Kurt Kohn

Professor of Applied English Linguistics, University of Tübingen and director of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre Sprachlernmedien / Language Learning Media. Since the early 1990s, Kurt Kohn has been involved in European projects on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching, with a special focus on open content authoring in relation to learner and teacher autonomy, authentication and blended language learning. He is co-developer (with Petra Hoffstaedter) of the language learning and authoring software Telos Language Partner and has co-authored a large number of multimedia and web-based language learning packages mainly for English, French and German. His more recent EU project activities concern the design and exploitation of language corpora and web collaboration for language learning and teaching purposes.