
Marcel Foerster
Doctoral Student / University Fellow
foerster.18@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Hagerty Hall, 4th floor
Education
First State Exam (a combined BA+MA degree for teacher candidates), University of Kassel, Germany, teaching degree for secondary school teaching in English, History, and Education, 2021
M.A., The University of Alabama (German Studies), 2019
Research Interests
- Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology and Pedagogy
- (New) Media Studies
- 20th and 21st Century German Literature
- German Romanticism
- Film Studies
- Intercultural Studies
Employment
Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies,
The University of Kassel
Fall 2021 – Spring 2022
Fall 2021: courses taught on an undergraduate level:
- The Mental Lexicon and Vocabulary Acquisition
- Listening and Speaking
- Testing, Assessment and Evaluation in the EFL Classroom
Fall 2021: courses taught on a combined undergraduate and graduate level:
- Working with Research Portfolios
- Teaching Practicum for Secondary School Teaching Candidates
Spring 2022: courses taught on an undergraduate level:
- Pop Culture in Language Education
- Writing in the EFL Classroom
- Mental Lexicon and Vocabulary Acquisition in the EFL Classroom
Fall 2022: courses taught on a combined undergraduate and graduate level:
- Teaching Practicum for Secondary School Teaching Candidates
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Alabama
Fall 2018 – Fall 2019
Fall 2019: courses taught:
German 102
Tutor and Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Kassel
Spring 2020 – Fall 2021
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
- Assisted faculty with teaching and research
- Collaborated with Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner in the ongoing project: Online Educational Initiatives: An Intercultural Online Cooperation between German, Israeli, and Arab Students
Conferences
Presenter, Self-, Peer-, and Group-Assessment Analyses on Diverse Group Communication in a Digital Higher Education Learning Environment: A Mixed Method Approach
Association for Language Awareness (ALA), July 2022
Co-organizer, International Student Conference
The University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, June 2022
Co-moderator, International Student Colloquium
International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2021
Presenter, Reviving Discourses of Refugee Crises through Translation: From the St. Louis Incident to Present Day
The University of Alabama Languages Conference, The University of Alabama, February 2019
Co-moderator, International Student Conference
Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2018
Professional affiliations, Memberships and Awards
Awards
- University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2022-2023
- Honoree, Hessischer Hochschulpreis für Exzellenz in der Lehre: Zweiter Projektpreis,
May 2019- Second prize on state level for the project ‘Online Educational Initiatives: An Intercultural Online Cooperation between German, Israeli, and Arab Students’
- Scholarship Recipient, Federation of German-American Clubs (VDAC), August 2018
Memberships
National German Honors Society: Delta Phi Alpha
Alabama Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
Association for Language Awareness (ALA)