Michelle Stannard

Further Information

Curriculum vitae

Michelle Stannard (Dr. Des.) is a Research Associate in TEFL at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Her doctoral dissertation centred around designs for learning with narrative digital games in language education. Additional research interests include digital/media literacies, mobile learning and cultural, textual and task-based approaches in language education.  

Areas of interest

Digital Culture and Media for the EFL Context
Digital Games-Based Language Learning
Mobile Learning
Cultural and Textual Approaches in Language Education
Task-Based Language Learning

Publications

• (2024, Forthcoming) Designs for learning with narrative digital games in EFL education: Negotiating Material-Discursive Frames at the Nexus of Culture, Text and Task. [Doctoral Dissertation].
• (2024) "Theorie und Praxis waren optimal verknüpft." – Professionalisierung von Lehramtsstudierenden in der UNI-Klasse "Moderne Fremdsprachen"". Lehrerbildung@LMU, 3(2), 28-43. https://doi.org/10.5282/LB/65 (with Claudia Mustroph and Annkristin Schwalb).
• (2022) "Short Digital Games as Expressive Media in the EFL Classroom". Anglistik, 33/1, 97-114. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/1/12
• (2022) "Trajectories for Multiliteracies in Foreign Language Education: An Inclusive Paradigm for Challenging Times". In: Lütge, Christiane (ed.): Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age. Theory and Pedagogy for Developing Literacies. Routledge, 255-258. (with Christiane Lütge).
• (2021) "Digital Textualities: Innovative Practices with Social Media, Digital Literatures and Virtual Realities". In: Lütge, Christiane/ Merse, Thorsten (eds.): Digital Teaching and Learning: perspectives for English Language Education. Narr, 231-257. (with Christiane Lütge and Thorsten Merse).
• (2021) "Digitale Schulkooperationen in der UNI-Klasse "Moderne Fremdsprachen im Dialog"". Lehrerbildung@LMU, 1(1), 42-60. https://doi.org/10.5282/lb/15 (with Julia Wuttig).
• (2021) "No way to win: Exploring digital games as a form of Black Lives Matter protest". FUE 55(173), 20–25. (with Marius Ritter and Daniel Becker).
• (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]. https://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2019.9.3.5 (with Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse and Michelle Stannard)
• (2018) "Digitale Spiele im Fremdsprachenunterricht". In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2018 (with Max von Blanckenburg)
• (2018) "Mobiles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Tablets and Smartphones". In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2018 (with Petra Rauschert)
• (2018) "Digital Narratives: Exploring new practices of reading and play". In: Praxis Fremdsprachenunterricht 4/2018 (with Christiane Lütge and Thorsten Merse)

Presentations and Workshops

• "Designs for Learning with Digital Narrative Games in Language Education". Presentation/workshop for the Innovation Hub, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 17.06.2024.
• "Fake it to make it? Soziale Medien im Schutzraum Schule". Video, teacher development seminar, "Digital Together – Bildung in einer digitalen Welt gestalten", Münchner Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, 01.07.2022. (with Lisa Ganser, Sarah Midulla).
• "Zwischen Hashtags und Hate-Speech: Kritisch-reflexive Medienkompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterricht". Workshop, teacher development seminar, "Digital Together – Bildung in einer digitalen Welt gestalten", Münchner Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, 01.07.2022. (project coordination and development, workshop delivered by Annkristin Schwalb, Stefanie Fuchs, Claudia Mustroph, Patrick Sowa).
• "Digitale Medien in Fremdsprachen Bildung". Workshop, UNI-Klasse Moderne Fremdsprachen. 01.10.2021.
• "Empathy & Identity in Short-Form Digital Games: A Consideration of New Textualities for the EFL Classroom". Presentation (symposium) at "Video Games and Foreign Language Teaching", WWU Münster, 12.02.2020.
• "Gametexts and Digital Culture in English as a Foreign Language Education." Presentation (conference) "ECGBL 2018: European Conference on Game Based Learning", Sophia Antipolis, France, 4.10.2018.
• "Telling your story, making the game: an exploratory project in game design for language learners." Poster presentation at "EUROCALL 2018: Future-Proof CALL, Language Learning as Exploration and Encounters", University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 22.08.2018.
• "Digitalization and Literature in Foreign Language Education." Presentation (symposium) at "Language Education Across Borders", University of Graz, Austria, 08.12.2017. (with Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse and Claudia Owczarek)
• "Intractivity in Narrative Apps for the EFL Context." Presentation (discussion group led by Britta Freitag-Hild and Annika Kolb), DGFF 2017: "Sprachen lernen integriert - global, regional, lokal", University of Jena, Jena, 29.09.2018.
• "Digital Culture, Digital Literacies and EFL Education." Presentation (colloquium) at Forschungsforum Fraueninsel, Chiemsee, 18.05.2017.
• "Interactivity in Digital Narratives: Storytelling Apps and the EFL Context" Presentation at "Media Literacy in Foreign Language Education: Digital and Multimodal Perspectives"at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 13.03.2017.
• "Digital Narratives: Storytelling Apps in the EFL Classroom." Workshop, "TEFL Lounge" for Chair of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 22.11.2016

Teaching

• Theorie und Praxis der Unterrichtsgestaltung für Englisch an Grund- und Mittelschule (Multiple terms)
• Theorie und Praxis der Unterrichtsgestaltung für Englisch an Gymnasium und Realschule (Multiple terms)
• Grundlagen der Fremdsprachendidaktik (Multiple terms)
• Gameful Projects in TEFL (Multiple terms)
• Gameful Readings in TEFL (Winter term 2023/2024)
• Media in and around the Curriculum (Multiple terms)
• Design-based research and gameful materials for EFL contexts (Winter term 2021/22)
• Gameful language education: A project-based approach (Summer term 2021)
• Playful texts and tasks in the EFL classroom (Multiple terms)
• Currents and contexts in English language education (MA) (Winter term 2019/20)
• From narrative media to “gameful” language learning (Winter term 2019/20)
• Texts, Tasks and Projects in the Digital Classroom (GY, RS) (Summer term 2019)
• Contemporary Issues in English Language Education (MA) (Multiple terms)
• Digital Culture in EFL Education (Winter term 2018/19)
• Directions in New Media and the EFL Context (Summer term 2018)
• Digital Literacy in the EFL Classroom (Winter term 2016/17)