Inez De Florio is a German applied linguist and educational psychologist whose work focuses on science-oriented teaching and learning with particular reference to multilingualism and intercultural competence. Inez De Florio is a proponent of empirical research. Her critical view of evidence-based education leads her to a particular focus on individual aspects of teachers, learners and the learning context. In her introduction to Teaching and Learning English in the Digital Age, she exemplifies how to implement digital media in foreign language classrooms. Furthermore, she shows that the rapidly increasing influences of digitization lead to more internationalized and globalized research-orientated teaching and learning approaches.
Career
After graduating from university, De Florio-Hansen taught foreign languages at the secondary school level as well as in adult education. She then worked at the education ministry in the German state of Hesse as adviser and teacher trainer for teachers of migrant students. She received her Ph.D in Literature from the University of Aachen in Germany in 1971. Her post-doctoral thesis at Goethe University in Frankfurt was an empirical study of vocabulary acquisition by adult learners. After teaching at various German universities, she held a chair as Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany, between 1994 and 1996. In 1996, she became a Professor in the department of Humanities at the University of Kassel, Germany, retiring in 2008.
Publications
De Florio-Hansen has published several books, more than a hundred and fifty featured articles, and a series of textbooks. Among her well-known books in English are her volume on Effective Teaching and Successful Learning published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 an her newest release about the use of digital tools and the promotion of media competence in combination with reliable methods. In 2011, she was honored with a Festschrift covering many fields of her research.
Selected publications (in English)
* De Florio-Hansen, Inez/Warschauer, Mark. Multilingualism, Identity, and the Internet. In: De Florio-Hansen, Inez/Hu, Adelheid : Plurilingualität und Identität. Zur Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung mehrsprachiger Menschen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 155-179.
* De Florio-Hansen, Inez : Online versus Onsite Learning? Insights into Computer-Based University Courses in Foreign Language Pedagogy. In: Fremdsprachen und Hochschule 77, 9-32.
* De Florio-Hansen, Inez : How to Become a Successful Language Learner. Autonomy, Styles and Strategies Revisited. In: Fremdsprachen und Hochschule 81, 9-40.
* De Florio-Hansen, Inez : Introduction. In: De Florio-Hansen, Inez : Towards Multilingualism and the Inclusion of Cultural Diversity. Kassel: kassel university press, 7-18.
* De Florio-Hansen, Inez : How migrant students of Turkish origin perceive their school and family contexts. In: De Florio-Hansen, Inez : Towards Multilingualism and the Inclusion of Cultural Diversity. Kassel: kassel university press, 99-128.
* De Florio, Inez : Effective Teaching and Successful Learning. Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
* De Florio-Hansen, Inez : Teaching and Learning English in the Digital Age. New York/Münster: Waxmann.
