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 15:00-16:30
from 12 March: Tuesdays 15:00-16:30

During weeks where I am unavailable on the designated day, online office hour by appointment (send me an e-mail).

Out of office: 15 Feb, 7 March, 30 April, 21 May


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

Summer term 2024
120003 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
122051 PS PS Linguistics (BEd) - Lexicogrammar
Winter term 2023
120001 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
120002 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
120004 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Classroom based research in L2 teaching and learning
120014 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Linguistics
Hüttner, J., & Dalton-Puffer, C. (Eds.) (Accepted/In press). Building disciplinary literacies in Content and Language Integrated Learning. Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education


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..



Dalton-Puffer, C., Hüttner, J., & Nikula, T. (Accepted/In press). Introduction: The conceptualisation of subject-specific literacies in CLIL. In Building Disciplinary Literacies in Content and Language Integrated Learning Routledge. Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education

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., & 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). Multilingual Matters Ltd..

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. (2017). Discourse analysis and CLIL. In A. Llinares, T. Morton, A. McCabe, & R. Whittaker (Eds.), Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL (pp. 167-181). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Language learning & language teaching


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

Tatjana Bacovsky (Speaker), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker), Julia Hüttner (Speaker), Dorine Rakaj (Speaker), Rezarta Ramadani (Speaker), Karen Schramm (Speaker) & Sejdi Sejdiu (Speaker)

13 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Research and development pathways in Content and Language Integrated Learning

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker) & Natalia Evnitskaya (Speaker)

17 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


ADiBE. CLIL for all? The Austrian perspective

Tatjana Bacovsky (Speaker), Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger (Speaker), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker), Helen Heaney (Speaker), Lena Katzinger (Speaker) & Ute Smit (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

Natalia Evnitskaya (Speaker) & Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

17 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Symposium 13 : Building Disciplinary Literacies: Introduction

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker) & Julia Hüttner (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

Natalia Evnitskaya (Speaker) & Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

3 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Session 4 ADiBE Video Guides

Ute Smit (Invited speaker), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker), Frauke Matz (Speaker) & Dominik Rumlich (Speaker)

19 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

19 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From innovation to normality: moving CLIL into the mainstream

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker), Julia Hüttner (Keynote speaker) & Ute Smit (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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?

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

3 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Zur Modellierung von bildungssprachlichen Kompetenzen in CLIL

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker)

9 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Academic language competences – the level of discourse functions

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

9 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker)

8 Sep 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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker) & Natalia Evnitskaya (Speaker)

30 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Layers of language support in EMI contexts

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger (Speaker) & Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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?

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

3 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Policy and practice of CLIL in Austria

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

18 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

19 Jan 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen und Historische Kompetenzen im CLIL Unterricht

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

18 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen und Historische Kompetenzen im CLIL Unterricht

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker) & Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger (Speaker)

18 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Identifying joint concerns in content and language pedagogies

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker) & Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger (Contributor)

17 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kognitive Diskursfunktionen und naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenzen: Wege zu einer integrierten Didaktik

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

20 Nov 201521 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

10 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

18 Sep 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Contributor)

10 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Corpus Linguistics in Language Teacher Education

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

8 May 20159 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Researching Classroom Discourse

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

23 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Policy and practice of CLIL in Europe and beyond

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

22 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Policy and practice of CLIL in Europe and beyond

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

21 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


English as a Medium of Instruction in Multilingual University Settings

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

20 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Corpus Linguistics in language teacher education

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker)

26 Sep 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Thomas Wagner (Speaker), Monika Boniecki (Contributor), Ulrike Podar (Contributor) & Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Contributor)

5 Sep 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Policy Perspectives – Transnational initiatives in Europe

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

12 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

12 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cognitive discourse functions and subject competences

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

Jun 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zum Verhältnis Fach und Fachdidaktik in den Sprachfächern

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker)

8 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

3 Oct 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Cognitive discourse functions in CLIL classroom talk

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker)

6 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL 2.0: Literacies through CLIL

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Contributor)

24 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL in Austria: implementation & research

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

15 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Keynote speaker)

10 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

30 Apr 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

10 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Policy and implementation of CLIL in Austria

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

3 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cognitive language functions in English medium instruction

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

2 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Academic language functions in the CONCLIL project

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

21 Oct 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Research on CLIL - State of the art

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

21 Apr 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

18 Apr 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Teachers‘ evaluative practices in content and langauge integrated classrooms

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

25 Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Conceptualising CALP as academic discourse

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

2 Feb 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Selected presenter)

5 Sep 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forschungsplattform "Theorie und Praxis der Fachdidaktik(en)"

Stefan Götz (Speaker) & Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

3 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Forschungsplattform "Theorie und Praxis der Fachdidaktik(en)"

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

3 Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kompetenzorientierung und Bildungsstandards im bilingualen Unterricht. Impulsreferat.

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

18 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Selected presenter)

18 Feb 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A CLIL Module during initial teacher education

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

2 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forschungsplattform der Universität Wien. Theory and Practice of Subject Didactics

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

25 Sep 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Teacher education for content and language integrated learning

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

24 Sep 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Explaining as content and language integration

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

11 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

8 Mar 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Forschungsplattform "Theorie und Praxis der Fachdidaktik(en)"

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker) & Stefan Götz (Speaker)

21 Jan 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Laientehorien zum Lernen von Fremdsprachen im CLIL Unterricht

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

6 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Performances of the academic in secondary CLIL classrooms

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

11 Nov 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Language for learning – adacemic language functions in CLIL

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

24 Oct 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Contributor)

25 Sep 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Explaining: a central discourse function in instruction

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

24 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bildungssprachliche Fähigkeiten im Ddiskurs des Sachfachunterrichts in der Fremdsprache.

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

26 Mar 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

24 Oct 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


CLIL research - state of the art

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

25 Sep 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker)

29 Aug 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Fremdsprache als Medium des Wissenserwerbs im CLIL/EAA Unterricht

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

1 Jan 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Invited speaker)

1 Oct 2005

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Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O1-21

T: +43-1-4277-42443

christiane.dalton-puffer@univie.ac.at