Dr Miriam Neigert
Senior Lecturer in German Studies - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Biography
Miriam completed her PhD thesis under a Cotutelle Joint PhD agreement at Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen and Macquarie University, Sydney, in 2018. She is a passionate language teacher of English and German, with more than ten years of teaching experience in a variety of adult and higher education contexts in both Germany and Australia. During her studies at Justus-Liebig Universität, she was part of an e-learning team, creating digital language learning material in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. Miriam’s research interests include motivation and the language learner self, age and language learning, using digital media in the foreign language classroom, and assessment for language learning.
