Una Dirks

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Una Dirks (* 1961 in Eckernförde , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German linguist and educationalist and was a university teacher .

Life

After graduating from high school in Lake Geneva , Wisconsin (USA, 1978) and graduating from the Jungmannschule Eckernförde (1981), Una Dirks studied at the Universities of Kiel, Heidelberg, Montpellier and Marburg from 1981 to 1987. From 1988 to 1990 she received a doctoral scholarship from the State of Hesse . In 1991 she did her doctorate in linguistics ( Dr. phil. ) And by 1993 Dirks completed a traineeship at the Elisabeth School in Marburg . At the same time she was a lecturer at the English Department of the University of Marburg in the areas of applied linguistics and English didactics .

After the second state examination (1993), she was appointed university assistant (C1) in the educational sciences department of the Martin Luther University Halle , where Dirks qualified as a professor in 1998 with the participation of the University of Magdeburg with a study on the professionalization of English teachers in the new federal states has been.

From 1999 to 2011 she was professor for applied linguistics and English didactics at the University of Hildesheim .

In 2012 and 2013 she was visiting professor at Colorado State University , Fort Collins , Colorado (USA) for L 2, n Reading Literacy in Higher Education . Further teaching assignments followed, including at the European University of Flensburg , the Philipps University of Marburg and the Universities of Montpellier III and Paris-Est Crétail (UPEC). In addition, she then worked as a research assistant at the University of Kassel and the Philipps University of Marburg.

research

Una Dirks' work and research focus is on research-based learning, reflective teacher training and the acquisition of skills in the course of education (diagnostic, reading and writing skills) under the conditions of multilingualism. In the context of intervention and evaluation projects, she examined the opportunities and obstacles to the professionalization of (future) teachers and structured learning for pupils (cf. scaffolding ) who use German as their mother, foreign and second language. Dirks u. a. with individual text types and forms that play a decisive role in school and educational success.

Another focus of work and research is on Dirk's transcultural media linguistic analyzes, beginning with her dissertation on persuasive concept metaphors and modes of argumentation in political linguistic usage (1991), to which she is working on a project funded by the German Peace Research Foundation on the media construction of reasons for war in Third Iraq war follows (inter alia Dirks 2005a, b, 2008, 2010).

Fonts (selection)

  • “We learned so much from them!” Scaffolding-based DaZ lessons put to the test. In: Una Dirks & Kathrin Siebold (eds.): DaF-, DaZ-, DaM educational rooms. Speech and text forms in focus. Philipps University of Marburg, 2018, pp. 1–23. ( online , accessed January 20, 2019).
  • Grounded Theory. In: Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.): Handbook of Pragmatics. Benjamin, Amsterdam, 2014, pp. 1-42.
  • Model and analyze pedagogical-sociological diagnostic competence. A formative evaluation at the intersection of educational and professional research, (with Wilfried Hansmann & Hendrik Baumbach), Tectum, Marburg, 2013.
  • Text comprehension. In: Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.): Handbook of Pragmatics. Benjamin, Amsterdam, p. 2013, pp. 1–36.
  • The Iraq conflict in the media. A linguistic, political and communication science analysis . Uvk, Konstanz, 2010.
  • Story telling and evidence-based discourse fragments in conflict: The mediatization of the reasons for war in the Iraq conflict. In: Heinz Bonfadelli, Kurt Imhof, Roger Blum & Otfried Jarren (eds.): Seismographic function of public communication in transition . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2008, pp. 247-278.
  • Foreign language research as a 'journey of discovery' - in the field of tension between abduction, deduction and induction. In: Johannes Vollmer (ed.): Synergy effects in foreign language research . Lang, Frankfurt / M., 2006, pp. 43-58.
  • Decampling and adapting political spin . A press release comparison of German and US lead stories on the Iraq conflict. In: Hartmut Lenk & Andrew Chesterman (ed.): Press text types in comparison . Olms, Hildesheim, 2005a, pp. 35-58.
  • Press comments on the largest peace demonstration before the Iraq war (2003) from a transcultural perspective - a documentary genre analysis. In: Claudia Fraas & Michael Klemm (eds.): Mediendiskurse. Inventory and perspectives, (with Gabriele Kohlmeyer). Lang, Frankfurt / M., 2005b, pp. 286-308.
  • 'Cultural Guardian' or 'World Wanderer'? Two 'ideal' real types of bilingual subject teaching. In: Andreas Bonnet & Stephan Breidbach (eds.): Didactics in dialogue . Concepts of teaching and ways of learning in bilingual subject teaching. Lang, Frankfurt / M., 2004, pp. 129-140.
  • Understanding possibilities and limits using the example of linguistic and cultural studies approaches to autographs / biographies.
  • Review essay on: Rita Franceschini (ed.), Biography and interculturality. Discourse and life practice. Tübingen: Stauffenburg [23 paragraphs]. Forum: Qualitative Social Research . On-line Journal, Vol. 5 (1), 2004 ( online , accessed January 20, 2019); also in the print edition of: Historical Social Research , Vol. 29 (4), 2004, pp. 154–170.
  • The professional culture of English teachers. A career-biographically oriented, structural and action-theoretical investigation. Journal for Foreign Language Research (ZFF) , 14 (2), 2003, pp. 301–312.
  • Inquiry-based learning in teacher training. On the way to a professional teaching and school development, (with Wilfried Hansmann). Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn, 2002.
  • How do English teachers become professional? A professional biography study in the new federal states. Waxmann, Münster, 2000. [Habilitation thesis]
  • Reflexive teacher training. Case studies and concepts in the context of job-specific core problems. (Studies on school and educational research), (with Wilfried Hansmann), Beltz - Deutscher StudienVerlag, Weinheim, 1999.
  • Learn to interpret with metaphors. A series of lessons using the example of the film 'Dead Poets Society'. Practice of modern language teaching 2, 1993, pp. 138–151.
  • A grammatical balancing exercise. Action orientation in English lessons. Practice of modern language teaching 4, 1993, pp. 363-375.
  • Persuasive means of representation in the Star Wars discourse. A linguistic investigation using the example of Western press organs . IAFA, Philipps University Marburg, 1991. [Dissertation]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Una Dirks. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Feindt, Andreas Broszio: Research-based learning in teacher training - Exemplary reconstruction of a work sheet for student research . In: Forum Qualitative Social Research / Forum: Qualitative Social Research . tape 9 , no. 1 , 2008, ISSN  1438-5627 ( ssoar.info [accessed February 16, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Wilfried Hansmann, Una Dirks & Hendrik Baumbach (eds.) - PDF. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ s. on this the habilitation thesis by Dirks (2000) and subsequent research projects, funded by the DFG (cf. Dirks 2003), the VW Foundation and the Hessian Ministry of Education (cf. Hansmann, Dirks & Baumbach 2013); Evidence under the URL: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb09/igs/arbeitsgruppen/ag-daf/mitarbeiter-innen/dirks.
  5. ↑ Learn German without displacing your mother tongue - DIV working group Internationality met in the boarding school - Steinmühle - Schule & Internat. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Language-sensitive DaF / DaZ / DaM training rooms: Teaching and learning speech and text forms. In: Event catalog. Hessian Teaching Academy, June 23, 2017, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ cf. URL: https://bundesstiftung-friedensforschung.de/blog/die-de-aufbau-von-krieg-in-der-internationalen-meinungsfuehrenden-presse-der-fall-irak-2003/ , accessed on January 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dirks, Una
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde , Schleswig-Holstein