Contact

Dr. phil. Irina Ezhova-Heer

Institute of German Studies  (» Postal address)

A10 2-217 (» Adress and map)

freitags von 18:00-19:00 Uhr, online nach Voranmeldung

+49 441 798-2046  (F&P) 

Dr phil. Irina Ezhova-Heer

lecturer for special tasks

Schreibdidaktik
Spracherwerb
Kontrastive Linguistik
Deutsch als Zweitsprache
Interkulturelle Pädagogik
Deutsche Grammatik
Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen
Russisch als Fremdsprache

Curriculum Vitae

since 2021

University of Oldenburg

lecturer for special tasks

Department of ‘German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language’
Institute for German Studies

2018–2020

Catholic University of Eichstätt

lecturer for special tasks

Professorship for the Didactics of German as a Second and Foreign Language, Institute for German Studies; School of Linguistics and Literary Studies

2017–2018

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

research associate

Institute for German as a Foreign and Second Language and Intercultural Studies, Department of German Studies Abroad – German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language

2016–2017

Technical University of Braunschweig

research associate

Institute for German Studies, Department of Linguistics and Medieval Studies, responsible for the DaF/DaZ certificate

2015–2017

Georg-August University of Göttingen

lecturer for special tasks

Department of German Philology
Additional qualification in Interculturality and Multilingualism in German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language (ZIMD)

2008–2014

University of Hildesheim Foundation

Research Assistant

Institute of German Language and Literature, Department of Linguistics and Language Teaching

Lecturer as part of the ‘LernKU(H)LT’ project

Institute of Educational Science/Department of Applied Educational Science

Lecturer in the ‘German-French Cultural Mediation’ degree programme

2005–2007

University of Duisburg-Essen

Obtained additional qualification in German as a Second Language / German as a Foreign Language

Lecturer in German for International Students (DaF) and in Russian

2002–2008

University of Wuppertal

PhD in the Department of German Studies: Linguistics with a particular focus on didactics. Qualification: Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.)

Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Literature (Foundation Course in Teaching)

Lecturer in the subjects ‘German as a Foreign Language’ and ‘Russian as a Foreign Language’

1997–2001

University of Wuppertal

Studied German Studies, General Linguistics (Applied Linguistics) and (Intercultural) Education

1998–2000

Scholarship holder at the University of Wuppertal (postgraduate scholarship to support early-career researchers)

1999–2008

Internationaler Bund (Wuppertal); Berlitz School (Wuppertal); ‘Russikum’ State Language Institute (Bochum)

Lecturer in the subject ‘German as a Foreign Language’ as part of vocational integration programmes for ethnic German repatriates and Jewish quota refugees; lecturer in Russian

1990–1997

Saransk Municipal Grammar School (Russian Federation)

Foreign language teacher specialising in German

1997

Saransk State Pedagogical Institute (Russian Federation)

Lecturer in the Departments of German and English Specialisation: Theoretical German grammar

1987–1992

Saransk State University (Russian Federation)

Studied Romance and Germanic Philology, specialising in German

Publications

Independent publications and (co-)editors

  • 2009: Writing in Russian and German schools. With special consideration of the text production of Russian-speaking ethnic German immigrants and ethnic German repatriates. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang. 2009. At the University of Wuppertal. Dissertation
  • 2014: Anthology "39th Annual Conference of the Association of German as a Foreign Language 2012 at the University of Hildesheim" (eds.: Bredel, U.; Schlickau, S.) Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen.

Essays and articles

  • 2011: On the training of writing skills of resettled children and young people from the former Soviet Union by promoting writing skills acquired in their country of origin. In: Rupprecht S. Baur & Britta Hufeisen (eds.) "Much is very similar." - Individual and social multilingualism as an educational policy task. Hohengehren. Schneider. 113-135
  • 2014: Language reflection and teaching grammar in Russian mother tongue lessons. In: Gornik, Hildegard (ed.) DTP (Deutschunterricht in Theorie und Praxis), Sprachreflexion und Grammatikunterricht. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider. 398-415
  • 2015: Writing tasks as the linchpin of school writing. In: Dirim, Inci / Krumm, Hans-Jürgen / Portmann-Tselikas, Paul R. / Schmölzer-Eibinger, Sabine (eds.), Theorie und Praxis. Yearbook for German as a Foreign and Second Language 3/2014, Vienna: Praesens. 117-155
  • 2015: The importance of foreign language writing in German lessons at Russian schools. In: Conference proceedings "X. International Conference Foreign Languages in school and university / Иностранные языки в школе и вузе", сборник научных трудов по материалам Международного семинара-практикума "Иностранные языки в школе и вузе" в рамках X Международной научно-практической конференции "Осовские педагогические чтения", 4 декабря 2014 г.: [материалы] [Электронный ресурс]/редкорл.: Л.. Е. Бабушкина (отв. ред.) [и др.]; Мордов. гос. пед. ин-т. -Саранск. 40-51
  • 2015: On the consideration of interfering effects of the first language on foreign language learning when analysing errors and evaluating student texts in German lessons. In: Conference proceedings "Linguistics and Didactics: Interdisciplinaryäinterdisciplinary approach/Лингвистика и методика: междисциплинарный подход", сборник научных трудов по материалам Международной научно-практической конференции с элементами научной школы для молодых ученых "51-е Евсевьевские чтения", 14-15 мая 2015 г.: [материалы][Электронный ресурс] / редкол. : Н. Н. Ганина (отв.ред.) [и др.]; Мордов. гос. пед. ин-т. - Саранск, 2015. - 1 электрон. опт. диск (CD-ROM). 71-87
  • 2016: Difficulties with the inflection of masculine nouns in German. In: Conference proceedings "XI. International Conference Foreign Languages in school and university/Иностранные языки в школе и вузе", сборник научных трудов по материалам Международного семинара-практикума "Иностранные языки в школе и вузе" в рамках XI Международной научно-практической конференции "Осовские педагогические чтения", 26 ноября 2015 г.: [материалы] [Электронный ресурс]/редкорл.: Л.. Е. Бабушкина (отв. ред.) [и др.]; Мордов. гос. пед. ин-т. -Саранск. 14-22.
  • 2016: How much grammar do DaZ (German as a second language) teachers and learners need? In: Conference proceedings "22nd Linguistics and Literature Days in Banská Bystrica/Slovakia 2014" Dr Kovač-Verlag, Hamburg. 265-274.
  • 2018: Reflections on the (non-)consideration of linguistic resources in the (language) integration of lateral entrants into the German education system. In: Dirim, Inci/Wagener, Anke: Anthology "Normative Verortungen und reflexive Grundlagen" Budrich UniPress Ltd. Leverkusen-Opladen.184-209
  • 2022: Language reflection and the teaching of grammar in the Russian mother tongue classroom. In: Gornik, Hildegard (ed.) DTP (Deutschunterricht in Theorie und Praxis) Sprachreflexion und Grammatikunterricht. 2nd edition. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
  • 2022: Значение грамматики на уроках русского языка в России и на уроках немецкого языка в системе школьного образования в Германии: Сравнительная характеристика в контексте преподавания родного языка. In: Conference Proceedings " V. International Conference at the Mordovian State Universityät Russian languageе in the context of the national culture"/V Международная научная конференция Русский язык в контексте национальной культуры, приуроченной к 90-летию Национального исследовательского Мордовского государственного университета им. Н. П. Огарёва 14-16 октября 2021 г.

Review

  • 2018: Yvonne Decker-Ernst (2017): German as a second language in preparatory classes. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider. In: Target language German. An international journal for German as a foreign language / German as a second language. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 65-71.

Lectures

Guest stays abroad

  • 20015-2016: Teacher training and participation in conferences at the State Pedagogical Institute in Saransk (Russian Federation)
  • 09/17: Visiting lecturer at the State Ilias University in Tbilisi (Georgia)
  • 03/18 Visiting lecturer at the State University in Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation)

Conferences and workshops

  • 2012: Coordination of the FaDaF annual conference in Hildesheim
  • 2013: Coordination of the workshop "Pragmatics and language teaching research", University of Hildesheim
  • 2013: Workshop "German as a second language. Grammar promotion" for students at the University of Hildesheim as part of the project "LernKU(H)LT" (children from different backgrounds learn as a team) at the Institute of Educational Science / Department of Applied Educational Science"
  • 2015: Workshops "Analysing textbooks", "Tests and diagnostic procedures" and "Language contrastive work" as part of the qualification series for teachers for teaching newly immigrated lateral entrants at the University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2016: Workshop "Theories of language acquisition, encounters with languages, bilingualism and multilingualism" as part of a training series organised by the Münster district government
  • 2016: Workshops "Grammar in GSL lessons" and "Causes, recognition and support of language learners after a diagnosis" as part of the training series for teachers "GSL for newly immigrated children and young people" in municipal integration centres in Gelsenkirchen and Essen
  • 29.03.- 04.04.16: Workshop "Theoretical foundations of learning German" at the Saransk State Institute of Educational Sciences (Russian Federation)

Projects

Winter semester 2015/16 - summer semester 2017

Project "Qualified preparation and professional supervision of student teachers for the language support of refugees" at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

09.-11.12

Participation in the WiMi project "Forschendes Lernen", funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. Head: Prof Dr Elke Montanari

Teaching

(Changed: 19 Sep 2026)  |  Kurz-URL:Shortlink: https://uol.de/p86663en
Zum Seitananfang scrollen Scroll to the top of the page

This page contains automatically translated content.