• Aspects of Literature, Culture and Media DidacticsIntercultural learning
• Empirical foreign language research
• Textbook analysis
•  Educational standards and competence development in the language field
• Teacher education, training and advanced training of foreign language teachers
• Cultural relations and literature of the Enlightenment
•  Italian culture and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
• The genre of the autobiography

 Current research projects

• La didattica dell’italiano come lingua straniera: fra tradizione e innovazione
• La enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera
• El papel de la cultura en la didáctica
• Didactics of Literature: Contents, methods and goals
• Media didactics: video and film in foreign language teaching