Natascha Drachmann is affiliated with the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen as guest researcher.

She holds a PhD within the field of language didactics and language pedagogy with a special focus on language subjects in primary and lower secondary education based on her PhD thesis entitled: Language Awareness in the Context of Plurilingual Education - A Curriculum and Multiple-Case Study across Language Subjects and Grades in the Danish Primary and Lower Secondary School. The PhD project was granted by The National PhD Council for Educational Research Denmark and The Independent Research Fund Denmark in the period 2020-2023 and was an independent sub-project in the research and development project Plurilingual Education - Minority and Majority Students' Language Awareness across Educational Levels (PE-LAL, www.plurilingualeducation.ku.dk).  

In addition to her academic position, Natascha develops teaching materials for language subjects in primary and lower secondary school in collaboration with the publishing house Alinea.

Previously, Natascha was part of the research and development project Learning Foreign Languages from An Early Age - A New Approach with Emphasis on Plurilingualism (www.tidligeresprogstart.ku.dk) in which she was responsible for implementing plurilingual education in the developed teaching materials for English (grade 1) and French and German (grade 5). Also, she has experiences from the field of practice as she has worked as a language teacher at lower and upper secondary education teaching Danish and German. Also, she has taught the three-months preparatory cross-curricular course Almen Sprogforståelse ('General Language Awareness') in upper secondary as well as Danish as second language at the teacher education.

Positions

2024-                         Associate lecturer, Slotshaven Gymnasium

2023-2024:               Research assistent, Department of English,
                                  Germanic and Romance Studies, University of
                                  Copenhagen

2022-                        Author, publishing house Alinea

2020-2023:               PhD Fellow, Department of English, Germanic and
                                  Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

2020-2023:               PhD Fellow, University College Absalon

2018-2019:               Assistant lecturer, Kalundborg Gymnasium & HF

2017-2018:               Research assistent, Department of Cross-Cultural
                                  and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

2016-2017:               Student assistent, Department of Cross-Cultural
                                  and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

2015-2016:               Teacher, Holbæk By Skole, Afd. Absalon

Education

2024                         PhD in language didactics and language
                                   pedagogy, University of Copenhagen

2017                          Master in German and Danish, University of
                                   Copenhagen

2015                          Bachelor in German and Danish, University of
                                   Copenhagen

Participation in research projects

2020-                         Plurilingual Education - Minority and Majority
                                   Students' Language Awareness across
                                   Educational Levels 
                                   (www.plurilingualeducation.ku.dk)

2016-2018:                 Tidligere Sprogstart - Ny begynderdidaktik med
                                    fokus på flersprogethed
                                    (www.tidligeresprogstart.ku.dk)

• Language didactics and pedagogy in L1, L2, and L3 of schooling
• Plurilingual education
• Language awareness
• Grammar teaching
• Collaboration between language subjects
• Language subjects in primary and secondary education
• Teacher education

• Language didactics and pedagogy
• Plurilingual education
• Language awareness
• Danish as Second Language