Professor Dr. Vera Busse

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Vera Busse is a Professor of Education and Multilingualism at the University of Münster. She works on a range of educational issues pertaining to language learning and to teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. In particular, she has a keen interest in literacy development. Vera and her team mostly conduct intervention studies with students, but they are also interested in finding ways to better prepare teachers for diversity. Among other projects, her team is investigating how teachers can better develop students’ writing in a diversity-sensitive way, and she has authored various articles on effective instructional strategies and feedback for struggling writers.

Before coming to Münster, she held a full professorship for education and diversity at the University of Koblenz-Landau. In 2016, she completed her habilitation and was granted the Venia Legendi for educational sciences by the Department of Education at the University of Oldenburg. She worked at the University of Oldenburg for five years, serving as an acting professor of teaching didactics and school pedagogy for two years. She holds a PhD in Educational Science from the University of Oxford, England, where she graduated with a thesis on language learning motivation in 2011. Before embarking on her doctoral project, she obtained a postgraduate diploma in learning and teaching in higher education and became a fellow of the English Higher Education Academy in 2008. During her time at Oxford, she also worked for the German Academic Exchange Service as a DAAD-Lektor in the German department for four years, where she was awarded the Oxford University Teaching Award in 2008. She has ample teaching experience in EFL (English as a foreign language) and GFL (German as a foreign language) in several countries, including Australia, England, Germany, Namibia, and Spain. Finally, she is a qualified teacher for secondary schools in Germany (Staatsexamen I & II, Sek I & II, English and German). That is to say, she also has first-hand experience with teaching a variety of students in different cultural contexts.