Ulla Fürstenberg (@ufuerstenberg) — Bluesky Profile

1 month ago

The shopfront of the Doktor Burgeric takeaway: it advertises "Burger, Čevapčiči and more", illustrated with a gaping mouth and teeth.

#LinguisticLandscape Graz, Austria (a takeaway near the university hospital)

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1 month ago

It was a pleasure to host the first in-person meeting of the DACH Regional Group of the ICLHE Association in Graz with Petra Kletzenbauer. Now we're all looking forward to the ICLHE Symposium in Winterthur (15-16 Oct 2026). The call is still open: www.iclhe.org/conferences-...

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1 month ago

SLTED2026 Who's joining us? #curriculum @morayhouse.bsky.social @davidgerlach.bsky.social #language #teachered

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1 month ago

That's great to hear, thank you!

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1 month ago

A photograph of the main building of the University of Graz in winter.

The main building of the University of Pécs on a sunny day.

Judit Dombi (University of Pécs) and I compared our student teachers' Extramural English use and their plans for teaching English as a global language and found many similarities and some differences. Our paper has just been published in ExELL: doi.org/10.51558/230...

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1 month ago

A screenshot of the title page of the paper "Research for change: Collaborative reflexivity as a means to promote professional growth when integrating content and language in higher education" (by Ulla Fürstenberg, Margit Reitbauer and Petra Kletzenbauer) in volume 119 of the Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée.

A photograph of the cover of volume 119 of the Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, Reflections on co-production as a research practice in the field of foreign language teaching and learning

Always nice to receive a physical copy of a paper 😊 "Research for change: Collaborative reflexivity as a means to promote professional growth in ICLHE" (with Margit Reitbauer, Petra Kletzenbauer) is out now in Bulletin suisse die linguistique appliquée DOI 10.26034/ne.vals.2025.8873Research

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3 months ago

Group photograph of the participants and experts at the IAPLL doctoral school.

A photograph of the venue of the doctoral school (University of Graz).

I'm honoured to have been a part of the first doctoral school of the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning (IAPLL). I enjoyed spending time with the participants and hope that our paths will cross again in the future.

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3 months ago

A photograph of the University of Pardubice campus

View from the English Dept. at the University to Pardubice on the 13th floor on a snowy day.

First snow of the year on my Erasmus visit to the University of Pardubice to discuss a new partnership. Thank you to the English Department for hosting me in their offices on the 13th floor 😊

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3 months ago

A screenshot of a writeup of a seminar at KPH Wien (Campus At. Pölten): "Wenn Sprachbewusstsein auf Forschung trifft: Mit einem inspirierenden Schwerpunkt startete das Seminar Fachliches Lernen Englisch – Sprachenlernen und Sprachdidaktik für Fortgeschrittene im Masterstudium Primar an der KPH, Campus St. Pölten in das neue Semester. Durch die Verbindung aus theoretischen Impulsen und praktischer Forschung rund um den Linguin gelang ein besonders anschaulicher Einstieg in die Themen Linguistic Landscapes und Global English. (Teacher Talk mit Dr. Ulla Fürstenberg, Universität Graz)

Thank you for inviting me to talk to students in the Master's programme at kphvie.ac.at and for the shout-out to derlinguin.uni-graz.at 🐧

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8 months ago

People listen to the words of a student representative at a vigil for the victims of the school shooting at BORG Dreierschützengasse secondary school in Graz, Austria.

A sticker with a stylised depiction of a rose and the German words Wir halten zusammen and their English translation, we stand together. The stickers were handed out at the vigil for the victims of the school shooting on 10 June 2025.

A vigil for the victims of the school shooting on 10 June 2025 #Graz Wir halten zusammen - we stand together.

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9 months ago

The cover of "The Library of Lost Books"

The blurb of "The Library of Lost Books": Two 15-year-old teenagers travel through the infinite world of the library of lost books. What are they going to discover on the journey? Join them on their adventures through time and space.

A photo of the flyleaf with the signatures of the students who contributed to the book.

When a reading project becomes a writing project: The Library of Lost Books was written by a group of 14-year-old students and their English teacher Heidrun Lang-Heran at Körösi secondary school here in Graz. I managed to get my copy signed by most of the authors, and I can't wait to start reading!

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9 months ago

Thank you, Nayr! It's a brilliant activity.

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9 months ago

A collage of DLC (Dominant Language Constellation) artefacts created by Austrian student teachers of English.

Inspired by @nayr2.bsky.social a group of Austrian student teachers of English created their own DLC artefacts today. We all loved the results!

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10 months ago

A sign advertising "Pécsi Kave" (Pécs coffee), with the English words "coffee & more" below. The silhouette of the mosque which is the symbol of Pécs forms the background of the sign.

A decorative sign showing the word "Welcome" surrounded by a wreath of leaves and berries. The abbreviations of the days of the week in the information about opening hours below it are in Hungarian.

The Mosque of Pasha Qasim in Pécs, Hungary, one of the symbols of the city. Built by Pasha Qasim the Victorious between 1543 and 1546, converted into a church in 1702 after Habsburg-Hungarian troops reconquered the city.

#LinguisticLandscape #Pécs

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11 months ago

When You’ve Only Known Me in One Language — Kevin Wong, Ph.D. A friend and I were talking about our childhoods outside the U.S.—how we grew up, what we missed, and what’s been hard to translate into our lives here. At one point, she said, a little exasperated bu...

What do we miss about someone when we only know them in one language? If you’ve never heard someone in the language that holds their memories, humor, and sense of home—you may not have met all of them yet. www.kevin-m-wong.com/blog/2025/4/...

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11 months ago

A slide from the presentation with the photos, names and affiliations of the presenters.

Session information for: (Ir)reconcilable differences?
Moving from either/or to both/and
in ELT
Sandra Kotzor (LMU Munich), Eowyn
Crisfield (Crisfield Educational
Consulting), Jane Spiro (Oxford
Brookes University), Rachel McIntyre
(LMU Munich), Isabella Fritz
(University of Oxford)

As always, there were lots of interesting talks and workshops at IATEFL, but I particularly enjoyed this format because it allowed a thoughtful, thorough exploration of the topic. I would love to see more such sessions at #IATEFL2026 🙂

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11 months ago

Group photograph: a group of student teachers from the University of Graz on the steps in front of the Pentland Auditorium at Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

If you want to see #IATEFL2025 through the eyes of student teachers, our group from the University of Graz did a wonderful job documenting their experiences on Instagram: @leap_interface. For most of them, it was their first IATEFL conference 😊 but I think we'll see them at IATEFL again!

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11 months ago

A photo of the National Gallery of Scotland, with the Old Town in the background.

Edinburgh Castle seen from Princes Street, in the evening sun.

The week went by so fast! Edinburgh was a wonderful host city for #IATEFL2025

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11 months ago

Sounds familiar what Ken Lackman is suggesting here, just like #ReallyRealGrammar #iatefl2025

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11 months ago

Jon Hird sharing some practical ideas to integrate spoken grammar in our teaching. #IATEFL2025

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11 months ago

Luiz Otavio Barros encouraging us to ‘get dirty with language’ in his talk on Demand High teaching #IATEFL2025

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11 months ago

Fabulous and engaging plenary by Neil McMillan on task-based language teaching (TBLT) at #IATEFL2025. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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11 months ago

Roos, J., & Nicholas, H. (2019). Using young learners’ language environments for EFL learning: Ways of working with linguistic landscapes. AILA Review, 32(1), 91-111.

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11 months ago

Maybe via Austrian German "Knödel" for dumpling? 🧐

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11 months ago

A poster with the slogan "I knedlike you", advertising a fast food restaurant that exclusively serves dumplings. The image shows a dumpling (Czek knederlík = dumpling).

A poster with the slogan "Habibi come to Knederlín", advertising a fast food restaurant that exclusively serves dumplings. The image shows a dumpling (Czek knederlík = dumpling).

#LinguisticLandscape Prague - advertising for a bistro that specialises in filled dumplings (knederlík = dumpling)

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1 year ago

Online formats seem to work really well for some events, and today's online conference on "Materials Development in Foreign/Second Language Teacher Education" @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social was one such case. Looking forward to seeing what this new network does next! #MaterialDevelopingTeachers

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1 year ago

Since @bsky.app has a butterfly logo, @quothalinguist.bsky.social has suggested calling posts flutters. I like it. #flutter #bluesky

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1 year ago

Don’t miss the chance to present at the ATEE Conference 2025 in Dublin. The theme is “The Making of Authentic Teachers in Ages of Artificiality?” #CfP now open. All shares appreciated!

⏰ Abstracts, 6 Jan 2025
@marinoinstitute.bsky.social
📅 26-29 Aug 2025
🔗 www.mie.ie/ateeannual2025

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1 year ago

A screenshot of the acceptance email from IATEFL for a shared presentation with Hanna Gottlieb-Zimmermann and Sophie Thurner, entitled 'Wonder Words: creative vocabulary building with advanced learners of English

☺️

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