Margit Breckle is lecturer in German at Hanken School of Economics, Vaasa, Finland. Previous appointments include University of Vaasa, Finland, University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius, Lithuania (DAAD-lecturership), Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki (DAAD-lecturership) and University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Margit's doctoral research at University of Gothenburg investigated German-Swedish business communication. Her research interests include teaching research in German as a foreign language, language needs analyses, intercultural business communication and media linguistics.
Since 1996, I have taught German at university level predominantly in the Nordic and Baltic countries. My teaching experience includes German as a foreign language, communication in specialised contexts (business, tourism) in German, regional/cultural studies of the German-speaking countries (‘Landeskunde’), German linguistics, translation from Swedish and Finnish to German as well as academic writing and linguistic research methods.
I have taught German at Hanken School of Economics in Vaasa since 2018 and I serve as examiner for all the German courses at Hanken in Vaasa. Recent course development at Hanken School of Economics include the development of a COIL-course in German, Interkulturelles Online-Planspiel, which has been conducted in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark since 2020, as well as the development of the blended learning courses Deutsch I B: Leben und Arbeit, Deutsch II B: Karriere D, Wirtschaft in den Medien (Deutsch III B) and Deutsch im Unternehmen (Deutsch III B).
