Claudia Müller-Brauers

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Brauers is a Professor of Inclusive German Didactics at the Institute for Special Education (IFS) within the Faculty of Philosophy at Leibniz University Hannover. She maintains an active academic presence with office located at Schloßwender Straße 1, 30159 Hannover (Building 1211, Room 013), offering office hours by appointment via Stud.IP.

Dr. Müller-Brauers earned her doctorate in 2012 from TU Dortmund with research on "Children's narrative skills and (written) language socialization influences in the family." Her academic journey includes doctoral scholarship support from 2008-2011 through the Research School Education and Capabilities at TU Dortmund, following her First State Examination for Primary and Secondary School Teaching completed at PH Freiburg in 2004.

Her research program focuses on inclusive language education approaches, with particular emphasis on how picture books (both analog and digital) can support literacy development across diverse learning environments. She investigates dialogic reading practices, early literacy acquisition mechanisms, implicit grammar support strategies, child language socialization patterns, and narrative understanding processes. Her work consistently bridges theoretical linguistics with practical classroom applications, emphasizing inclusive methodologies that accommodate heterogeneous learning groups.

Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong trajectory toward digital picture book applications and their potential for language development. Her research examines how interactive features of digital media can be leveraged for dialogic reading with multilingual children, how input-optimized picture books can stimulate grammatical development, and how narrative comprehension processes unfold during reading interactions. Her work consistently connects theoretical insights with practical educational applications, particularly in early childhood and elementary school contexts.

• Principal Investigator for the Litkey Project funded by Volkswagen Foundation
• Lead researcher for the ADIL (Adaptive Dialogic Reading with Multilingual Children) project
• Organizer of the Litkey-Abschlusstagung in Witten (2022)
• Co-organizer of the "Workshop on early literacy and (digital) media" at Paderborn University (2017)

Her teaching for the summer semester of 2025 includes courses on initial reading and writing instruction, promoting literacy in school contexts, children's and young adult literature, research colloquium, cross-media literacy promotion, and supervision of the ADIL internship program. She also leads the "Picture Book Practice Forum" connected to the "Speech Lab Language – Interaction – Participation," which explores the potential of analog and digital picture books for inclusive learning settings in daycare centers and elementary schools.