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Dr. Ann-Christin Leßmann is a Lecturer for special tasks at the University of Bielefeld within the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. She serves as the Custodian/Course Manager and Recognition Officer for Basic Language Education since 2021, and has been working at the university in this capacity since April 1, 2017. Her institutional affiliations include the Department of Subject Didactics and Cultural Education, the Department of Linguistics, and BiSEd (Bielefeld School of Education).
Her research focuses on conversation analysis, particularly ethnomethodological conversation analysis and videography. She specializes in classroom communication in primary schools and German lessons, examining how appropriateness and discursive requirements are established in classroom discussions. Her work connects text and conversation practices in institutional communication contexts, with specific attention to language didactics for German in primary education and student perspectives on classroom communication. She has also completed research on interaction and perception in online teaching from university lecturers' perspectives.
Dr. Leßmann's publication record shows consistent scholarly output from 2017 through 2025, with recent work increasingly focusing on the intersection of digital environments and educational practices. Her research demonstrates a strong methodological commitment to detailed sequential analysis of classroom interactions, particularly regarding how teachers and students co-construct discursive appropriateness.
She is a founding member of the Working Group on Conversation Analysis in Teacher Education (AK GeLb) and a member of the Symposium on German Didactics (SDD), indicating active participation in professional academic communities.
Dr. Leßmann completed her doctorate at TU Dortmund in November 2017, with her dissertation published in 2020 as 'Classroom Interaction in Elementary Schools: Sequential Analyses of the Co-Construction of Appropriateness between Teachers and Learners.' Prior to her position at Bielefeld, she worked as a research assistant at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2014-2016) and was a doctoral scholarship holder at the Research School Education and Capabilities at TU Dortmund (2011-2013).
