Smieja, Birgit

Birgit Smieja lectures at the Landau Campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau, where she teaches applied linguistics as well as practical language courses, cultural studies, and educational theory for primary school teachers. Her study on language attitudes and language use in Botswana, published by Peter Lang in 2003, has placed her at the cutting edge of our academic consciousness of the interface between language and education. She has spoken to international academic audiences in Belgium, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Tanzania, and has published in scholarly journals on a variety o...