Dr Andreas Jaeger

MA University Munich, PhD University of Bielefeld
DAAD Lecturer
Room 521, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

Phone: +61 2 9351 3116

In February 2006 Dr Andreas Jaeger began lecturing in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney and became the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) representative for Australia. The DAAD represents over 300 institutions of tertiary education in Germany. As Director of the DAAD Information Centre Sydney, Dr Jaeger, among other things, coordinates exchange programs and manages the DAAD scholarship program for Australia.

Dr Jaeger received his PhD in German as a Foreign Language (Linguistics / German as a Foreign Language) from the University of Bielefeld (Germany). He completed his MA degree in German as a Foreign Language, Germanic Linguistics and Romance Languages Linguistics at the University of Munich. Before coming to Australia he worked as the Deputy Director of a private language school in Germany. Dr Jaeger grew up in South Africa and the German Alps, two scenes which still have a great influence on him.

• German linguistics, comparative linguistics, applied linguistics
• Language policies, varieties in languages, language history, language contacts, language and culture
• German area studies, German culture studies (Landeskunde)
• Effective language teaching and learning, motivation, computer-assisted language teaching
• Lexicography

Dr Jaeger's current research concentrates on recent language policies in Australia, the history of Germanic Studies in Australia, on motivation and language learning as well as on varieties of German and their impact on Standard German.

In the area of German culture studies, Dr Jaeger is coordinating the project Shpoorenzoohe in Sydney together with Dr Sabine Jasny. This research project of students of the German Department connects 10 places, where traces of Australian-German links can be discovered, to a guided walk through Sydney's CBD.

Dr Jaeger's current political program is to enhance student, academic and research exchange between Australia and Germany and to advertise the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship programs.

infoDaf

• Jäger, Andreas/Jasny, Sabine (2007): Zur Lage der Germanistik in Australien. [German Studies in Australia] In: Info DaF 34, 5, S. 472-486.
• Jäger, Andreas (2007): Der Gebrauch des Präteritum-Perfekt-Paradigmas in der gesprochenen deutschen Sprache. Die Normen- und Varietätenproblematik im Fremdsprachenunterricht anhand eines ausgewählten Beispiels. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.
  [The usage of the preterite perfect paradigm in oral German. Problems with norms and varieties in foreign language teaching on the basis of a selected example.]
• Jäger, Andreas (1997): Varietäten im Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache-Unterricht. Standard Süd, Regionalsprache und deren Relevanz für den DaF-Unterricht in Bayern, zusammengefasst veröffentlicht in: Materialien Deutsch als Fremdsprache 45, 87-104. Regensburg 1997.
  [Varieties in teaching German as a foreign language. Southern Standard, regional language and their relevance for German classes in Bavaria.]

German Teaching material:

• Jasny, Sabine/Jäger, Andreas (1999): Stufen International, Bd. 1. Zusatzübungen. Stuttgart (Klett). [Vol. 1, Additional Exercise Book]
• Jasny, Sabine/Jäger, Andreas (1999): Stufen International, Bd. 2. Zusatzübungen. Stuttgart (Klett). [Vol. 2, Additional Exercise Book]
• Jasny, Sabine/Jäger, Andreas (1998): Stufen International, Bd. 2. Handbuch für den Unterricht. Stuttgart (Klett). [Vol. 2, Teachers’ Handbook]
• Jasny, Sabine/Jäger, Andreas (1997): Wirtschaftsdeutsch. Grundstufe. Zusatzübungen. Stuttgart u.a. (Klett). [Coursebook for Business German. Basic Level. Additional Exercises]

• FEAST Conference 2006 participation
• Gift of the Gab Conference 2006 participation
• Member of organising committee of the German Science Days at the University of Sydney 2007: GerMANY Innovations @ Sydney uni
• ALAA Conference 2007 participation and paper
• GSAA Conference 2007 participation and paper
• AIEC Conference (Australian Inyternational Education Conference) 2007 participation
• Member of ALAA organising committee for the Linguistics 'feast' at Sydney Uni (together with Newcastle Uni), 2008

• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) representative for Australia, Director of the DAAD Information Centre Sydney
• Member of FEAST (Forum for European–Australian Science and Technology Cooperation)
• Member of the German Language Society - Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache
• Member of ALAA - Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
• Member of GSAA - German Studies of Association of Australia
• Co-founder and Co-Director of Stadthörer Bodensee, Lindau, Germany - offering audio guided city tours around touristic centres: Bregenz, Constance, Lindau, Meersburg (all Lake Constance). It also produced guided tours for the city of Überlingen, a famous cloister in Constance and for a Salvador-Dali-Retrospective
• Member of GSAA (German Studies Association of Australia)