welt gestalten”, Münchner Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, 01.07.2022, online.
• “Digitaler Fremdsprachenunterricht: Perspektiven und Potentiale.“ Presentation for the Stiftung Bildungspakt Bayern. 02.05.2022. (online, with Christiane Lütge).
• “Welche Überzeugungen haben Lehrkräfte zu Innovationen im Englischunterricht? Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie am Beispiel von multimodaler Literatur.“ Presentation at the DGFF-Kongress "Standortbestimmungen", Universität Duisburg-Essen, 16.09.2021, online.
• “Multimodal Literature in the EFL Classroom – Exploring German EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices.” Presentation at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Universität Groningen, Niederlande, 17.08.2021, online.
• “Service Learning in Foreign Language Education: Peace Education hands-on.” Workshop with Petra Rauschert at the TEFL Day 2019: Global Education in the EFL Classroom, LMU Munich, 26.03.2019.
• "Zum Einsatz multimodaler Literatur im Englischunterricht - eine empirische Studie zu den Vorstellungen von bayrischen Lehrkräften im Sekundarschulbereich.“ Presentation at the DGFF Arbeitstagung für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, Gießen, 12- 13 March, 2019.
• "Digitalization and Literature in Foreign Language Education." Symposium at the international conference "Language Education Across Borders", University of Graz, Austria, 08.12.2017. (together with Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse and Michelle Stannard)
• „Vom Smombie zum digital citizen - Förderung kritisch-reflexiver Medienkompetenz im Englischunterricht." Workshop at the teacher training day Digitale Bildung – zwischen Hype & Hybris, Münchner Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, 10.10.2018.
• "Multimodal Literature in the EFL Classroom - Exploring German EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Practices." Presentation at the 3rd International Psychology of Language Learning Conference (PLL3), Tokyo, June 7-10, 2018.
• "Multimodal Literature in the EFL Classroom – A Study of German EFL Teachers' Beliefs." Presentation at the AILA Junior Researcher's Meeting in Applied Linguistics, Vienna, 07.09.2017.
• "Zum Einsatz multimodaler Literatur im Englischunterricht – eine empirische Studie zu den Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften im Sekundarschulbereich." Presentation at Forschungsforum Fraueninsel, Chiemsee, 18.05.2017.
• "So, what else can it do?" – Towards Critical Media Literacy in the EFL Classroom." Presentation at the conference "Media Literacy in Foreign Language Education: Digital and Multimodal Perspectives"at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 13.03.2017.
• "Intercultural Learning in the English Classroom through Chester Brown's Graphic Novel 'Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography'." Presentation at the conference "Teaching Canada" at the University of Marburg, 27.06.2015.

Teaching

• WÜ: Digitality in EFL Teaching (GY, RS) (summer term 2023)
• HS: Research Methodology (summer term 2023)
• WÜ: Texts in EFL Teaching (GY, RS) (winter term 2022/23)
• Lektürekurs: Current Issues in English Language Education (summer term 2022)
• Multimodal Literacies: Foreign Language Teaching in the Era of Digital Media (summer term 2020)
• Forschungsseminar: Graphic Narratives in TEFL (summer term 2020)
• WÜ: Multimodal Texts in the EFL Classroom (GY, RS) (summer term 2019)
• Uniklasse: Digital Media in the EFL Literature Classroom (summer term 2018)
• Forschungsseminar: Exploring the Potential of Intercultural Learning in the Production-oriented Literature Classroom (summer term 2018)
• WÜ: Literature in the EFL Classroom (summer term 2017)
• Theorie und Praxis der Unterrichtsgestaltung für Englisch mit/ohne Praktikum (GY, RS) (multiple terms)
• Grundlagen der Fremdsprachendidaktik (multiple terms)