Dr. Laura Loder-Büchel

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About

Laura Loder-Büchel has been a teacher trainer at the Zurich University of Teacher Education in Switzerland for the past 20 years and is on the editorial board of Babylonia (Swiss journal of language education). Her current research interests are social justice in language teaching as well as assessment policies and practices. She received her BA from La Salle University in Pennsylvania, her M.Ed. from Northern Arizona University and her PhD from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. If you are interested in her publications, you can see the list here.

Projects

Teaching (training)

Observe, assess, support with focus on German (language) (BE.P322)
Final exam: English (DPR.EN)
ELT Coaching and Classroom Research (EN.Q711)
English – IKB (EN.P950)
English (language) education 2 (EN.P300)
English (language) education 3 (EN.P350)
English for Everyone – Everywhere! (EN.P740)
Subject teaching 1: FRE, BS, BG, DT, MK, RKE (FD.B151)
Foreign language education 2 (FRE.B251)
Generative AI as a tool in the classroom (WA.P781)
Mentoring plus 4: Practical relevance with visit (EN.B255)
English: Teaching practice with supervision (EN.B420)
Final exam part 1: English (TPP.EN.P150)
Final exam part 2: English (TPP.EN.P350)

Teaching (continuing education)

English «Didactics» Refresher and Language Booster! (142601.01)

Further information

Language Education

  • Questioning Assumptions in Language Education. 31. Januar 2024

    Podcast.

    University of Fribourg

  • SMILE: Swiss Museums in Language Education. 7. Juni 2023

    CeDiLE

  • Testy about Testing! Why Teachers should NOT use Vocab Translation Tests. 11. Januar 2022

    Fachgruppe Fremdsprachen.

    Kanton Zug

  • Unpacking the Messages we Send our Learners in (primary) ELT. 20. November 2021

    TESOL France

  • Getting Testy about Tests! Using Tests for Learning. 14. Juli 2021

    Network of English Teacher Researchers in Uzbekistan

  • Companion Volume (CV) CEFR (Zusätze GER) und Umsetzung in der Aus- und Weiterbildung an den Pädagogischen Hochschulen am Beispiel der PH Zürich. 17. Juni 2021

  • Through the Anti-bias Looking Glass: The Messages we Send our Learners in ELT. 12. Mai 2021

    Universität Bamberg

  • Creative Tasks in ELT. 28. April 2021

    INW21 Conference-Intercultural Week.

    Universidad de Cádiz

  • The Forum Experience: Tips for Publishing in «English Teaching Forum». 27. März 2021

    TESOL International Conference.

  • Vers un corps enseignant trilingue ? Les compétences professionnelles et linguistiques des enseignant-e-s à l’école obligatoire. 30. November 2020

    University of Fribourg

  • Creative Tasks in Elementary School EFL Classrooms in Switzerland. 19. November 2020

    TESOL Conference France.

  • Fremdsprachen in der Primarschule: Was sie sind, was nicht. 4. Februar 2020

    Schule Regensberg

  • Where primary and secondary meet: trends, room for improvement and questions from the field. 6. Juli 2019

    First Swiss Teacher Training Day.

  • All Groups are Mixed! 22. Mai 2019

    Are «advanced» German language learners disadvantaged in mixed ability classes?

    Zurich International School

  • CLILling me Softly … with Slime? 8. Mai 2019

    HEP Fribourg

  • Developments, questions about and room for improvement in English Language Teaching (ELT) in Switzerland (and elsewhere)! 17. April 2018

    Direction de l’instruction publique, de la culture et du sport, Fribourg

  • Best Practice EFL Assessment Examples from Switzerland (Primary School). 1. Januar 2017

    ETEN Conference.

    Göteborg

  • Standards-based Grading in the English Language Classroom. 1. Januar 2017

    Ringvorlesung.

    Universität Fribourg

  • Tech Savvy English Language teaching. 1. Januar 2016

    PH Zürich

  • Association between young learners’ English language performance and teacher proficiency and experience with English at the Classroom-oriented research. 1. Januar 2015

    Towards Effective Learning and Teaching Conference.

    Konin

  • Embodiment and what it means for language teachers. 1. Januar 2015

    LSI Language School

  • Grooving, Proving and Improving in the English Language Classroom at the Classroom-oriented research. 1. Januar 2015

    Towards Effective Learning and Teaching Conference.

    Zürich

  • Non-native, motivated! 1. Januar 2015

    ATEE Conference.

    Glasgow

  • Groove, Prove and Improve: Englischunterricht at your Fingertips! 1. Januar 2014

    UNM-Tagung.

    PH Zürich

  • Practicable Theories – why we play the vocabulary games we do! 1. Januar 2013

    Association of Vocational Teachers.

    Schloss Au

  • Non-Native English Speaker Accents in Swiss Elementary Schools: A Summary of Pre-Service Teacher Research. 1. Januar 2012

    ELF Conference.

    Boğaziçi University

  • Supporting the mother tongue in teaching another one. 1. Januar 2009

    ELBE im (frühen) Fremdsprachenunterricht Tagung.

  • An Example of Trilingual Teaching at the PHSH. 1. Januar 2005

    4th International Conference on 3rd Language Acquisition and Multilingualism.

    Fribourg

  • Multicultural internet lessons: create and go. 1. Januar 2000

    Learn in Beauty Conference.

    Northern Arizona Unviersity

  • Arizona Educational Research Organization. Rural Multicultural Programs: Successes and Challenges for the Future. 1. Januar 1999

  • Delivering Field-Based Multicultural Teacher Training in Rural Arizona. 1. Januar 1999

    Northern Arizona Reading Council