Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Christiane Dalton-Puffer

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Office hours are held on-site by default. If you want to talk online, please send me an e-mail ahead of time. On the day, use the Zoom-link below:

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Consultation hours: Thursdays 15:00-16:45 (during term-time)
other weekdays during vacation
Out of office: March 31-April 3, April 10-29
During weeks where I am unavailable on the designated day, online office hour by appointment (send me an e-mail).


Postal deliveries to: Institut für Anglistik,
Universitätscampus Hof 8.3, Spitalgasse 2-4, 1090 Wien

Winter term 2025
120003 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
120042 PS Proseminar Linguistics 1 (BA) - Words - Morphology and Lexicon
Summer term 2025
120003 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
120014 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Linguistics
120015 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Didactics
124090 VK BEd 09.2: VK Linguistics and Language Education - Perspectives on Learner Language
Winter term 2024
120003 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
120014 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Linguistics
Bacovsky-Novak, T., Dalton-Puffer, C., Heaney, H., & Hüttner, J. (Eds.) (2025). Current Challenges in Language Teacher Education. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.




Dalton-Puffer, C., Hüttner, J., & Nikula, T. (2024). Introduction: The conceptualisation of disciplinary literacies in CLIL. In Building Disciplinary Literacies in Content and Language Integrated Learning (pp. 1-26). Routledge.

Hüttner, J., & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Eds.) (2024). Building disciplinary literacies in Content and Language Integrated Learning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education


Bacovsky-Novak, T., & Dalton-Puffer, C. (2023). Review of David Lasagabaster. English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Edcuation, 11(2), 283-286. https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.23019.bac

Dalton-Puffer, C. (2023). CLIL as a pedagogical approach. In C. A. Chapelle, & M. Sato (Eds.), Instructed second language acquisition in the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd..

Bauer-Marschallinger, S., Dalton-Puffer, C., Heaney, H., Katzinger, L., & Smit, U. (2023). CLIL for all? An exploratory study of reported pedagogical practices in Austrian secondary schools. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26(9), 1050-1065. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1996533


Dalton-Puffer, C., & Bauer-Marschallinger, S. (2023). L2 proficiency and development in CLIL. In D. Banegas, & S. Zappa-Hollman (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Content and Language Integrated Learning (pp. 112-126). Routledge.

Dalton-Puffer, C., Hüttner, J., & Llinares, A. (2022). CLIL in the 21st Century: Retrospective and prospective challenges and opportunities. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Edcuation, 10(2), 182-206. https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.21021.dal

Dalton-Puffer, C., Hüttner, J., & Smit, U. (2021). From voluntary to obligatory CLIL in upper secondary technical colleges: Teacher and student voices from a diverse landscape. In K. Talbot, S. Mercer, M.-T. Gruber, & R. Nishida (Eds.), The psychological experience of integrating language and content: Teacher and learner perspectives (pp. 93-111). De Gruyter Mouton.

Dalton-Puffer, C. (2020). Modellierung und Beurteilung bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen im Content-and-Language-integrated Learning (CLIL). In A. Drackert, M. Mainzer-Murrenhoff, A. Soltyska, & A. Timukova (Eds.), Testen bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen und akademischer Sprachkompetenzen – Synergien zwischen Schule und Hochschule erkennen und nutzen. Peter Lang.

Dalton-Puffer, C., & Bauer-Marschallinger, S. (2019). Cognitive Discourse Functions meet Historical Competences: Towards an integrated pedagogy in CLIL history education. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Edcuation, 7(1), 30-60.

Dalton-Puffer, C., Boeckmann, K.-B., & Hinger, B. (2019). Research in language teaching and learning in Austria (2011–2017). Language Teaching: Surveys and Studies, 52(2), 201-230.

Dalton-Puffer, C., Bauer-Marschallinger, S., Brückl-Mackey, K., Hofmann, V., Hopf, J., Kröss, L., & Lechner, L. (2018). Cognitive discourse functions in Austrian CLIL lessons: towards an empirical validation of the CDF Construct. European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 6(1), 5-29. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2017-0028

Müller, L.-M., & Dalton-Puffer, C. (2018). How personally involving is the use of L2 in the classroom? Appraisal structures in EFL and CLIL. RILA Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 50(2-3), 33-49.


Students’ linguistic production in CLIL history, physics and English texts: how does it relate to English teacher assessments?

Hüttner, J. (Speaker), Llinares, A. (Speaker) & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

6 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Entwicklungslinien: Forschung zum Lehren und Lernen von und in Fremd- und Zweitsprachen in Österreich

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker), Hüttner, J. (Speaker) & Smit, U. (Contributor)

18 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Community-based multilingualism meets internationalization. The University of Prizren as a nexus of intercommunity contact in Kosovo.

Bacovsky, T. (Speaker), Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker), Hüttner, J. (Speaker), Rakaj, D. (Speaker), Ramadani, R. (Speaker), Schramm, K. (Speaker) & Sejdiu, S. (Speaker)

13 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Research and development pathways in Content and Language Integrated Learning

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

25 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions in CLIL classroom interaction: Teachers’ and students’ classification practices in the L1 and L2

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker) & Evnitskaya, N. (Speaker)

17 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


ADiBE. CLIL for all? The Austrian perspective

Bacovsky, T. (Speaker), Bauer-Marschallinger, S. (Speaker), Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker), Heaney, H. (Speaker), Katzinger, L. (Speaker) & Smit, U. (Speaker)

18 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Students’ uses of categorization in written CLIL history tasks from grade 6 to 10

Evnitskaya, N. (Speaker) & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

17 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Symposium 13 : Building Disciplinary Literacies: Introduction

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker) & Hüttner, J. (Speaker)

17 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions in CLIL classroom interaction: Teachers’ and students’ classification practices in the L1 and L2

Evnitskaya, N. (Speaker) & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

3 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Session 4 ADiBE Video Guides

Smit, U. (Invited speaker), Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker), Matz, F. (Speaker) & Rumlich, D. (Speaker)

19 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions: an interdisciplinary construct for language and content integration

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

19 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From innovation to normality: moving CLIL into the mainstream

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker), Hüttner, J. (Keynote speaker) & Smit, U. (Keynote speaker)

7 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions: an interdisciplinary construct for language and content integration

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

5 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What are the principles behind good teaching materials for content-and-language integration?

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

3 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Zur Modellierung von bildungssprachlichen Kompetenzen in CLIL

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

9 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Academic language competences – the level of discourse functions

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

9 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"What can empirical research tell us about CLIL implementations?" - Mapping the landscape

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

8 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions in primary and secondary CLIL classrooms: Eliciting and analyzing students’ written and oral classifications in science and history

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker) & Evnitskaya, N. (Speaker)

30 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Layers of language support in EMI contexts

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

20 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


An interdisciplinary approach to testing historical competences in Austrian CLIL history classes

Bauer-Marschallinger, S. (Speaker) & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

21 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Great Expectations. What do we want from CLIL, what do we know about it?

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

3 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Policy and practice of CLIL in Austria

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

1 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Der CLIL-Ansatz im MINT Unterricht – Aktuelles aus der internationalen Forschung

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

16 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

18 Sept 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

23 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

19 Jan 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen und Historische Kompetenzen im CLIL Unterricht

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

18 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen und Historische Kompetenzen im CLIL Unterricht

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker) & Bauer-Marschallinger, S. (Speaker)

18 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Identifying joint concerns in content and language pedagogies

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker) & Bauer-Marschallinger, S. (Contributor)

17 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen und naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenzen: Wege zu einer integrierten Didaktik

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

20 Nov 201521 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen als Brückenkonzept in der Integration von Sprach- und Sachlernen

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

10 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen als Brückenkonzept in der Integration von Sprach- und Sachlernen

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Contributor)

5 Nov 20156 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Expressing ‘voice’ in a foreign language across tasks: challenges and opportunities for CLIL students

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

18 Sept 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cognitive Discourse Functions: combining content and language perspectives for CLIL teacher development

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Contributor)

10 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Corpus Linguistics in Language Teacher Education

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

8 May 20159 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Researching Classroom Discourse

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

23 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Policy and practice of CLIL in Europe and beyond

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

22 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Policy and practice of CLIL in Europe and beyond

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


English as a Medium of Instruction in Multilingual University Settings

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

20 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Corpus Linguistics in language teacher education

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

26 Sept 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Irregular Verb Morphology in Austrian Learners of English on A2-Level

Wagner, T. (Speaker), Boniecki, M. (Contributor), Podar, U. (Contributor) & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Contributor)

5 Sept 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Policy Perspectives – Transnational initiatives in Europe

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

12 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Students’ performance in three metafunctions of language: ideational, interpersonal and textual

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

12 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cognitive discourse functions and subject competences

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

Jun 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Task-based learning as a catalyst for CLIL students’ use of interpersonal language

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zum Verhältnis Fach und Fachdidaktik in den Sprachfächern

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

8 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The role of different tasks in CLIL students’ use of evaluative language

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

3 Oct 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Cognitive discourse functions in CLIL classroom talk

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

6 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL 2.0: Literacies through CLIL

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Contributor)

24 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL in Austria: implementation & research

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

15 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Motives and motivations around the implementation of CLIL in Austrian vocational education

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

10 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen als Elemente einer ‘academic literacy’ im CLIL Unterricht

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

30 Apr 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Sprachfunktionen im englischsprachigenFachunterricht (CLIL): Elemente einer ‚academic literacy’

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


”Content-based cognitive strategies and thinking skills in classroom talk”

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

10 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Policy and implementation of CLIL in Austria

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

3 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cognitive language functions in English medium instruction

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

2 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Academic language functions in the CONCLIL project

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Oct 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Research on CLIL - State of the art

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

21 Apr 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


An appraisal theory approach to the language of evaluation in the classroom.

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

18 Apr 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Teachers‘ evaluative practices in content and langauge integrated classrooms

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

25 Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Conceptualising CALP as academic discourse

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

2 Feb 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Institutionelle Rahmungen: eine Dokumentenanalyse zur Struktur de Fachdidaktik an der Universität Wien

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Selected presenter)

5 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forschungsplattform "Theorie und Praxis der Fachdidaktik(en)"

Götz, S. (Speaker) & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

3 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Forschungsplattform "Theorie und Praxis der Fachdidaktik(en)"

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

3 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kompetenzorientierung und Bildungsstandards im bilingualen Unterricht. Impulsreferat.

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

18 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Lay theories and their influence on the implementation of CLIL programmes.

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Selected presenter)

18 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A CLIL Module during initial teacher education

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

2 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forschungsplattform der Universität Wien. Theory and Practice of Subject Didactics

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

25 Sept 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Teacher education for content and language integrated learning

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

24 Sept 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Explaining as content and language integration

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Explaining in CLIL : Integrating content and language on the micro level

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

8 Mar 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forschungsplattform "Theorie und Praxis der Fachdidaktik(en)"

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker) & Götz, S. (Speaker)

21 Jan 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Laientehorien zum Lernen von Fremdsprachen im CLIL Unterricht

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

6 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Performances of the academic in secondary CLIL classrooms

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

11 Nov 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Language for learning – adacemic language functions in CLIL

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

24 Oct 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL as a means to develop pluriliteracies: learners' and teachers' perceptions.

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Contributor)

25 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Explaining: a central discourse function in instruction

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Keynote speaker)

28 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A response and comments on the project groups’s proposals regarding subject literacies

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

24 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bildungssprachliche Fähigkeiten im Ddiskurs des Sachfachunterrichts in der Fremdsprache.

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

26 Mar 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Foreign languages for technology-geeks: what students think about vocational CLIL

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

24 Oct 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL research - state of the art

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

25 Sept 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


English as a medium of instruction in European schools: analyzing classroom discourse

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Speaker)

29 Aug 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Fremdsprache als Medium des Wissenserwerbs im CLIL/EAA Unterricht

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

1 Jan 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Definieren - Hypothesen bilden: Kompetenzen für die Fremdsprache als Medium des Wissenserwerbs

Dalton-Puffer, C. (Invited speaker)

1 Oct 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of English and American Studies

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christiane.dalton-puffer@univie.ac.at