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Bio

Ulf Schütze is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the School of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Victoria in Canada. He has over 25 years of research and teaching expertise with stops at five universities in Europe, North America, and Oceania. His research in the areas of technology assisted language learning as well as on the relationship of language to culture has been widely published.

Courses

• SLLC 250 - Second Language Acquisition and Technology
• GMST 108 - Introduction to Translating German Texts  
• GMST 201 - Intermediate German 
• GMST 301 - Advanced German 

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Schuetze, U. (2018). Practicing grammar online: Multiple choice vs Fill-in-the-blank. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 15(1), 55-65.

Schuetze, U. (2015). Spacing techniques in second language vocabulary acquisition: Short-term gains vs long-term memory. Language, Teaching, Research, 19(1), 28-42.

Schuetze, U. & Weimer-Stuckmann, G. (2011). Retention in SLA Processing. CALICO Journal, 28(2), 460-472.

Schuetze, U. (2010). Motivation to write online: Chats and Forums. German as a Foreign Language, 1,  3-24.

Schuetze, U. (2008). Exchanging second language messages online: developing an intercultural communicative competence? Foreign Language Annals, 41(4), 658-671.

Book chapters

Schuetze, U. (2018). Supporting your brain learning words. In P. Ecke & S. Rott (Eds.), Understanding Vocabulary Learning and Teaching: Implications for Language Program Development. Boston: Cengage, 28-37.

Schuetze, U. (2007). Assessing intercultural dialogue: The German ‘Wald’ and the Canadian ‘forest’. In D. Palfreyman & D. McBride (Eds.), Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 213-228.

Selected Presentations/Talks

Invited

“AI Chatbot vs AI Agent: Differences, Developments, Data.” Invited lecture at Université Catholiquè Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium, Feb 2024.

“Rehearsed, Recalled, Rewired: New insights into Second Language Vocabulary Learning.” Invited lecture at the University of California, Davis, CA, Feb 2020.

“Kommunikation am zukünftigen Arbeitsplatz.” [Communication at the workplace in spe] Invited lecture at the TU Berlin in Berlin, Germany, May 2013.

“Zur Nachhaltigkeit des Einsatzes Neuer Medien im Fremdsprachenunterricht.” [The question of sustainability when using New Media in Foreign Language Teaching] Invited lecture at the Goethe Institut in Seoul, South Korea, May 2010.

“Do your really want to connect Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, SLA, and IT?” Invited Lecture at the Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, December 2009.

Conferences (past 12 years)

“The ups and downs of learner-chatbot dialogues.” Paper presented at the annual CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) conference in Pittsburgh, PA, May 2024.

“Speaking to an AI chatbot as a foreign language learner: A pedagogical perspective.” TSLL (Teaching for Second Language Learning) conference at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IL, Nov 2023.

“Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Attention.” Paper presented at the annual CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) conference in Seattle, WA, May 2022.

“Virtual Reality – the future of language learning?” Paper presented at ACLA/CAAL (Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics) conference in Vancouver, BC, June 2019.

“An online grammar toolbar.” Paper presented at INKE in Whistler, BC, Jan 2016.

“Learning from native speakers: with or without technology?” Paper presented at the Research in CALL conference in Antwerp, Belgium, July 2014.

“Short- vs long-term memory: New insights from vocabulary studies.” Paper presented at the ACTFL (American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages) conference in Orlando, FL, November 2013.

“Exploring the effectiveness of web-based input enhancement in an intermediate German classroom.” Paper presented at the World CALL conference in Glasgow, Scotland, July 2013.

Current Research Projects/Information

Ulf Schütze is currently working on a project titled “Verbal and Non-verbal Behavior in New Spaces” with Dr. Haworth in Computer Science that is hosted in the Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Design and Games lab. The project aims to develop and test a new type of Ai conversational agent integrated into VR simulations for immigrants to practice every-day situations in ESL.