Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
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New publications
- Feldhaus, Michael/Hüllbrock, Nadine/Jahns, Esther/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Meier, Sarah (2025):Participation through digitalisation, language awareness and lifeworld orientation. Working paper on participation at the end of project participate@UOL. URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-59602
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Birkhofer, Thomas/Stawinoga, Marco (2025): Krude! On the acoustics of classroom discourse. Silence, echo and intonation. University of Cologne: Working Group on Writing. https://doi.org/10.18716/krude/2
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): The four roles of teachers in student acquisition of the language of education. In: Lin-Klitzing, Susanne/Du Fuccia, David/Gaube, Thomas/DPhV (eds.): Sprache - Denken - Bildung: The importance of German as a language of education. (Series: Gymnasium - Education - Society). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. S. 62-78.
- Goschler, Juliana/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Syntactic complexity in classroom discourse: nominal phrases in grade level comparison. In: Goschler, Juliana/Rosenberg, Peter/Woerfel, Till (eds.): Empirical approaches to educational language and educational language competences. Wiesbaden: Springer. S. 71-95.
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Perspectives on research into authentic classroom communication. Possibilities - limits - focal points. In: Announcements of the German Association of Germanists. H. 1/2024. PP. 8-28.
i.Dr./i.Vb.
- Bräuer, Christoph/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (eds.): Sprachlichkeit und Fachlichkeit in ihrem Zusammenspiel für fachliche Lernprozesse. Münster: Waxmann (Series: Fachdidaktische Forschung).
- Berg, Kristian/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin: Implicit text norms of Abitur papers. Submitted for: Führer, Caroline/Fürstenberg, Maurice (eds.): Normativity and relativity in German didactics and teaching. Language and literature didactic perspectives. SLLD-B - Linguistic-literary learning and German didactics.
- Goschler, Juliana/Gündert, Max-Simon/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Rose, Sarah (eds.): Writing in the subject. A critical review. Springer (Series: Language sensitivity in educational processes).
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin: When pupils ask. Pupils' initiation steps as exceptional events in classroom discourse. Accepted for: Behrens, Ulrike/Carl, Mark-Oliver/Kreuz, Judith/Magirius, Marco (eds.): Potentials of oral communication in German lessons - across all areas of competence. SLLD-B - Linguistic-literary learning and German didactics.
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin: ...is eaten by... more than linguistic surface? On the linguistic conceptualisation of food relationships in non-fiction and biology lessons. In: Bräuer, Christoph/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (eds.): Sprachlichkeit und Fachlichkeit in ihrem Zusammenspiel für fachliche Lernprozesse. Münster: Waxmann (Series: Fachdidaktische Forschung).
Conference report
Angela Brütsch and Tanja Steinebronn have written a conference report on the 19th annual meeting of the AG Mündlichkeit, at which Thorsten Pohl and I gave a presentation entitled Fertighäuser, Rohbauten und freier Baugrund im mündlichen Ausbau schulsprachlicher Struktur- und Ausdrucksmittel. It was published in issue 25 of the journal "Gesprächsforschung - online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion".
Colloquium "Linguistic and subject-specificity in their interplay for subject-specific learning processes"
- The colloquium "Sprachlichkeit und Fachlichkeit in ihrem Zusammenspiel für fachliche Lernprozesse", organised by Prof. Dr Christoph Bräuer (Georg-August University Göttingen), Prof. Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke (University of Oldenburg) and Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl (University of Cologne) took place from 3-5 March 2024 at Schloss Wahn in Cologne.
- In twelve presentations (which focussed on a total of eleven different disciplines, some of them comparative), two core questions were discussed:
- a) "To what extent does linguisticity (in particular subject and educational linguisticity) have an instrumental-serving function for subject learning and subject knowledge?";
- b) "To what extent is a technically elaborated linguisticity a stirrup (on the teacher's side) or an indication (on the student's side) for in-depth subject-related learning processes and insights among students?"
- A conference report has been published in Didaktik German: Hülsmann, Delia & Hesse, Florian (2024): Report on the colloquium "Sprachlichkeit und Fachlichkeit in ihrem Zusammenspiel für fachliche Lernprozesse: (04.03.-05.03.2024 at Schloss Wahn, University of Cologne). Didaktik German, (56), 87-94. doi. org/10.21248/dideu.717
Curriculum Vitae
Academic appointment
| since 04.2025 | Dean of Studies at School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies (University of Oldenburg) |
| since 05.2024 | Co-editor of the series SLLD-B: Linguistic-Literary Learning and German Didactics (volumes) (open access, peer-review) |
| since 08.2022 | Member of the interdisciplinary dieS research network (didactic-empirical writing research) |
| since 09.2020 | University Professor for Didactics of the German Language (Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| 04.2020-08.2020 | Junior Professor for Didactics of the German Language (Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| 04.2019-03.2020 | Substitute professorship for Applied Linguistics (Institute for German Language and Literature and its Didactics, Leuphana University of Lüneburg) |
| 05.2018-03.2020 | Academic Counsellor (a. Z.) (AG WritingInstitute for German Language and Literature II, IDSL II, University of Cologne) |
| 09.2018 | Winner of the German Didactics Award of the symposium on German didactics |
| 04.2015-04.2018 | Research assistant ( Writing Research Group, IDSL II, University of Cologne) |
| 04.2013-03.2015 | Research assistant and Teaching staff for special tasks (AG WritingIDSL II, University of Cologne) |
| 04.2011-09.2011 | Work contract at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (with Prof. Dr Helmuth Feilke: German Linguistics and Language Didactics) for the final editing of the DTP manual Written language use/writing textsedited by Helmuth Feilke and Thorsten Pohl |
| 02.2010-03.2013 | Research assistant (Didactics of the German Language, Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| 04.2007-01.2010 | Student assistant (with Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl: Didactics of the German Language, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| 09.2007-11.2007 | Student assistant (with Prof. Dr Corinna Hößle: Didactics of Biology, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg), collaboration on the Play and activity book for young naturalists: Fascination of Nature (Schneider 2010) |
| 10.2006-02.2007 | Tutor in the basic module Media and mediation (with Prof. Dr Thomas Zabka: Literature Didactics including Media Didactics, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
Training and academic qualification
| 08.2017 | Doctorate as Dr phil. in the subject German Philology with a thesis on the topic The language directed at pupils (SgS) - studies on the change in teachers' language from primary school to upper secondary school (School of Philosophy, University of Cologne) |
| 02.2017 | Disputatio in the subject German Philology (School of Philosophy, University of Cologne) |
| 2007-2010 | Degree programme Master of Education (Gymnasium) German and Biology (University of Oldenburg) |
| 2004-2007 | 2-subject Bachelor's programme German Studies and Biology (University of Oldenburg) |
| 06/2004 | A-levels (Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium Uelzen) |
Research
Research focus
- Adaptive language behaviour
- Teacher language, language of instruction and classroom communication
- Development-sensitive writing didactics
- Language in the subject
- Area of tension Oral/written languageOperationalisation conceptualised writing
- Easy language
- German didactic teacher research
- Linguistic participation/participation in (digital) university teaching
Member of the interdisciplinary dieS research network (didactic-empirical writing research); member of the research cluster"Advanced language acquisition" and the research cluster "Language-aware subject teaching/language-sensitive teaching and learning" of the Research Academy of the Didactic Centre of the UOL
Part of the editorial team of the German didactic peer-reviewed open-access publication series SLLD-B (Sprachlich-literarisches Lernen und Deutschdidaktik - Bände) (since May 2024)
End of projects
- The language addressed to the pupils (SgS). On the adaptivity of linguistic teacher behaviour in the classroom (project leader together with Prof Dr Thorsten Pohl, University of Cologne) (funded by the German Research Foundationt, DFG, project number 426182600).
- Scientific supervision of the innovation idea (Linguistic) participation in the project participate@UOL (together with Prof. Dr Michael Feldhaus), funded by the Foundation Innovation in Higher Education Teaching
- Input analyses in biology lessons: Complex nominal phrases in a comparison of year groups - oral and written media (together with Prof Dr Juliana Goschler, in the DiZ research cluster Advanced language acquisition)
- Comparison of prospective teachers' language behaviour when lecturing and speaking freely (together with Prof. Dr Ulla Licandro and Prof. Dr Jörg Peters, in the DiZ research cluster Advanced language acquisition)
- Development-sensitive writing didactics (esSD) - conceptualisation and research into its effectiveness
Dissertations
- Thomas Birkhofer: The initiation step in classroom discourse and its significance for language learning and language acquisition processes. Acquisition-related analyses of spoken language data from the subjects German and biology (working title, second supervision; first supervision: Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl, Cologne)
- Mareike Fuhlrott: Language-forming textbook tasks in subject lessons - Qualitative content analysis and intervention (completed, second supervision; first supervision: Prof. Dr Torsten Steinhoff, Siegen).
- Gerrit Alexander Helm: On the development of a (digital) reading diagnosis procedure to visualise differences in the lowest hierarchical reading skills (completed, co-supervisor; initial supervision: Prof. Dr. Nanna Fuhrhop)
- Sarah Meier: Students assess the quality of scientific texts - an intervention study to promote meta-textual judgement skills in scientific writing (working title, initial supervision)
- Nadine Dji-Yung Pirsch: The interpretive essay from a didactic writing perspective: A design-research study on interpretive writing using text procedures in secondary school (working title, initial supervision)
- Alexandra Lena Schmidt: Utilisation of teaching-learning materials in German lessons at primary level - an explorative-qualitative field study using the example of written narration (working title, initial supervision)
- Barbara Streubel: A graphematic and writing culture concept for the written language acquisition of educationally disadvantaged children - case-control study in grades 1 and 2 (completed, co-supervisor; initial supervision: Prof. Dr Nanna Fuhrhop)
Workshops, colloquia, series of lectures, sections
- theS-Winter Meeting 2025 (didactic-empirical writing research) (21 and 22 November 2025, University of Oldenburg)
- Workshop of the DFG project Die an die Schüler und Schülerinnen gerichtete Sprache (SgS). On the adaptivity of linguistic teacher action in the classroom (together with Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl and the project team; 19 April 2024, The Smart House Oldenburg)
- Colloquium on the interplay of linguistic and subject-specific aspects for subject-related learning processes (together with Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl and Prof. Dr Christoph Bräuer) (3-5 March 2024, Schloss Wahn, Cologne)
- Workshop Interdisciplinary research into language-aware subject teaching of the research cluster "Language-aware subject teaching/language-sensitive teaching and learning", organisation: Nadine Dji-Yung Pirsch
- Series of lectures on language-sensitive teaching and learning in the (subject) classroom of the research cluster "Language-aware subject teaching/language-sensitive teaching and learning", together with Prof. Dr Juliana Goschler and Dr Zuzana Münch-Manková in summer semester 2023, together with Prof. Dr Juliana Goschler in winter semester 23/24
- Series of lectures Computer - Human - Language: Interdisciplinary perspectives at the interface between linguistic research and Computing Science in winter semester 2022/23 and winter semester 2023/24, together with Prof Dr Susanne Boll, Hannes Kath, Dr Kyoko Sugisaki, Prof Dr Esther Ruigendijk, Prof Dr Wolfram Wingerath.
- Workshop Advanced language acquisition together with Prof. Dr Tanja Jungmann (language and communication and their special educational support with special consideration of inclusive educational processes) and Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk (Dutch Linguistics) (10 and 11 October 2022, Oldenburg, postponed), in the context of the DiZ research cluster Advanced language acquisition
- Interdisciplinary conference of the subjects Philosophy and German: The power of language? Identity, narration and judgement formation; together with the AG teacher training programme of the University of Oldenburg (postponed)
- Conceptual and organisational planning of the interdisciplinary section Practise?! - Perspectives of professionalisation research at the cancelled Symposium on German Didactics 2020 in Hildesheim Practising. Practices in the acquisition of linguistic and literary skills, together with Prof. Dr Dorothee Wieser (Modern German Literature and Didactics of German Language and Literature, Dresden); transfer to writing conferences in preparation for an anthology
- EXMARaLDA workshop for young academics at the German Didactics Symposium, 17 February 2014 in Cologne, together with Diana Maak (Flensburg)
- Intensive workshop Empirical work in German didactics of the Junior Research Network German Didactics in the SDD, 12-15 September 2013, in Rastede near Oldenburg, together with Katrin Hee (Cologne) and Frederike Schmidt (Jena)
- theS-summer school Writing - Writing - Learning at school07 - 09 July 2011 in Oldenburg (www.dies.uni-oldenburg.de/) (as research assistant)
- theS-Winter Meeting 18-19 December 2009 in Delmenhorst (as student assistant)
Publications
- Feldhaus, Michael/Hüllbrock, Nadine/Jahns, Esther/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Meier, Sarah (2025):Participation through digitalisation, language awareness and lifeworld orientation. Working paper on participation at the end of project participate@UOL. URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-59602
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Birkhofer, Thomas/Stawinoga, Marco (2025): Krude! On the acoustics of classroom discourse. Silence, echo and intonation. University of Cologne: Working Group on Writing. https://doi.org/10.18716/krude/2
- Goschler, Juliana/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Syntactic complexity in classroom discourse: nominal phrases in grade level comparison. In: Goschler, Juliana/Rosenberg, Peter/Woerfel, Till (eds.): Empirical approaches to educational language and educational language competences. Wiesbaden: Springer. S. 71-95.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): The four roles of teachers in pupil acquisition of the language of education. In: Lin-Klitzing, Susanne/Du Fuccia, David/Gaube, Thomas/DPhV (eds.): Sprache - Denken - Bildung: The importance of German as a language of education. (Series: Gymnasium - Education - Society). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. S. 62-78.
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Perspectives on research into authentic classroom communication. Possibilities - limits - focal points. In: Announcements of the German Association of Germanists. H. 1/2024. PP. 8-28.
- Heins, Jochen/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Wieser, Dorothee/Wiesner, Esther (2022) (eds.): Practising. Theoretical and empirical perspectives in German didactics. SLLD(B) - Linguistic-Literary Learning and German Didactics (Volumes). Vol. 5. URL: https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/SLLD/catalog/view/248/225/1277
- Heins, Jochen/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Wieser, Dorothee/Wiesner, Esther (2022): Practising - perspectives on German didactics. In: ibid. (ed.): Practising. Theoretical and empirical perspectives in German didactics. SLLD(B) - Sprachlich-Literarisches Lernen und Deutschdidaktik (Volumes). Vol. 5. pp. 1-18. URL: https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/SLLD/catalog/view/248/225/1277
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2021): The role of linguistic input in language acquisition at school. In: The German classroom. H. 5. PP. 58-68.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2021): Language of the teachers - language of the pupils. In: German Academy for Language and Poetry/Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ed.): The language in schools - A language in the making. Third report on the state of the German language. Edited by Ursula Bredel and Helmuth Feilke. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. S. 63-90.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2021): Linguistic complexity in medially oral classroom discourse. In: The German classroom. H. 1/2021. PP. 44-53.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2020): Teacher-side adaptive language action through micro- and macrointeractional support mechanisms as an aspect of pedagogical language knowledge? In: Schindler, Kirsten/Schmidt, Frederike (eds.): Knowledge and beliefs of German teachers. Current findings in German didactic professional research. Berlin et al: Peter Lang. S. 205-228.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2019): Transitory norms in a development-sensitive didactics of writing. In: Lehnen, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten/Rezat, Sara/Steinhoff, Torsten/Steinseifer, Martin (eds.): Feilke revisited. 60 site visits. Siegen: universi. S. 117-120.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2018): Die an die Schüler/-innen gerichtete Sprache (SgS) - Studien zur Veränderung der Lehrer/-innensprache von der Grundschule bis zur Oberstufe. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter [= German Linguistics Series, ed. by Mechthild Habermann and Heiko Hausendorf, vol. 310].
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2017): Language addressed to pupils as a mirror of transitory school language norms. In: Ahrenholz, Bernt/Hövelbrinks, Britta/Schmellentin, Claudia (eds.): Subject teaching and language in school teaching/learning processes. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. S. 117-137.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2017): In the zone of next development. Teachers adapt their language to the developmental needs of their pupils. In: Pedagogy. Vol. 69. No. 6. pp. 22-24.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (2017): Easy language vs. adaptive language behaviour. In: Fix, Ulla/Bock, Bettina M./Lange, Daisy (eds.): "Leichte Sprache" im Spiegel theoretischer und angewandter Forschung. Berlin: Frank & Timme. S. 87-110.
- Hee, Katrin/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2017): Educational language microscopically. Discovering condensed nominal groups. In: German 5-10. p. 53. pp. 24-28.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2016): Linguistic teacher behaviour as a component of teachers' professional competence - contours of a little-noticed field of research. In: Reading Rooms - Journal for Literacy in Schools and Research. Edited by Iris Kruse, Hans Lösener, Karin Vach, Steffen Volz and Maja Wiprächtiger-Geppert. Vol. 3. issue 3. p. 98-114. URL: http://xn--leserume-4za.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lr-2016-1-kleinschmidt_98-114.pdf.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2015): The language addressed to pupils. Initial results of a study on the adaptivity of teachers' linguistic behaviour. In: Bräuer, Christoph/Wieser, Dorothee (eds.): Lehrende im Blick - Empirische Lehrerforschung in der Deutschdidaktik. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 199-226.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (2010): Two anthologies on the competence area 'speaking and listening'. In: Didactics of German. H. 29. PP. 101-113.
Conference report
- Hee, Katrin/Kleinschmidt, Katrin/Schmidt, Frederike (2014): Short report on the intensive workshop of the Nachwuchsnetzwerk Deutschdidaktik im SDD e. V. from 12-15 September 2013 in Rastede. In: Symposion Deutschdidaktik e.V. Members' Newsletter. No. 39. p. 6-7.
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Functions
- Dean of Studies of School III (since April 2025)
- Member of the Inter-Faculty Study Commission of the University of Oldenburg and the Study Quality Commission (since April 2025)
- Deputy member of the School Development Group of Faculty III (since April 2025)
- Member of the expert panel Shaping the future of teaching together as part of the project "Digital Teaching Hub Lower Saxony (DLHN)" (since August 2025)
- Chair of the M.Ed. Gymnasium examining board at the University of Oldenburg (since May 2024)
- Deputy member of the doctorate committee of the philological subjects of School III (since May 2023)
- Member of the participate@UOL management team(since December 2022)
- Member of the School and University Discussion Group (GSU) (since September 2022)
- Member of the School III Digitalisation Working Group (since April 2022)
- Member of the Council for Research and the Commission for Teacher Training of the Didactic Centre of the UOL (since April 2021)
- Programme Director for the Master of Education Grundschule German (since April 2021), Programme Director for the Master of Education Hauptschule/Realschule German (since October 2022)
- Representative of the Institute for German Studies for the adaptation programme (since April 2021)
- Module coordinator for the modules ger033, ger242, ger246, ger771, ger800, ger901 and ema910 (the latter together with Prof Dr Ralph Schwarzkopf, Didactics of Mathematics)
Former functions
- Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies (April 2024 - March 2025)
- Member of the Institute Council of the Institute for German Studies (April 2023 - March 2025)
- Spokesperson of the School Development Group of Faculty III (April 2021 - March 2025)
- Representative of the Institute for German Studies for credit transfer issues for all degree programmes (April 2021 - March 2025)
- Member of the scientific management team of OLE+ (biography-oriented and cross-phase teacher training in Oldenburg) (April 2021 - December 2023), moderation of the OLE management team (February 2023 - December 2023)
- Member of the DaF/DaZ admissions committee (May 2021 - March 2023)
- Member of the Study Commission of School III (April 2021 - March 2023)
- Member of the Teacher Training Working Group of the University of Oldenburg (2020-2023)
- Elected member of the preparatory committee of the German Didactics Symposium 2020 in Hildesheim
- Subject coordinator for the subject German at the Institute for German Language and Literature and its Didactics at Leuphana University Lüneburg (October 2019 to March 2020)
- Elected member (deputy member) of the Board of the Institute for German Language and Literature lI (IDSL II) at the University of Cologne (December 2018 to March 2019); previously: deputy elected member (deputy member) of the Board of the IDSL lI (October 2014 to November 2018)
- Subject study advisor (Bachelor's and Master's: Teaching degree for primary school, secondary/secondary and comprehensive school and special educational needs) at the IDSL II of the University of Cologne (August 2017 to March 2019)
- Member of the organisational group of the German didactics junior research network in the SDD (since September 2014), elected contact person there for the allocation of funding (since February 2015)
- Examining board for the Master of Education (Gymnasium) at the University of Oldenburg (2009) as a student member
Memberships
- Member of the interdisciplinary dieS research network (didactic-empirical writing research)
- Symposium on German Didactics (SDD)
- WORKING GROUP orality in the Symposium on German Didactics
- German Teachers' Association & German Specialist Association
- Centre for Teacher Training - Didactic Centre of the University of Oldenburg
- Oldenburg Research Centre for Children's and Youth Literature (OlFoKi), member of the board there (since June 2022)
- Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL)
- Oldenburg University Society e.V.
- Oldenburg Library Society
