Current Focus: English Language Speaking Anxiety
Language Educational Neurosciences
Educational Psychology
Sensitive phases of language development: Early foreign language learning & puberty
Multilingualism Didactics
Evidence-based foreign language teaching
Corporate foreign language learning & sales communication
Psychological aspects of language learning: including anxiety, memory, resilience, mindfulness
Lectures and presentations on research focus areas. Contact via the secretary or heiner.boettger(at)ku.de .
Background & Education:
2025 PhD Psychology (University of Hagen, Germany)
2021 Master of Science (MSc) in Educational Neurosciences (Master by Research) at Central Queensland University Australia
1992 PhD English Didactics (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Professional Experience:
2023 Visiting Professor Stanford University, School of Education (USA)
2019-2021 Representative for Global Education of the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
2018 Senior Research Fellow Long Island University New York City (Campus Brooklyn)
2016-2019 Board Member at the center for teacher training and research of the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
2016 Visiting Professor at Akdeniz University Antalya (Turkey), Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece)
2015-present External Academic Reviewer to the Greek state
2014-2015 Visiting Professor at Mercy College New York, New York University, Nebraska Wesleyan University (USA)
2007-present Professor of English Didactics and EFL at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany (Full Professor)
2006-2007 Professor of English Didactics and EFL at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (Temporary Full Professor)
2004-present Chairman of the Early language learning advisory board BIG (foundation Lernen, Munich, Germany)
Post doc studies on Adult English Teaching and Learning in Companies (English for Special purposes)
2004-06 Director of the Department of English Didactics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2002-04 Associate Professor TEFL at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2002 Seminar Chair English Mittelschule in Nürnberg, Germany
1994-2001 Additional university teaching position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
1992 Guest teacher at Sidwell Friends High School in Washington DC, USA
1989-2002 School teacher at several middle schools (Mittelschule, Realschule) in Bavaria, Germany
1984-1989 Lecturer at the adult education centers in Eckental and Nürnberg, Germany
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