Research Interests

• Content-based language teaching (CLIL), classroom discourse, discourse analysis, pragmatics, bilingual education
• Phonetics/Phonology, teaching and learning of L2 pronunciation; attitudes and motivation
• word-formation, derivation, word-stress, productivity and discourse; history of English word-formation, theory and methodology of corpus studies in morphology
• teacher education (Forschungsplattform Theory and Practice of Subject Didactics)

Teaching

• introduction to linguistics and phonetics, morphology, discourse analysis
• history of English
• second language learning and teaching, phonetics, educational linguistics, learner language, academic writing, CLIL, word-formation and morphology

MA & PhD supervision in the following areas

• English morphology, word-formation, lexicon, discourse
• Learner language, classroom discourse, CLIL, language attitudes, learner motivation, teaching methodology, curricular planning, etc.

Recent Publications

• 2011. Content and language integrated learning: from practice to principles. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 31, 182-204.
• 2011. Country in Focus. Research on languaget eaching and learning in Austria (2004-2009) (with Eva Vetter & Renate Faistauer) Language Teaching  44.2, 181–211.
• 2010 Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula, Ute Smit (eds.). Language use and language learning in CLIL. (AALS Series 7). Amsterdam etc.: Benjamins.
• 2009. Communicative competence and the CLIL lesson. In: Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe and Rosa Jimenez Catalan (Eds.) Content and Language Integrated Learning: Evidence from Research in Europe . Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 197-214.
• 2009. Mehlmauer-Larcher, B. C.Dalton-Puffer, J. Hüttner. 2009. Bereit für professionelle Herausforderungen: Universitäre EnglischlehrerInnenbildung in Wien. Erziehung und Unterricht 159/5-6, 518-526.
• 2009. Dalton-Puffer, C., Julia Hüttner, Veronika Schindelegger, Ute Smit. Technology geeks speak out: what students think about vocational CLIL. International CLIL Research Journal 1,2  17-25.
• 2008. Outcomes and processes in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): current research from Europe. In Werner Delanoy and Laurenz Volkmann, (eds.) Future Perspectives for English Language Teaching. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 139-157.
• 2007. Discourse in CLIL Classrooms. (Language Learning and Language Teaching 20). Amsterdam etc.: Benjamins.
• 2007. Academic language functions in a CLIL environment. In: David Marsh and Dieter Wolff (eds.). Diverse Contexts – Converging Goals. (Mehrsprachigkeit in Schule und Unterricht 6). Frankfurt etc.: Peter Lang, 201-210.
• 2007. mit U. Smit (eds.) Empirical perspectives on CLIL classroom discourse – CLIL: Empirische Untersuchungen zum Unterrichtsdiskurs (Sprache im Kontext). Frankfurt, Wien: Peter Lang.
• 2006. mit T. Nikula. Pragmatics of content-based instruction: teacher and student directives in Finnish and Austrian classrooms. Applied Linguistics 27, 241-267.
• 2005. Negotiating interpersonal meanings in naturalistic classroom discourse: directives in Content and Language Integrated Classrooms . Journal of Pragmatics. 37-8, 1275-1293.