Thomas Jochum-Critchley
Senior Lecturer in German

Teaching

Undergraduate

Semester 1

• Plurilingualism, multilingualism and transnational languages: concepts, strategies & approaches (Module convenor)
• German Language and Cultures: Proficient (Module convenor)

Semester 2

• Contemporary German speaking film (Module convenor)
• Understanding German-speaking cultures & societies

External activities

Memberships

• FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• FLAME - Film and Media in Education
• ÖSD - Österreichisches Sprachdiplom Deutsch (Qualified examiner)
• Approved UNILANG examiner

External examining

• London School of Economics
  UG German modules (2022-2026)
• University of Newcastle
  University Wide Language Programme (2022-2026)
• University of Keele
  Language Centre (2021-2025)
• University of Nottingham
  Language Centre - UK, China & Malaysia campus (2018-2022)
• King's College London
  Modern Language Centre (2017 - 2021)

Invited talks and conferences

• Session co-chair: Sektion C.3 (Innovative) Konzepte des Deutschlernens an Hochschulen weltweit. IDT 2025, 18. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer 28. 07. – 01. 08. 2025. Lübeck, Germany.
• Plenary talk: "Déjà-vu or game changer? Language education and (generative) AI: affordances, challenges, and opportunities". Conference: Translation and Language Education in the Age of AI: Theoretical and Practical Frameworks. University of Manchester, 25. April 2025
• Presentation (with Elisabeth Wallmann): Promoting Plurilingualism and Multilingualism in the Anglosphere: A Practical Example. CERCLES 2024 Conference. Durham, 13-15 September 2024
• Presentation: Developing Plurilingual Pedagogies in Languages Programmes: Concepts, Principles and a Practical Example. AULC conference 2023: Language for All in Higher Education: Inclusion, Diversity, and Sustainability. Edinburgh, 27-28 April 2023
• Keynote: Machine translation literacy and language education: teaching, learning and using languages in the digital age. Online Workshop Digitales Lernen und die Bewertung sprachlicher Leistungen im universitären DaF-Unterricht in Großbritannien. University of Liverpool: Centre for Teaching Excellence in Language Learning, 20/1/2023
• Presentation: Raus aus dem Seminarraum – rein ins Leben: Authentische Projekte zum Thema Film im integrierten DaF-Unterricht vor, während und nach der Pandemie. IDT 2022 Wien, 15/8/2022
• Presentation: Assessing language proficiency in the digital age: principles, challenges and solutions.” AULC conference 2022: Envisage the Future: Reshaping Language Teaching and Learning. Nottingham, 25-27 April 2022
• Presentation: Was bedeutet Sprachkompetenz in einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt. Online-Workshop Digitales Lernen und Unterrichten im universitären DaF-Unterricht in Großbritannien. University of Nottingham, 8/9/2021
• Presentation: Leaving the Ivory Tower: Public engagement through authentic projects on German speaking film – before, during and after the pandemic. Annual AGS conference 2021. Online University of Swansea, 2/9/2021
• Presentation: Language education as public engagement: designing authentic projects on German film. InnoConf 2020. Online University of Newcastle, 18/9/2020
• Presentation: Impact teaching: language, film and media education in the 21st century. Transmedia in Education International Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 28/6/2019
• Presentation: Taking language and culture beyond the classroom. UK LINGUA 2019: Culture in the Language Classroom, University of Durham, 27/4/2019
• Presentation (with Nadine Saupe): Developing multi/intercultural learning abroad through ethnography.” Year Abroad Conference, University of Newcastle, 14/9/2018
• Presentation: Rethinking the Curricular and Extra-curricular Divide. ECAs 2018, University of Manchester, 1/6/2018
• Presentation (with Nadine Saupe): Developing multi/cultural learning through ethnography.” 3rd Languages in a Globalised World Conference, Leeds Beckett University, 23-24/5/2018
• Presentation (with Maria Muradas-Casas & Raffaele Zanotti): Joining researchers and practitioners. The Language Teaching Forum @ York. AULC Professional Development SIG Meeting, University of Reading, 185/2018
• Online presentation: Grammatiktraining am Handy. DaFWEBKON 2018, 3/3/2018. Available at: http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/pe00x2q6v5vp/ (Accessed: 09/3/2018)
• Presentation: Squaring the circle: Developing accuracy and fluency through recorded speaking tasks. University of Leeds Language Learning and Teaching Conference: Developing Speaking Skills. Leeds, 16/9/2017
• Presentation: Deutsche Grammatik am Handy. IDT 2017, Freiburg (CH), 2/8/2017
• Session chair: Innovative Language Teaching and Learning conference 2016, University of York, 17/6/2016
• Presentation: Smart phones for German grammar learning and teaching. Using Fim and Media in the Language Classroom: Research-Led Teaching. Manchester Metropolitan University, 25/7/2015
• Presentation (with Cinzia Bacilieri, Maria Muradas-Taylor, Nadine Saupe): Diversity and mixed ability at modular and programme level. Supporting Ab Initio language students' transitions. University of York Learning and Teaching Conference 2015, 10/6/2015
• Presentation (with Cinzia Bacilieri & Dan Li): From teaching practice to SLA. Questions arising from grammar teaching and learning within a communicative framework. NISSLL workshop, University of York, 26/4/2014
• Presentation: Autonomous Blended Learning. Ein autonomes Sprachlernportfolio im Spannungsfeld von Individualisierung und Standardisierung. IDT 2013 Bozen, July 2013
• Workshop (co-organisation): HEA workshop "Digital media in the modern language classroom", Aston University, Jan 2013
• Presentation: Back to the future. Autonomous Language Learning Reloaded. Language Futures, Language in Higher Education Conference, Edinburgh, July 2012

Business engagement

• PTI Education Ltd: Lecture on “Plurilingualism in education: unlocking language learners’ potential for communication”. MFL Enrichment Residential. 13-15 July 2024, University of York.
• National Centre for Excellence in Language Pedagogy (NCELP): Audio recordings (2019-2023)
• Department for Education (DfE): Quality assurance services for review of subject content of GCSE Modern Foreign Languages. (2019)
• Ofqal: CEFR consultant for study on GCSE MFL Standards (2018)

Publications

Selected publications

• Jochum-Critchley, T. (In print). Öffentliche Filmvorführungen auf Deutsch: "authentische Projektarbeit“ an einer britischen Universität. In: Baumbach, Stefan; Siebold, Kathrin; Thaller, Florian & Voerkel, Paul (Hg.): Projektarbeit in Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache: Theoretische Verortung und innovative Ansätze in empirischer Forschung und unterrichtlicher Praxis. Göttingen, Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
• Jochum-Critchley, T. (2024). Squaring the Circle: Developing Accuracy and Fluency in Speaking. In B. Hermoso-Gomez, S. Martinho and C. La Sala (Eds.), New Trends in the Learning and Teaching of Second Language Speaking Skills in Higher Education (pp. 113-132). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Jochum-Critchley, T. (2022). Language education as public engagement: designing authentic projects on German-speaking film.  In C. Hampton & S. Salin (Eds), Innovative language teaching and learning at university: facilitating transition from and to higher education (pp. 45-55). Research-publishing.net. 2022, https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.56.1372.
• Jochum-Critchley, T. (2022). Developing learner autonomy in German ab initio programmes. In U. Bavendiek, S. Mentchen, C. Mossmann, & D. Paulus (Eds.), Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education. The Case of German. UCL Press. 2022, 183-192.
• Jochum-Critchley, T. (2011). With Piroska Lorinczi, Hamish Gillespie: LTC8 2011 review in: Student Education Bulletin. Issue 1 (http://www.lts.leeds.ac.uk/Student_Education_Bulletin/SEB_index.php?PAGE=137&SUBPAGE=138.
• Jochum-Critchley, T. (2009). Österreichische Filmgeschichte als interkulturelles Experiment. In: Magali Laure Nieradka, Denise Sprecht (eds.): Fremdkörper? Aspekte der Geisteswissenschaften in der Auslandsgermanistik und im DaF-Unterricht. Berlin, Münster: LIT,153-171.
• Jochum-Critchley, T. (2004). Von der Produktivität der Fremderfahrung. Betrachtungen über das Lehren und Lernen an französischen Universitäten. In: Theorie und Praxis. Österreichische Beiträge zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Nr.8, 185-196.