Dr. Maria Hummel

Oral GFL skills at primary school age

Language education outside the classroom

Interaction in German as a second language

Ongoing

[in collaboration with Karin Aguado, Kathrin Siebold, Florian Thaller, and Olga Czyzak] Founding, publication, and editing of the digital open-access journal for interaction research in German as a foreign language (ZIAF): www.ziaf.org.

2026

Review: Maiberger , Eva-Larissa (2025): Designing Language-Promoting Classroom Interactions. Corrective Feedback in Subject-Specific Instruction at the Secondary Level. [Didactics of German Language and Literature, Vol. 9]. Münster & New York: Waxmann. Journal of Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching 31/2, 329–333. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48694/zif.6123

Review: Grub, Frank Thomas (ed.): Culturally Sensitive Teaching. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2024 (German as a Foreign Language 71). Info DaF 53/2-3 , 262–265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2026-0045

2025

[with Olga Czyzak]: Cooperation and Interaction. Introduction to the Fifth Issue of ZIAF. Journal of Interaction Research in German as a Foreign and Second Language, 5, 5–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/ziaf.2025.5.1.8957.

The extracurricular learning program “Children’s University” as a resource for developing children’s discourse competence. Reconstruction of explanatory discursive practices in a selected teaching-learning arrangement for elementary school students. Heidelberg: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. http://verlag-gespraechsforschung.de/2025/hummel.html

Virtual Exchange as a Platform for Building a Professional Learning Community in University-Level German as a Foreign Language (DaF) Pedagogy. Info DaF 52/5 , 575–588. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2025-0086.

[in collaboration with Kathrin Siebold, Jennifer Müller, Neo Lautenschläger, Sabine Jentges, Martina Franz dos Santos, Sylwia Adamczak-Krysztofowicz]: Learning with and from one another: Professional learning communities as a field of research in German as a Foreign and Second Language. Introduction to the special issue. Info DaF 52/5 , 523–538. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2025-0083.

[in collaboration with Dagmara Meyer-Warneke and Irina Völz]: Reflective and Experience-Based Learning in the DaFZ Master’s Program at the University of Kassel. KONTEXTE: International Journal on Professional Development in German as a Foreign Language, 3/1, 113–127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24403/jp.1438011.

2024

[with Karin Aguado]: Interactions between Instruction and the Real World. Introduction to the Fourth Issue of ZIAF. Journal for Interaction Research in German as a Foreign and Second Language, 4, 1–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/ziaf.2024.4.1.8704.

2018

[with Ralf Schneider; Mark Weißhaupt, Elke Hildebrandt; Barbara Müller-Naendrup, Kathleen Panitz]: Perspectives on Research in Learning Workshops. In: Peschel, Markus; Kelkel, Mareike (eds.): Subject-Specific Content in Learning Workshops. Children and Subjects in Learning Workshops. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 187–212.

2017

[with Ralf Schneider] Open-ended project work in the learning workshop as a form and setting for language education and educational language. In: Kekeritz, Mirja; Graf, Ulrike; Brenne, Andreas; Fiegert, Monika, Gläser, Eva, Kunze, Ingrid (eds.): Learning Workshop Work as a Principle. Opportunities for Teaching and Research. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 133–146.

2015

Extracurricular Learning Opportunities in All-Day Elementary School Programs as Settings for Inclusive Language Education. In: Dittmann, Alina; Giblak, Beata & Witt, Monika (Eds.): Educational Goal: Multilingualism. Towards the Aim of Education: Multilingualism. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 285–296.