Cripps A23
St John’s College
Cambridge CB2 1TP
Theresa Lentfort obtained her Master of Education in German and Classical Philology at Münster University in 2018. She has been teaching German at universities in four different countries, including the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and Yogyakarta State University in Indonesia, where she worked as a DAAD teaching assistant in 2016 and 2017. Before coming to Cambridge in 2018, she also delivered courses for advanced learners at Bocholt University of Applied Sciences in Germany in cooperation with WiPDaF Münster (Wissenschaftliche Partnerschaften Deutsch als Fremdsprache). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
As the DAAD Lector for German at St John’s, Sidney Sussex and Homerton College, Theresa Lentfort is teaching advanced grammar courses at the Section of German as well as German through the Media and Translation from English into German. She is also supervising the students throughout their undergraduate studies for their Speaking and Use of German, Translation into German as well as German Text and Culture papers.
Her research interests are in the field of linguistics, didactics and foreign language acquisition.
Lentfort, T and Mentchen, S (2023) ‘Show me the verb: Visualisierung von Wortstellungsregeln im DaF-Unterricht für die Grundstufe’. In: GfL 2/2023. To be published in 09/2023.
Künzl-Snodgrass, A., Lentfort, T. and de Vincent-Humphreys, M. (2022) ‘Effective vocabulary learning apps: what should they look like? An evaluation with a particular view to German language acquisition’. In Ab intio Language Teaching in Higher Education: The case of German, edited by Ulrike Bavendiek, Silke Mentchen, Christian Mossmann and Dagmar Paulus, 167–182. UCL.
