Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel
Professor of Educational Science in Multilingual Contexts
DivER - Diversity in Education Research
Address
University of Hamburg
Faculty of Education
Department of General, Intercultural and International Comparative Education as well as Educational Psychology (EW1)
Von-Melle-Park 8
20146 Hamburg
Office
Room: 509, Alsterterrasse 1 (visitor address)
Office hours
Please choose a time slot in the office hours calendar (German language).
Contact
Tel: +49 40 428 38-3091
Fax: +49 40 428 38-4298
Secretary's office
Foreign language assistance
Department of General, Intercultural and International Comparative Education as well as Educational Psychology (EW1)
Von-Melle-Park 8
20146 Hamburg
Room: 429b
Tel: +49 40 42838-5998
Consultation hours
Curriculum Vitae
born in 1974 in Braunschweig, two children
Academic Career
- since 10/2011 W2-Professor for Education with special emphasis on education in multilingual contexts, Faculty of Education, Universität Hamburg.
- 04/2010 – 09/2011 Junior professor with the focus "Language diagnostics in the context of bi- and multilingualism" at Universität zu Köln, Faculty of Humanities (Pilot Course Program in Education, module "German for students with immigration background").
- 12/2008 – 03/2010 Lecturer for the field "Language diagnostics in the context of bi- and multilingualism with a focus on formative assessment" at the "Center for Diagnostics and Assistance" at Universität zu Köln, Faculty of Humanities.
- 09/2009 – 12/2009 Freelance research associate in the field of "Diagnostics and language promotion" of the pilot program "Support of children and youth with migrant background (FörMig)" at Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Education, Department of General, Intercultural and International Comparative Education.
- 08/2005 – 08/2009 Research assistant in the topical focus "Language support based on individual language proficiency assessments" of the BLK pilot program "Support of children and youth mith migrant background (FörMig)" at Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Education, Department of General, Intercultural and International Comparative Education.
- 04/2005 – 10/2005 Research assistant in the research project "Evaluation of bilingual childcare facilities in Cologne" at Universität zu Köln, Faculty of Education, Department of Intercultural Education.
- 2008 Doctoral degree (PhD) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Department of Education and Rehabilitation.
Studies
- 04/2003 – 02/2008 Doctoral studies: Language Pathology (major subject), Psycholinguistics and Social Psychology (minor subjects). Degree: Summa cum laude
- 10/1994 – 06/2000 Studies in Special Education at Universität zu Köln, Faculty of Special Education; subjects: Language Pathology, Support in Early Childhood, Psychology, and General Education.
Scholarship/Awards
- 04/2003 – 07/2005 Doctoral scholarship of the Hans Böckler Foundation
- 01/2001 Advancement award of the German Federal Association of Speech and Language Pathologists (dbs) honoring the diploma thesis.
Vocational Activities
- since 2002 Instructor in professional development and vocational training for the topics Multilingualism and Language Education.
- 05/2002 - 07/2005 Language Support Teacher for students with German as a second language in years 5, 6 and 7 of the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Cologne as part of the Xenos project "Give diversity a chance" run by RAA NRW.
- 09/2000 - 03/2002 Language Pathologist at the speech therapy practice of Wiltrud Schoke-Banken in Neuss.
Functions and Offices
- Chairwoman of the local organizing committee of the ECER 2019 "Education in an era of risk - The role of educational research for the future" (2.-6.9.2019).
- Spokeswoman of the department EW 1 during summer term 2018 and winter term 2018/19;
Deputy-spokeswoman of the department EW 1 during winter term 2017/18 and summer term 2019. - Chairwoman of both the Joint Committee and the Examination Board of the Master's program Multilingual Educational Linguistics - MOTION at Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Education
- Member of the Admission Committee to the Master's Degree Educational Science
- Program Manager of the Bachelor and Master Courses in Educational Science at Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Education, until 04/2016.
Membership of Editorial Boards and Boards of Advisors
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the publication series "Intercultural Education Research" at Waxmann, Münster (since May 2020)
- Expert in the scientific advisory board on Early Multilingual Education in Luxembourg's Child Daycare from 2017 until 2021.
- Co-editor of Tertium Comparationis. Journal for International and Intercultural Comparative Education. Münster: Waxmann.
- Member of the scientific advisory board of Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung. Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Memberships and Honorary Offices
- Council of Migration (Rat für Migration)
- German Educational Research Association (DGfE), Division Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Research (Subdivision Intercultural Education), www.dgfe.de
- Mentor at Hans Böckler Foundation www.boeckler.de
Teaching
Please refer to STiNE for the courses of the current term.
Field of Teaching:
Education with a focus on multilingualism, language diagnostics, language education, and intercultural education.
Information for examinees / for composing seminar papers or degree theses
Authorization to examine students in the following degree programs:
All teacher training degree programs, B.A./M.A. Educational Science, MOTION, Diploma, Magister, Doctoral studies
Information for seminar papers and degree theses:
I take it for granted that you have successfully attended at least one of my courses. Please sign up well in advance of your submission deadline for my office hours.
Two months before you begin to write, at the latest, we discuss in person your topic and its leading question from the field of language and/or intercultural education. As a basis for this meeting, please bring (in writing and printed out!) your ideas for your topic/leading question including the results of your corresponding literature review. Based on this, you will afterwards draw up a synopsis for your paper. The manual (in German) of the writing coach Imke Lange might help you with this.
While writing, you may consult the "Guideline for writing seminar papers" (in German) of the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Please make sure to follow the formal specifications named in this guideline.
This list containing further reading and links on academic writing might also be helpful.
Advice and further information is also provided by the University Writing Centre.
Information for literature research:
Specialized databases, library catalogues and Internet resources are listed here.
Projects
Research
Dodo - Diagnostics of early Turkish-German literacy. Cooperative project of UHH and Universität Wien (German site only)
- Project duration: 1.9.2020 till 31.8.2021
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel und Prof. Dr. Inci Dirim. Research fellow at UHH: Aybike Savac.
- Funding: Freundenberg Foundation
- Results: Analytical tool ELA (German only)
"SprabiPiKs - Language Support Professionals in Multilingual Childcare Facilities". Cooperative project of UHH and the Foundation Universität Hildesheim (SUH).
- Project duration: 08/2018 till 03/2022.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel and Prof. Dr. Elke Montanari. Research fellows: Dr. Tanja Salem and Barbara Graßer.
- Funding: BMBF as part of the funding guideline "Quality development for good education in early childhood".
„Professional teacher's actions to promote subject-based learning under changing social conditions (ProfaLe)“. Action Area 2: Linguistic-cultural heterogeneity.
- Project duration: 06/2015 till 12/2018 (phase 1) and 1/2019 till 12/2023 (phase 2).
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel and Prof. Dr. Kristin Bührig. Research fellows: Dr. des. Imke Lange, Ilse Stangen.
- Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "Teacher Education Quality Campaign".
"Evaluation of the project Rucksack Schule"
- Project duration: 01/2015 till 12/2018.
- Head of project: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, project coordination: Dr. Vesna Ilic.
- Cooperation partner: Regional Coordination Unit for Local Integration Centres (LaKI) in North-Rhine Westphalia, district Unna.
- Funding: Freudenberg Foundation
"Home language instruction in Hamburg - A study on the significance of home language instruction from parent's perspective (HUBE)" (description in German)
- Project duration: 04/2015 till 12/2016.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, Prof. Dr. Ursula Neumann.
- Funding: own funds and Mercator Foundation
"Campus Languages" Subproject of the research association "Multilingualism as a Resource of the Sustainable University" within the "UHH Center for a Sustainable University (KNU)"
- Project duration: 07/2015 till 09/2016
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Ingrid Gogolin and Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, research fellow: Tobias Schroedler.
- Funding: Executive University Board of UHH, and KNU
Member of the FörMig-Competence Centre (Co-coordination)
- 10/2011 till 12/2013
"Diversity in the teachers' staff room?! Study conditions, motivation for choice of profession and empowerment for pre-service teachers with migrant background"
- Project duration: 09/2010 till 9/2011.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel and Lisa Rosen.
- Results: Lengyel, D. & Rosen, L. (eds.) (2015): Minority teachers in different educational contexts - Recent studies from three German-speaking countries. Tertium Comparationis. Journal for International und Intercultural Comparative Education. 21(2). Münster: Waxmann.
Chapters:
Lengyel, D. & Rosen, L. (2015): Minority teachers in different educational contexts: Introduction. pp. 153-160.
Lengyel, D. & Rosen, L. (2015): Diversity in the staff room - Ethnic minority student teachers' perspectives on the recruitment of minority teachers. pp. 161-184.
"FörMig: Formative assessment of literacy development". An instrument to observe academic language development during lower secondary school (description in German)
- since 2006
"Second language acquisition in childcare facilities". An integrative view on the linguistic and cognitive development of multilingual children. Dissertation project (in German)
- Project duration: 2003-2007.
Transfer
Practical course of lectures for the project "One square kilometer of education (Ein Quadratkilometer Bildung)"
- Project duration: 04/2017 till 03/2020
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel. Research fellows: Maria Schmitz, Ute Michel
- Funding: Freudenberg Foundation
Development of Blended Learning Units for the Basic Course "Continuous Language Education" within BiSS (description in German)
- Project duration: 06/2015 till 06/2017.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, research fellow: Ute Michel, M.A..
- Funding: Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education, program "Education through spoken and written language (Bildung durch Sprache und Schrift, BISS), supported by BMBF/BMFSFJ.
"Language Education in the context of multilingualism - Challenges in theory and practice" - a project within the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU) (description in German)
- Project duration: 08/2015 till 03/2017.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, research fellow: Ute Michel, M.A..
- Funding: Hamburg Authority for Science and Research
E-learning courses for in-service training of language education coordinators (description in German)
- Project duration: ongoing since 2011.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, research fellow: Ute Michel, M.A..
- Funding: Senate Administration for Education, Youth and Science (Berlin)
Development of an e-learning course for in-service training in "welcome classes" (description in German)
- Project duration: 01/2016 till 12/2016.
- Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Drorit Lengyel, research fellow: Ute Michel, M.A..
- Funding: Senate Administration for Education, Youth and Science (Berlin) and Office for Scientific Further Education of Universität Hamburg.
Publications in English Language
For a full list of publications, please refer to the German site.
- Rosen, L., & Lengyel, D. (in press). Research on Minority Teachers in Germany: Developments, Focal Points and Current Trends from the Perspective of Intercultural Education. In M. Gutmann, W. Zayusi, M. Beck, & Z. Bekermann (Eds.), To be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture: Empirical Evidence from an International Perspective. SpringerNature B.V..
- Schroedler, T., Lengyel, D., Budde, J., Claus, C., Weuster, N., & Doden, K. (2022). Remote learning and its effects on the well-being of primary school learners in Germany. Education 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2022.2029525
- Salem., T., Braband, J. & Lengyel, D. (2020). Parental Cooperation in Early Childhood Education in Germany – Bridging Language Barriers in Multilingual Settings. In. Kirsch, C. & Duarte, J. (eds.) (2020) Multilingual approaches for teaching and learning. From acknowledging to capitalizing on multilingualism in European mainstream education. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Lengyel, D., Schroedler, T., & Grommes, P. (2020). Editorial: Special Issue: Linguistic Diversity and its Challenges for Educational Institutions and Teacher Professionalisation. European journal of applied linguistics, 8(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2019-0046
- Salem, T., Lengyel, D., Graßer, B., & Montanari, E. (2020). Language Education Professionals in Multilingual ECEC Institutions – Sprachbildungsprofis in mehrsprachigen Kitas. European journal of applied linguistics, 8(1), 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2019-0042
- Lengyel, D. & Rosen, L. (Eds.) (2015): Minority teachers in different educational contexts - Recent studies from three German-speaking countries. Tertium Comparationis. Journal for International and Intercultural Comparative Education. 21(2). Münster: Waxmann.
- Lengyel, D. & Rosen, L. (2015): Minority teachers in different educational contexts: Introduction. In: Dies.: Minority teachers in different educational contexts - Recent studies from three German-speaking countries. Tertium Comparationis. Journal for International and Intercultural Comparative Education. 21(2). Münster: Waxmann, pp. 153-160.
- Lengyel, D. & Rosen, L. (2015): Diversity in the staff room - Ethnic minority student teachers' perspectives on the recruitment of minority teachers. In: Dies.: Minority teachers in different educational contexts - Recent studies from three German-speaking countries. Tertium Comparationis. Journal for International and Intercultural Comparative Education. 21(2). Münster: Waxmann, pp. 161-184.
- Lengyel, D. (2012): Early Childhood Education in Multilingual Settings. In: Bekerman, Z. & Geisen, T. (Eds.): International Handbook on Migration, Minorities, and Education – Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning. New York et al.: Springer, pp. 169-187.
- Lengyel, D. (2010): Language diagnostics in multilingual settings with respect to continuous procedures as accompaniment of individualized learning and teaching. Papers and resources on linguistic and educational integration of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Lectures in academia and for expert audiences in English language
For a full list, please refer to the German site.
- 6.9.2021 (together with Tanja Salem): Team Beliefs Concerning Multilingualism and Language Education in ECEC Institutions. ECER 2021, Geneva, NW 31 Language and Education, Symposium Developing Multilingual Practices and Multiliteracies in ECEC – Perspectives of Educators on Multilingualism, Collaboration, and Multilingual Pedagogies.
- 9.9.2021: Content-based Language Teaching for the Teaching of Refugee Students: Pre-Service Teacher Preparation in Germany ECER 2021, Geneva, NW 7 Intercultural Education and Social Justice, Symposium „Comparative Institutional Analysis of Pre-Servie Teacher Prepartion for Teaching Refugee Students: Canada, Germany, & the USA”
- 8.10.2019: Teacher Education in Germany in Times of New Migration and Flight – Insights from the ProfaLe Project. University of Calgary, Werklund School of Education
- 4.9.2018 (together with Tobias Schroedler): Dealing with Multilingualism in the Classroom: An Intervention Study on Skill Development among Pre-Service Maths and Sciences Teachers at the er ECER 2018 in Bolzano, Italy
- 16.3.2017: Keynote on Home languages and home language instruction in the German education system at the „Bridging Language Barriers Symposion”, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- 12.11.2015: „Multilingual Spaces? Non-Formal Education in Early Childhood In-Between Multilingual Institutions“. As part of the Lecture Series „Spaces of Non-Formal Education in Early Childhood“ of the Research Group „Early Childhood: Education and Care“ at Universität Luxemburg
- 8.7.2015: „Building Plurilingual Identities in Early Childhood Education“. As part of the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years (TFIEY), Meeting 6: Multilingualism, identity and diversity in the early years in Washington, DC, (USA).
- 19.9.2012: „Diversity in the Staff Room - Perspectives on the Recruitment of Ethnic Minority Teachers by Migrant Students in Teacher Education“. As part of the European Conference on Educational Resarch (ECER), Cadiz (Spanien).
Organized conferences
- ECER 2019: Education in an era of risk - the role of educational research for the future in Hamburg, vom 2. bis 6.9.2021.
Organized syposia
- ECER 2021, Geneva, NW 31 Language and Education, Symposium Developing Multilingual Practices and Multiliteracies in ECEC – Perspectives of Educators on Multilingualism, Collaboration, and Multilingual Pedagogies.
- Recent Studies on Minority Teachers in (Non-)European Education Systems“. Together with Lisa Rosen as part of the European Conference on Educational Resarch (ECER), Porto (Portugal) on 05.09.2014.
- „Potentials and Challenges of Diversity in Pre-Service Teacher Education – Innovations in Three German-Speaking European Countries“. Together with Lisa Rosen as part of the European Conference on Educational Resarch (ECER), Istanbul (Türkei) on 11.09.2013.