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Professional Background

Lecturer

Educational Background

2005 Ph.D., Institut für Anglistik (Department of English Studies), Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany.          

1997 M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); Certificate in Teaching Foreign Language, Graduate School of Languages and Educational Linguistics, The Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA. With distinction.        

1995 State-Certified Translator for the English Language (Special Field: Law; Minor: French), Sprachen und Dolmetscherinstitut München (Munich Institute of Languages and Interpreting), Munich, Germany.

Scholarly Interests
Technology-based language teaching and learning, electronic literacies, language play, content-based instruction, task/based teaching and learning, corpus linguistics, sociocultural theory, dynamic assessment, intercultural learning, pragmatic competence, and (electronic) portfolios.

Selected Publications

Fuchs, C. (accepted). Computer-mediated task design: Language student teachers' expectations and realizations. Letras & Letras. 

Vandergriff, I. & Fuchs, C. (accepted). Humor support in synchronous computer-mediated classroom discussions. Humor.

Fuchs, C. (2009a). Digital natives and their self-rated electronic literacy skills: Empirical findings from a survey study in German secondary schools. In R. Oxford & J. Oxford (Eds.), Second language teaching and learning in the net generation (pp. 31-52). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center.

Vandergriff, I. & Fuchs, C. (2009b). Does CMC promote language play? Calico Journal 27(1), 26-47.

Fuchs, C. (2009c). Converting text activities into meaningful tasks: Results from an Internet-mediated student teacher project. In L. Stone & C. Wilson-Duffy (Eds.), Task-Based III: Expanding the range of tasks through the Web (pp. 13-35). International Association for Language Learning and Technology (IALLT).

Fuchs, C. (2008). Electronic Literacy and Media Competence in German Secondary Schools. [Online report.].    

Fuchs, C. (2007). Pre-service teachers as intercultural learners in CMC-based collaboration: The case of The Literature Group. Journal of Intercultural Communication,13, http://www.immi.se/intercultural/nr13/fuchs.htm

Fuchs, C. (2006a). Exploring German pre-service teachers' electronic and professional literacies ReCALL, 18(2), 174-192.

Fuchs, C. (2006b). Computer-mediated negotiation across borders: German-American collaboration in language teacher education. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Europischer Verlag der Wissenschaften.

Fuchs, C. (2005). CMC-based model learning in language teacher education: A German-American telecollaboration. In Thompson, I., & Hiple, D. (Eds.). Selected papers from the 2004 NFLRC symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning and Language Instruction (pp. 141-156). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center, http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/NetWorks/NW44.

Fuchs, C. (2003). Negotiating over a distance: The challenges of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in foreign language teacher education. In M.K. Legutke, & D. Rsler (Eds.), Fremdsprachenlernen mit digitalen Medien.  Beitrge des Giessener Forschungskolloquiums. [Foreign language learning with computer technologies. Articles by the Giessen research colloquium.] (pp. 179-208). Tbingen: Narr.

Fuchs, C. (2001). Munich - Monterey online: Integrating email and chat to foster reading and writing skills in a distance learning course. In Y. Saito-Abbott, R. Donovan, T.F. Abbott, & P. Kennedy, (Eds.), Digital Stream 2000: Emerging technologies in teaching languages and cultures (pp. 147-165). San Diego State University, CA: The Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC).


Carolin Fuchs

Carolin Fuchs

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