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Ingeborg C. Walther, Associate Professor of the Practice and Chair, Germanic Languages and Literature

Contact Info:

Office Location:	116J Old Chem Bldg
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 3163, +1 919 660 3160
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/languages/german/

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1987
M.A.	Tufts University	1974
B.A.	Stanford University	1973

Specialties:

Applied Linguistics
Pedagogy
20th Century Literature

Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition Theory, Critical Pedagogy, and Modern German Drama

Ingeborg Walther is Associate Professor of the Practice and former Chair of the German Department at Duke University, where she currently serves as Associate Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Her research interests include German theater, second language acquisition, and foreign language pedagogy. She has published a monograph on the theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz, and articles on curriculum development, theories of language acquisition, and approaches to teaching German language, culture, and literature at the college level. Her research deals primarily with the intersections of language, culture, and identity. Her work explores in particular the relationships between language and power, reader and text, text and context. The workshops and presentations she has given on using poetry, music, and theater in the language classroom show how important cultural texts can be used even at beginning levels in substantive, intellectually challenging ways, while taking fuller account of the affective and extra-linguistic dimensions of communication and learning.

Areas of Interest:

German Language
German Literature
Foreign Language Teaching
Second Language Acquisition

Keywords:

German • Literature • Language • Pedagogy

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Katharina Uhde  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Walther, I, The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz (1990), Peter Lang
2. Walther, I, Curricular Planning Along the Fault Line Between Instrumental and Academic Agendas: A Response to the MLA Report on ’Foreign Languages and Higher Education, New Structures for a Changed World’, Die Unterrichtspraxis, vol. Volume 42 no. 2 (Fall, 2009), pp. 115-122
3. Walther, I, Developing and Implementing an Evaluation of the Foreign Language Requirement at Duke University, in Towards Useful Program Evaluation in College Foreign Language Education, NFLRC Mongraphs, edited by Norris, JM; Davis, JM; Sinicrope, C; Watanabe, Y (2009), pp. 119-140, National Foreign Language Resource Center
4. Walther, I, "Ecological Perspectives on Language and Literacy: Implications for Foreign Language Instruction at the Collegiate Level", ADFL Bulletin (Winter, 2007)
5. Walther, I, Franz Xaver Kroetz, in Encyclopedia of German Literature (2000), Chicago, London, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
6. Walther, I, Articulation of the German Language Curriculum (Fall, 2000) (German Department publication.)
7. Walther, I, Teaching Assistant Handbook (Spring, 2007)  [author's comments]

Selected Invited Lectures

1. "Goethe, Romanticism, and the German 'Lied'", October 29, 2011, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill    
2. "Goethe-in-Song" (Lecture/Recital), February, 2011, Duke University, also presented at Meredith College and Wake Forest University    
3. "Assessing the Undergraduate Major: Some Considerations for Program Design and Development", October 10, 2008, AAUSC (American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators) German Section Annual Meeting, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI    
4. “Curricular Planning along the Fault Line between ‘Instrumental’ and ‘Academic’ Agendas: A Response to the MLA Report: on Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World", April 03, 2008, Duke-UNC Works-in-Progress Series, UNC Chapel Hill    
5. “The Use of Electronic Teaching Portfolios in Graduate Student Teacher Training”, April 26, 2007, Duke University    
6. “Ecological Perspectives on Language and Literacy: Implications for Foreign Language Instruction at the Collegiate Level.”, December 14, 2006, Duke University    
7. Keynote Lecture: "Language and Culture from the Bottom Up: Re-thinking the Foreign Language Curriculum", October 08, 2005, West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association, Morgantown, West Virginia