About the Editors

Professor Claus Ehrhardt
is Professor of German Language and Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Urbino in Italy. His main research interests are in the fields of linguistic pragmatics, politeness theory, sociolinguistics, phraseology and intercultural communication.

Dr Diana Feick
Diana Feick is Junior Professor in German as a Foreign and Second Language at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She gained her PhD from the University of Leipzig and subsequently held a post-doc position at the University of Vienna and then was Senior Lecturer at The University of Auckland/New Zealand. Her research areas are Digital Media in GfL, Mobile Language Learning, Virtual Exchange, Virtual Learning Spaces, Learner Autonomy, and Multimodal Language Learner Online Interaction.

Associate Professor Klaus Geyer
teaches German language and linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. He previously worked at the Universities of Erfurt, Bielefeld and Kiel (where he completed his PhD in 2002) and the Pedagogical University of Vilnius . His research and teaching focuses on the functional-typological grammar of German, linguistic variation, language policy and language management, professional communication/LSP, Landeskunde studies and translational topics.

Professor Chris Hall
is Emeritus Professor of German at University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, having previously taught at the universities of Bonn, Tampere (Finland), Leicester (UK) and Waikato (NZ). His research interests are in the fields of German linguistics and phonetics, language teaching and testing, computer-assisted language learning, and intercultural communication.

Dr Heiko F. Marten
is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, in the project about Language Minority and Majority in German. Past appointments at Rēzekne Academy of Technologies (Latvia), as DAAD Lecturer at Tallinn University (Estonia), Director of the DAAD Information Centre in Riga. Following a PhD from the Free University of Berlin, his research covers language policy/planning, minority languages, linguistic landscapes, language attitudes/discourses.

Professor Silke Mentchen
is Professor of German Studies at the University of Cambridge and fellow at Magdalene College. She has been teaching German at all levels since 1994. In her work and research, she focuses on curriculum design, teaching methodology, the teaching of translation, and the use of technology in language teaching.

Professor Melani Schroeter
is Professor in German and Discourse Studies at the University of Reading, UK. Her research interests are in the field of public/political discourse analysis, pragmatics, lexicology and sociolinguistics as well as comparative, cross-linguistic analyses.

Dr Katrin Biebighäuser (Heidelberg)
Professor Christian Fandrych (Leipzig)
Professor Guido Rings (Cambridge)
Dr Reinhard Tenberg (Cambridge)
Professor Norbert Pachler (London)
Dr Uwe Matthias Richter (Cambridge, former GFL webmaster)
Dr Klaus-Dieter Rossade (Milton Keynes)
Professor Nicola Würffel (Leipzig)
Professor Peter Colliander (Jyväskylä/Copenhagen/Munich)
Professor Joanne Leal (London)