User:JoachimGrzega

Joachim Grzega
www.grzega.de

born on 9 September 1971 in Weißenburg (Germany)

Associate Professor at the University of Eichstätt (Germany)


 * 1991-1998 studies at the universities of Eichstätt, Salt Lake City, Paris-Sorbonne, Graz
 * 2000 Dr.phil. (Ph.D.) in Romance, English and German Linguistics
 * 2004 habil.diss. in English and General Linguistics
 * interim professorships at the universities of Münster, Bayreuth, Erfurt, Freiburg (Germany)

Author of 10 books (including Hello World! for teaching English as a global language at primary schools; Tickets to Basic Global English - Englisch in 111 Tagen for self-teaching English; How to Become the Perfect Intercultural Professor: Tricks and Bricks for Intercultural Academic Teaching in English (or Other Languages)) and several dozen articles

Editor of the internet journals Onomasiology Online and Journal for EuroLinguistiX

Founder of the Academy for SocioEconomic Linguistics (ASEcoLi)

Internet Projects

 * EuroLinguistiX (ELiX) - platform with discussion forum, materials, academic journal and project wiki
 * Basic Global English (BGE), a concept for teaching English as a lingua franca to beginners, with school project
 * Onomasiology Online (OnOn)
 * Sprachwissenschaft für die Öffentlichkeit - collection og predominantly student papers for interested laypersons and teachers
 * the didactic model Lernen durch Lehren (LdL)

Research Interests

 * eurolinguistics
 * onomasiology
 * public-oriented linguistics/practical linguistics, linguistics for the public
 * intelligible linguistics
 * linguistic economics/socioeconomic linguistics, linguistics and knowledge society (basic article)
 * Austrian German
 * language contacts
 * intercultural communication
 * teaching English as an international language (Basic Global English)
 * didactic issues at university (especially Learning by teaching -- cf. my English article)

Current projects

 * article on Eurolinguistics
 * project in the German Wikiversity: European Sociolingistics
 * book project: Basic Linguistics – An Alternative Introduction to Language and Languages
 * course project: Introduction to Applied Historical English Linguistics
 * webpage Teaching English as a lingua franca

Working for Wikipedia
Cf. my Wikipedia user profile.

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