Bernd Klewitz

Bernd Klewitz, Dr. habil., is an educational psychologist, whose work focuses on science-oriented teaching and learning English as a foreign language in different contexts. Having spent a decade in English-speaking countries such as Australia, the UK, and the USA, he now works as a lecturer.
He trained as a grammar school teacher and gained his PhD in Oral History at the Philipps-University Marburg. As an advisor and regional coordinator for the Hessian Ministry of Education in Wiesbaden, he supported the introduction of the Language Core Curriculum and advised school principals implementing competence-oriented teaching strategies. For the last four years he has been conducting seminars about Scaffolding and CLIL at the Universities of Göttingen and Jena.
Klewitz has published widely known practice-oriented textbooks and manuals that focus on authentic language learning with a major emphasis on Instructional Scaffolding. In his most recent publication, he advocates literature as an independent subject of bilingual language teaching and learning (Literary CLIL: Literature in the Bilingual Classroom, Herne 2020).