Mut zur Stimme - ein Stimmcoaching 2026

Gene Thompson has been working in language education for more than 18 years. He is primarily interested in teacher and learner cognitions about language learning, content and language-integrated learning, English-medium instruction, and self-access learning. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Business at Rikkyo University, Japan. He coordinates courses in the Bilingual Business Leader Program (one of the few bilingual business degrees programs in Asia) and in the Master in International Business Program (one of the few English-medium graduate business programs in Japan). His recent work is focused on the integration of content and language learning within programs where English is used an international language. In 2018 he had two chapters published in The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching and has forthcoming publications in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and the Asian ESP Journal . He also has published about language teacher development and self-access learning in journals such as Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching and Studies in Self-Access Learning. Gene has a PhD in Education from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His PhD dissertation "Japanese high school English teachers' self-efficacy beliefs about teaching English" received an outstanding doctoral thesis award from Queensland University of Technology in 2016 and was nominated for the 2017 Australian Association for Research in Education Ray Debus Award.

Dr. Dominik Rumlich is junior/associate professor of TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) at the University of Münster, Germany, and works as a teacher of English at Hittorf-Gymnasium in Recklinghausen. In 2017, he was deputy chair of psycholinguistics, second language acquisition (including TEFL) at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Before his appointment as professor, he pursued his PhD studies in the field of CLIL as a junior lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 2009-2016, where he obtained his teacher’s degree/first state exam for the subjects of English and geography. His areas of teaching and research include CLIL, assessment, affective-motivational determinants of language learning (esp. EFL self-concept and interest), learning strategies, and empirical research methods (esp. quantitative). He is currently involved in multiple research projects on CLIL, assessment, young adult fiction in the language classroom, the transition between primary and secondary school and teacher education. His statistical inclination came to fruition in the course of his two-year quasi-experimental PhD study with 1,400 students, for which he got nicknamed “Mr. Data” by his supervisor Prof. Dr. Bernd Rüschoff (Dusiburg-Essen).