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Dr. JÖRG MATTHIAS ROCHE is professor at the Institute of German as a Foreign Language, Director of the Deutsch-Uni Online, the Multimedia Research and Development Lab and the International Research Centre Chamisso-Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. He also holds an adjunct position at the German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan. He works in the areas of intercultural communication, second language acquisition, second language didactics and computer-enhanced language learning and teaching.

His latest books include Mehrsprachigkeitstheorie on multilingualism (Gunter Narr Verlag 2013), Focus on Handlung, a study of a task-based approach to language learning (Lit-Verlag 2012, with J. Reher and M. Simic), Handbuch Mediendidaktik – Fremdsprachen, a handbook on computer-enhanced language learning (hueber 2008), the introduction to second language acquisition and teaching Fremdsprachenerwerb – Fremdsprachendidaktik (UTB 2005, 2008, 2013), and several edited books on transcultural communication as well as media-based learning and teaching. A contribution to the Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics entitled Language Acquisition and Pedagogy is in press (ed. Taylor, John/Littlemore, Jeanette). Jörg Roche has also authored and produced numerous CD-ROMs and online programs for the teaching and learning of various languages including German, English, Japanese, French and Brazilian.