Franziska
Lys
Associate
Professor
2-101 Crowe Hall
1860 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2203
847-491-8298
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences • Northwestern University
Franziska Lys is Associate Professor of German in the Department of German (B.A. and M.A. from the University of Rochester; Ph.D. in Linguistics from Northwestern University).Professor Lys’ research is concerned with the application and evaluation the effectiveness of media-related and technological innovations to improve the learning of foreign languages. Since 1987 Dr. Lys has been collaborating with Dr. William Anthony on the production of various educational documentaries. They have produced and directed Drehort: Neubrandenburg (On location in Neubrandenburg; 1991) a video about the lives of the people in a former East German town, AZUBI (Three Apprentices in Berlin, 1994) a video about the apprenticeship system in Germany, Drehort Bern, Gesichter einer Stadt (On location in Bern, faces of a city; 1997) a documentary about people in the city of Berne, Switzerland, and Drehort: Neubrandenburg 2002 (On location in Neubrandenburg; 2004) documenting the lives of the people filmed in the original video in 1991. Professor Lys has been developing and testing, among others, multi-media language software using her own documentary materials. She has developed Drehort: Neubrandenburg Interaktiv and Azubi: Interaktiv, both CD-ROM applications. She redesinged Neubrandenburg Interaktiv as an interactive online learning environment. Dr. Lys has published a wide variety of material that concerns the problem of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language instruction in volumes such as Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education: Principles and Practices, Body and Language Intercultural Learning Through Drama, Schnittstellen: Lehrwerke zwischen alten und neuen Medien, Computer Enhanced Learning: Vignettes of the Best Practice from America's Most Wired Campuses, Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, Technology for Language Learning: Faculty authored Libra Courseware, and in the following journals: "CALICO", "Die Unterrichtspraxis", "IDV-Magazine", and "GFL-Journal".
