Inez De Florio-Hansen
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Inez De Florio (born 1943) is a German applied linguist and educational psychologist whose work focuses on science-oriented teaching and learning with particular reference to multilingualism and intercultural competence. She is a proponent of (qualitative and quantitative) empirical research. Above all, her critical view of evidence-based education leads her to a particular focus on individual aspects of teachers, learners and their learning contexts.
In her introduction to Teaching and Learning English in the Digital Age (2018), she exemplifies how digital media can be implemented in foreign language classrooms. Furthermore, she shows that digitization's rapidly increasing influence will inevitably lead to more internationalized and globalized research-orientated teaching and learning approaches.
Recently, she has focused on newer teaching methods and different feedback forms.
After graduating from university, De Florio taught foreign languages at the secondary school level and in adult education. She then worked for the Ministry of Education (German State of Hesse) as an advisor and teacher trainer for instructors of migrant students.
She received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Aachen in Germany in 1970.[1] Her post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) at Goethe University in Frankfurt was an empirical study of vocabulary acquisition by adult learners.[2] After having taught at various German universities, she held a chair as Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany, between 1994 and 1996. In 1996, she continued as a Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Kassel, Germany, retiring in 2008.
