Program
Last updated on
Friday 07 November 2025
Schedule and preliminary program
Location: University of Osnabrück, Room 11/E07 (University Palace)
Thursday 6 November – Day of arrival
| 7:00 pm | Pre-symposium dinner | Il Capriccio (Bierstraße 2, 49074 Osnabrück) |
Friday 7 November – Symposium
| 9:00 am | Registration | Foyer (University Palace) |
| 9:20 am | Welcome | Room 214 (second floor) |
| 9:30 am | Multilingual Corpus-Based Analysis of Literary Texts Adapted for Foreign Language Learners | Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix, Gaël Lejeune (STIH Laboratory, Sorbonne University) |
| 10:00 am | The representation of Global Englishes in textbooks in Germany: Focus on accents and pronunciation | Philipp Meer, Robert Fuchs, Karoline Wirbatz, Lena Hertze (Universität Münster) |
| 10:30 am | Coffee break and poster session | |
| Rethinking the EFL School Textbook: A Critical Evaluation of Authentic Language Exposure in Romanian Teaching Materials | Adela Chindris & Madalina Chitez (West University of Timisoara, Romania) | |
| Do English Textbooks in Norwegian Upper-Secondary School Contain Appropriate Input to Prepare Pupils for Academic Writing? | Petter Hagen Karlsen & Sylvi Rørvik (University of Inland Norway) | |
| Linguistic Landscapes in the English-Language Classroom: A Project Sketch | Sven Leuckert & Jacqueline Steven (TU Dresden) | |
| The Dative of Possession in Croatian: No Place in Foreign Language Textbooks for Beginners? | Costanza Marini (Università di Pavia) | |
| Forma una frase completa, por favor. – Die spanische Wortstellung im Fokus. | Mirko Ruf (Universität zu Köln) | |
| The Treatment of Modal and Evaluative Adverbs in English Textbooks Used in Primary and Secondary Education in Japan | Yuka Takahashi (Yamaguchi University) | |
| Frühneuzeitliche Fremdsprachenlehrwerke als Quellen von Sprach- und Didaktikgeschichte zwischen Norm, Gebrauch und Vermittlung | Miriam Hinterholzer (Universität Hamburg) | |
| From Goodbye to Take Care: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Contact-Organizing Routine Formulae in EFL Textbooks | Alina Neemann (Universität Osnabrück) | |
| 11:30 am | Textbook language in bilingual education: linguistic demand and potential subject sequencing as a facilitator for CLIL | Sarah Wunderlich (Universität Koblenz) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00 pm | Die geschlechtergerechte Sprache in französischen DaF-Schulbüchern, eine Sprache zur Abbildung einer soziokulturellen Wirklichkeit in einem normativen Lehrwerk | Laure Gautherot (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) |
| 2:30 pm | “Una cerveza por favor.” Bestellen nur deutsche Touristen so? Bestellungen aus variationspragmatischer Sicht im Spanischunterricht | Javier Caro Reina (Universität zu Köln) |
| 3:00 pm | Coffee break | |
| 3:30 pm | Conversational phrasemes in German EFL textbooks: Frequency, function, and pedagogical considerations | Anna Fankhauser (Universität Osnabrück) & Elen Le Foll (Universität zu Köln) |
| 4:00-6:00 pm | Podium discussion The future of foreign language textbooks: bringing together academics and practitioners |
Valeria Crausaz-Prinz (textbook consultant and Spanish teacher), Annegret Hauser-Teubner (representative of the Cornelsen Verlag), Anja Höing (English schoolteacher), Yvonne Petter-Zimmer (member of the Klett Akademie), Dirk Siepmann (Professor for English language teaching, Universität Osnabrück) |
| from 7:00 pm | Symposium dinner | Holling Wirtshaus (traditional local food) (Hasestraße 53, 49074 Osnabrück) |
Saturday 8 November – Departure
| from 10:00 am | Breakfast followed by an informal tour of the historic city centre | Tante Sophies Backstube (Krahnstraße 4, 49074 Osnabrück) |
Registration
To enable broad accessibility, attendance is free of charge. We kindly request that all participants register by filling out the following form: https://forms.gle/uSqqmkYFqnC26KdG9.
Non-presenting students from Osnabrück University should use this form to register: https://forms.gle/wqYnQ9DS7MWf4tGi7.
This symposium was made possible thanks to generous support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung and the Universitätsgesellschaft Osnabrück e.V..