Adelheid Hu is professor of Education and specializes in Foreign/Second Language Education, Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies. She graduated in German and French Philology, Chinese Studies and Applied Linguistics at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany and began her professional career as a teacher in a German senior high school and then as lecturer of German at Tunghai University in Taiwan (1984-89). She returned to Germany for a PhD funded by the German Research Foundation ( DFG) in the doctoral school (Graduiertenkolleg) at the University of Giessen (1991-94) and a post-doc at the RU-Bochum (1996-2001). In 2001 she was appointed Associate Professor (C3) and in 2008 Full Professor (W3) of Foreign/Second Language Pedagogy at the University of Hamburg before she moved to Luxembourg in 2011. Didaktik des Fremdverstehens (Pedagogy of Intercultural Understanding)
Adelheid Hu’s main research interests include
- Educational and sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism in school and Higher Education;
- Language curriculum planning and policies,
- Sociocultural approaches to language learning,
- Migration-based multilingualism,
- Language teacher education,
- Cross-cultural studies on language learning.
Functions at Uni.lu:
Since 01/2016: Coordinator (PI) of the Doctoral Training Unit CALIDIE
Since 03/2016: Scientific Director of the University of Luxembourg Language Center (LLC)
Since 02/2014: Elected member of the University Council
Since 02/2018: Member and representative of the UL in the steering board of the Confucius Institute at Uni.lu
07/2014-12/2017: Head of the Research Priority in Education: Focusing on Multilingualism and Diversity
12/2013-06/2017: Member of the Faculty Council of FLSHASE
12/2013-06/2017: Head of the Research Unit ECCS (Education, Culture, Cognition and Society)
06/2013-12/2013: Head of the Institute for Research on Multilingualism, University of Luxembourg
01/2012-12/2013: Study director of the MA Programme “Communication and Learning in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts” (University of Luxembourg)
