Lenzing, Anke, Univ.-Prof.in habil. Mag.a Dr.in

Portrait Anke Lenzing

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About the person

  • Head of the Department of subject-specific Education | 01.03.2026 - today

  • University Professor for English Didactics at the University of Innsbruck | 2021 - today

  • Temporary Senior Academic Councillor, Institute for English and American Studies, Paderborn University | 2019 - 2021

  • Research Assistant, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Paderborn | 2005 - 2019

  • Substitute W2 Professorship of English Linguistics, University of Paderborn | 2018 - 2019

  • Habilitation at the University of Paderborn, Venia in the subjects English Linguistics & Psycholinguistics. Topic of the habilitation thesis: The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition: An Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model | 2019

  • Honorary Visiting Scholar at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia (scholarship holder of the Heinrich Hertz Foundation) | 2015 - 2016

  • Doctorate, University of Paderborn. Dissertation topic: The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition | 2011

  • English teacher at b.i.b. (training centre for information processing professions), Paderborn | 2004 - 2005

  • Language course teacher for English (adult education centre) | 2004 - 2005

  • English teacher for business English and communication courses for companies | 2004 - 2005

  • Master's degree in English and American Studies and Media Studies, University of Paderborn, Magistra Artium (M.A.) | 1996 - 2004

  • Study abroad, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia | 2002 - 2003

Teaching

Courses in the compulsory module 2 of the Bachelor's degree programme in Teacher Education as well as in compulsory and elective modules of the Master's degree programme, selected courses of the PhD programme in Education, for example:

  • Instructed second language acquisition
  • VO Theories of specialised didactic research
  • SE Methods and instruments of subject-specific didactics research: English
  • Education laboratory

Research

Skills acquisition

  • (Instructed) Second Language Acquisition

  • Applying Dynamical Systems Theory to SLA (mit Manfred Pienemann & Howard Nicholas)

  • Psycholinguistic perspectives on turn-taking in SLA

  • Formulaic sequences in instructed SLA (mit Jana Roos)

  • Exploring the interface between comprehension and production in SLA

  • Transfer in SLA

Publications

Monographies

  • Lenzing, A. (2021) The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition: An Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Lenzing, A. (2013) The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition: The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Editorships

  • Lenzing, A., Nicholas, H. & Roos, J. (Hrsg.) (2019) Widening contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and Issues. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Keßler, J.-U., Lenzing, A. & M. Liebner (Hrsg.) (2016) Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Articles in journals

  • Pienemann, M., Lenzing, A. & Nicholas, H. (2024) Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality. Second Language Research, 402-420
  • Nicholas, Howard; Pienemann, Manfred; Lenzing, Anke (2022): Teacher decision-making, dynamical systems and Processability Theory. Instructed Second Language Acquisition 6/2, S. 219 - 247.
  • Lenzing, A. (2015) Exploring regularities and dynamic systems in L2 development. Language Learning Special Issue (“Orders and sequences in L2 acquisition: 40 years on”), Volume 65, Issue 1, 89-122.
  • Keßler, J.-U. & A. Lenzing (2014) Do you have two cloud? The role of grammar in the EFL classroom. Zeitschrift für Sprachunterricht und Sprachenlernen, 02/2014, 30-35.
  • Lenzing, A., Plesser, A., Hagenfeld, K. & M. Pienemann (2013). Transfer at the initial state. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, 3/2013, 265-286.
  • Lenzing, A., Kersten, K., Ponto, K. & J. Wiegand (in prep.) Developmental stages in L2 comprehension: Investigating and extending a processing framework.
  • Pienemann, M., Lenzing, A. & H. Nicholas (in prep.) Can Dynamical Systems Theory explain SLA?

Articles in anthologies and textbooks

  • Lenzing, A. Pienemann, M. & H. Nicholas (2023) Lost in translation? On some key features of dynamical systems theorizing invoked in SLA research. In: Kersten, K. & A. Winsler (eds.). Understanding variability in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and cognition: A multi-layered perspective. New York: Routledge, pp. 39-79.
  • Pienemann, M., Lanze, F., Nicholas, H. & Lenzing, A. (2022) Stabilization. A dynamic account. In: Benati, A. & Schwieter, J. (eds.) Second language acquisition as shaped by the scholarly legacy of Michael Long. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 29-76.
  • Lenzing, A. & Håkansson, G. (2022). Language transfer with regard to grammatical phenomena in L1 German learners of English. In: Schick, K. & A. Rohde (eds) Vom integrativem zu inklusivem Englischunterricht. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, pp. 291-310.
  • Pienemann, M. & A. Lenzing (2020). Processability Theory. In: VanPatten, B., Keating, G.D. & S. Wulff (eds.) Theories in Second Language Acquisition. An Introduction. 3rd edition. New York: Routledge.
  • Lenzing, A. (2019). Die Schnittstelle zwischen Sprachproduktion und Sprachverstehen im Zweitspracherwerb. In: Falkenhagen, C., Funk, H., Reinfried, M., Volkmann, L. (Hrsg.). Sprachen lernen integriert – global, regional, lokal. Dokumentation zum 27. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF), Jena, 27.-30. September 2017. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 337-352.
  • Lenzing, A. (2019). Towards an integrated model of grammatical encoding and decoding in SLA. In: Lenzing, A., Nicholas, H. & Roos, J. (eds.) Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and Issues. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 13-48.
  • Lenzing, A., Nicholas, H. & J. Roos (2019). Contextualising Issues in Processability Theory. In: Lenzing, A., Nicholas, H. & Roos, J. (eds.) Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and Issues. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-8.
  • Nicholas, H., Lenzing, A. & J. Roos (2019) How does PT’s view of acquisition relate to the challenge of widening perspectives on SLA? In: Lenzing, A., Nicholas, H. & Roos, J. (Hrsg.). Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and Issues. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 391-398.
  • Keßler, J. & A. Lenzing (2018) “Grammar in foreign and second language classes.” In: The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. New York: Wiley.
  • Keßler, J.-U., Lenzing, A. & A. Plesser (2018) “Processability Theory: Architecture and application.” In: Wright, C., Piske, T. & M. Young-Scholten (Hrsg.) Mind Matters in SLA. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
  • Lenzing, A. (2016) “The development of argument structure in the grammatical system of early L2 learners.” In: Keßler, J.-U., Lenzing, A. & M. Liebner (Hrsg.) Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Pienemann, M., A. Lenzing & J.-U. Keßler (2016) “Developmentally moderated transfer in second language development.” In: Keßler, J.-U., Lenzing, A. & M. Liebner (Hrsg.) Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Lenzing, A. (2015) “Constraints on processing: L1 transfer and the L2 initial mental grammatical system.” In: Baten, K., Van Herreweghe, V., Buyl, A. & K. Lochtmann (Hrsg.) Theory Development in Processability Theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Lenzing, A. & M. Pienemann (2015) “Exploring the interface between morphosyntax and discourse/pragmatics/semantics” In: Baten, K., Van Herreweghe, V., Buyl, A. & K. Lochtmann (Hrsg.) Theory Development in Processability Theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Pienemann, M. & A. Lenzing (2015) “Processability Theory” In: VanPatten, B. & J. Williams (Hrsg.) Theories in Second Language Acquisition. An Introduction. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 159-179.
  • Pienemann, M., J.-U. Keßler & A. Lenzing (2013) “Developmentally Moderated Transfer and the role of the L2 in L3 acquisition.” In: Flymann Mattsson, A. & C. Norrby (Hrsg.) Language Acquisition and Use in Multilingual Contexts: Theory and Practice. Lund: Travaux de L'Institute Linguistique de Lund, 142-159.
  • Lenzing, A. & J. Roos (2012) “Die sprachliche Entwicklung und die Ausdrucksmöglich-keiten von Grundschülerinnen und Grundschülern im Englischunterricht.” In: Dokumentation zum 24. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF) Hamburg, Oktober 2011. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 207-220.
  • Lenzing, A. (2008) “Teachability and learnability: An analysis of primary school textbooks.” In: Keßler, J.-U. (Hrsg.) Processabilty Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 221-241.
  • Keßler, J.-U. & A. Lenzing (2008):“The dog is grabing” - Englischunterricht in der Grundschule und den Übergang neu denken.” In: Heggen, T. & D. Götze (Hrsg.) Grundschule neu denken. Beiträge des Paderborner Grundschultages 2006 zu Heterogenität, Medien und Ganztag. Münster: LIT, 99-109.
  • Lenzing, A. (2006) “Lehrwerke für den frühen Fremdsprachenunterricht: Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Analyse.” in: Pienemann, M., E. Roos & J. Keßler (Hrsg.) Englischerwerb in der Grundschule. Paderborn: Schöningh/UTB, 185-196.

All publications

Scientific organisation

  • Data protection representative 
  • Student representative for English didactics

Editorial Board

  • Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching (PALART) (book series, Benjamins)

Reviewer activities (international journals, book series & organisations)

  • Second Language Research (Journal, SAGE)

  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Journal, Cambridge)

  • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (Journal, Benjamins)

  • International Journal of Bilingualism (Journal, SAGE)

  • Instructed Second Language Acquisition (Journal, Equinox)

  • Language Teaching Research (Journal, SAGE)

  • Language Learning (Journal, Wiley)

  • Language, Interaction & Acquisition (Journal, Benjamins)

  • Journal of the European Second Language Association (Journal, EuroSLA)

  • Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching (PALART) (book series, Benjamins)

  • EuroSLA Monographs (book series)

  • National Science Foundation, USA (project proposals)

  • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (project proposals)

  • Cambridge University Press (books)

  • Springer (books)

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