Dr. Rothe's work—at the intersection of mixed-methods research in German Studies, Applied Linguistics, and Education—explores (stereotypical) perceptions of communities, approaches to engaging language programming, and teacher training frameworks.

In his previous publications, for instance, he investigated language learners’ and educators’ (stereotypical) perceptions of themselves and other world language speakers, including native speakers and teachers of German. As a Faculty Fellow of the Teaching Innovation Learning Lab at the University of Louisville, he recently developed a long-term virtual reality project that provided an equitable pathway for students to immerse themselves in the diversity of contemporary Germany. 

His publications on diversifying curricula earned him the 2024 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article about “teaching techniques to have appeared in a professional journal during the preceding year."

Refereed Journal Articles

Rothe, L. & Snyder, C. K. (2024). Using Bloom’s taxonomy to visualise antiracist teaching strategies. Whiteness and Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2024.2414217

Rothe, L. (2024). An analysis of reviews related to grammar teaching and learning in Die

Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German (2000-2023). Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 57(2), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12291

Ojeh, K. S., Mott, C., Poole, M., Rothe, L., & Snyder, C. K. (2024). The anti-racist origins of critical community-engaged scholarship. Phylon: The Clark Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, 61(1), 3–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27315732

Rothe, L. & Gabbard, J. (2023). Creating diverse and engaging world language communities with(out) textbooks. Second Language Research & Practice, 4(1), 128–140. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/69883

Rothe, L. (2023). (Im-)Plausible classroom communities: World language learners’ perceived accuracy of stereotypical attributions to teachers of German. Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2023.2168670

Rothe, L. (2023). Representations of diversity in a novice-level language classroom and beyond: An engaging semester project. NECTFL Review, 90, 11–30. https://www.nectfl.org/?ddownload=4897

Rothe, L., Tsui, C. K., García, P. A., & McCloskey, M. B. (2023). Creating safe spaces: Diverse instructional materials for world language learners. NECTFL Review, 90, 57–79. https://www.nectfl.org/?ddownload=4897*

* Recipient of the 2024 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Rothe, L. (2022). “Analytical,” “angry,” and “(too) honest”?! Learners’ stereotypes about teachers of German. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 55(2), 151–169. http://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12207

* Recognized as a top-downloaded article in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German in 2023.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Rothe, L. (2023). The benefits of community in the face of disaster: Struggling to success. In B. Yazan, E.

T. Trinh, & L. J. P. Herrera (Eds.), Doctoral students’ identities and emotional wellbeing in applied linguistics: Autoethnographic accounts (pp. 214–228). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305934-17