Rate My Professor Miriam Neigert

Dr. Miriam Neigert is Senior Lecturer in German Studies and Discipline Convenor in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of New England. She joined UNE in 2018 with over 15 years of teaching experience in adult and higher education in Germany and Australia. During her studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, she contributed to an e-learning team developing digital language materials in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and taught German online using chats, wikis, and SecondLife. Neigert holds a PhD from Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and Macquarie University Sydney via cotutelle, with a thesis on older language learners at community colleges in Germany. She also possesses an MA in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning for English, German, Arabic, and Islamic Studies from Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, and a Certificate for Professional Higher Education Teaching from the Hochschuldidaktisches Netzwerk, Gießen. Her research specializations include German Studies, TESOL, language learning and teaching focusing on assessment, digital media, online learning, and literature, individual learner differences such as age, self-concept, motivation, and neurodivergence, mixed methods in second language acquisition research, educational linguistics, adult education, higher education, and educational technology.