Seminar für Englische Philologie

Dr. Tanyasha Yearwood

Research Assistant


Research interests

  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

  • Blended Learning

  • Hands-on and Production Oriented Learning and Teaching



    • List of publications

  • Scientific monograph:

    • Perceptions of interaction in an integrated CALL context: Analysing the learning experience from an Activity Theory perspective. Diss. Duisburg-Essen, 2014
    http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-40847/DissYearwood.pdf

  • Chapters in books:

    • Mayer, N. & Yearwood, T. (2012) Guidance and learner autonomy in higher education: supporting students in reflective practice. In K. Heim und B. Rüschoff (Hrsg.) Involving Language Learners. Duisburg: Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr.

    Yearwood, T. (2004) Task-based presentation software in the one-computer foreign language classroom. In Y. Saito-Abbott et al. (Hrsg.) Digital Stream: Emerging Technologies in teaching languages and Cultures: Volume 4. San Diego: Larc press.



    Conference presentations and workshops

    „Learning and Teaching Conference 2013“ - „Inspiring Teaching“:
    Presentation 1: „Adopting a student-centered approach to Interactive Whiteboard-based material development“ (with Jessica Lutz – student at the Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg)
    Presentation 2: „Authenticating the experience of student teachers through the establishment of nurturing partnerships“ (with Desrian Wilson Paul – Lecturer at the University of Trinidad and Tobago)
    University of Liverpool (John Moores), GB

    The Seventh International Blended Learning Conference „Reflecting on achievements – What’s next for technology Enhanced
    learning and teaching?" (2012)
    Presentation: „Promoting participation via a multiple-discussion online forum: Student perspectives on the experience“ University of Hertfordshire, GB
    You can find a video recording of this talk here.

    „EUROCALL“ (The European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning) Conference 2010
    Presentation: „Conscious reflection in an online discussion: Reading between the lines“
    Université de Bordeaux, France

    „Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference“ (2009)
    „Underpinning Academic Practice with Research and Scholarship“
    Staff and Educational Development Association.
    Presentation: „Establishing and supporting membership in new pedagogic research communities“
    Bristol, GB

    „43rd IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Annual Conference“ (2009)
    Presentation: „Research and Scholarship in teaching: an embedded approach“
    Cardiff, GB

    „Trends and developments in Management and Management Education“ Conference (2009)
    Coordinator – Teaching and Learning at Universities
    Heidelberg International Business Academy

    „First and Second Languages: Exploring the relationship in pedagogy-related contexts“ Conference (2009)
    Poster: „L1 as cognitive discourse in an L2 CALL task“
    University of Oxford, GB

    „AILA“ (International Association of Applied Linguistics) Conference
    Coordinator - Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages (2008)
    University of Duisburg-Essen

    MOODLEMOOT-Conference 2008
    Presentation: „Foreign language students’ engagement in virtual online interaction: a blended-learning project in a local classroom“
    Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg

    „5th UNTELE (Use of new technologies in foreign language Teaching)“ Konferenz (2004)
    Presentation: „Using text-editing and presentation software to facilitate collaborative learning“
    Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

    „SEED“ (Seeding cultural change in the school system through the generation of communities engaged in integrated educational and technological innovation) EU-Projekt Workshop (2003)
    Presentation „FreeStyler as a tool in the language classroom: a Workshop: process- writing project“
    Athen, Griechenland

    „EUROCALL“ (The European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning) Conference 2003
    Poster: „Process writing in the one-computer classroom – New literacies! New scenarios?“
    University of Limerick, GB

    „5th Annual Digital Stream – Emerging technologies in teaching languages and cultures“ (2003)
    Presentation: „Task-based presentation software in the one-computer foreign language classroom“
    California State University, Monterey Bay, USA




    Teaching


      SoSe 2015:

    • Reading Beyond Comprehension

    • Reading Beyond Comprehension

    • Teaching Critical Cultural Awareness (hands-on) in the Classroom

    • The Interactive Whiteboard in FLT

    • Einsatz neuer Medien im Fremdsprachenunterricht

    • Produktives Lesen im Fremdsprachenunterricht

      • Lehrtätigkeiten im Seminar für Romanische Philologie:

    • Einführung in die Fachdidaktik Französisch und Spanisch in nicht-schulbezogenen Vermittlungszusammenhängen B: Methoden handlungs- und produktionsorientierten Fremdsprachenunterrichts



        • WiSe 2014/15:

      • Reading Beyond Comprehension

      • Teaching Critical Cultural Awareness (hands-on) in the Classroom

        • Lehrtätigkeiten im Seminar für Romanische Philologie:

      • Einführung in die Fachdidaktik Französisch und Spanisch in nicht-schulbezogenen Vermittlungszusammenhängen B: Methoden handlungs- und produktionsorientierten Fremdsprachenunterrichts

      • El desarrollo de la interacción socio-cultural diaria - un proyecto



          • SoSe 2014:

        • Reading Beyond Comprehension

        • Teaching Critical Cultural Awareness (hands-on) in the Classroom

          • Lehrtätigkeiten im Seminar für Romanische Philologie:

        • Einführung in die Fachdidaktik Französisch und Spanisch in nicht-schulbezogenen Vermittlungszusammenhängen B: Methoden handlungs- und produktionsorientierten Fremdsprachenunterrichts

        • El desarrollo de la interacción socio-cultural diaria - un proyecto

        • Grundlagen der Unterrichtsplanung


            • WiSe 2013/14:

          • Reading Beyond Comprehension

          • Teaching Critical Cultural Awareness (hands-on) in the Classroom

            • Teaching activities in the Department of Romance Philology:

          • Einführung in die Fachdidaktik Französisch und Spanisch in nicht-schulbezogenen Vermittlungszusammenhängen B: Methoden handlungs- und produktionsorientierten Fremdsprachenunterrichts

          • El desarrollo de la interacción socio-cultural diaria - un proyecto




              • Teaching activities outside of the University of Göttingen

            • Since April 2009 Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg (Lecturer for English and Spanish)

            • Nov. 2012 – June 2013 Hochschule für Internationales Management Heidelberg (Lecturer for Business English and Business Spanish)

            • Sept. 2005 – Oct. 2012 Heidelberg International Business Academy – now: Hochschule für Internationales Management Heidelberg (Lecturer for Business English and Business Spanish)

            • April 2001 – July 2005 Universität Duisburg-Essen (Lecturer for Language Practice and 'Landeskunde' - Life and Institutions)

            • Sept. 1993 – March 1999, Dec. 2001 - April 2001 Barataria Secondary Comprehensive School, Trinidad (Teacher of English and Spanish)

            • Sept. 1989 - Aug. 1993 Andrews High School of S.D.A., Trinidad (Teacher of English, Spanish and French)