Inez De Florio-Hansen

Inez De Florio-Hansen (born 1943) is a German applied linguist whose work focuses on foreign language learning and teaching of (French, Italian and more recently English) as well as on inter and transcultural competence and multilingualism. Her research interests include curriculum design and methodology, especially ICT and multiliteracies. A further focus is on linguistic minorities, particularly migrant students of Turkish origin.

Career

After graduating from university, Florio-Hansen taught French, Italian and Latin at the secondary school level as well as in adult education. She then worked at the education ministry in the German state of Hesse as adviser and teacher trainer for teachers of migrant students.

She received her Ph.D in French Literature from the University of Aachen in Germany in 1971.[1] Her post-doctoral thesis at Goethe University in Frankfurt was a study of vocabulary acquisition of adult learners.[2]

After teaching at various German universities, she held a chair as Professor of Applied Linguistics (Romance Languages) at the University of Erfurt, Germany, between 1994 and 1996.

In 1996, she became a Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication at the University of Kassel, Germany, retiring in 2008.[3]

Publications

Florio-Hansen has published several books, more than a hundred featured articles in journals, a series of textbooks on French and Italian and other teaching material.

In 2011, she was honored with a Festschrift covering many fields of her research.[4][5][6]

Select publications (in English)

References

  1. I. Hansen: Zwischen Epos und höfischem Roman. Die Frauengestalten im Trojaroman des Benoit de Sainte-Maure. Fink, München 1971. (Diss. Aachen 1970)
  2. I. De Florio-Hansen: Vom Reden über Wörter. Vokabelerklärungen im Italienischunterricht mit Erwachsenen. Narr, Tübingen 1994. (Habilitationsschrift)
  3. Reinfried, M./Rück, N. (Hrsg.) (2011): Innovative Entwicklungen beim Lehren und Lernen von Fremdsprachen. Festschrift für Inez De Florio-Hansen. Tübingen: Narr (Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik)
  4. For publications by and about Inez De Florio-Hansen see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek www.dnb.de
  5. dipf. "Fachportal Pädagogik - Ergebnis der Suche in der FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank". Fachportal-paedagogik.de. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  6. Prof. Dr. Inez De Florio-Hansen28.11.2011 (2011-11-28). "Lehrer-Online - Faces of Facebook - Faces de Facebook". Lehrer-online.de. Retrieved 2012-08-14.

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