Dr. Rachel Hall joined the TEFL department at the Institute of English and American Studies in April 2026 as an instructor and postdoctoral research assistant. She has been a teacher since 2002. She studied history at the University of Warwick and gained a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCE) in primary school education from the University of Cambridge, where she specialised in the teaching of literacy. Subsequently, she taught learners aged 7-11 in an independent school in Warwickshire before gaining a TEFL/TESOL certificate and coming to Germany. As a freelance English teacher in Stuttgart, she taught EFL classes for young people and adults, prepared candidates for English exams and was a speaking examiner. In 2018, she joined the Institute for English at the PH Ludwigsburg. From 2023-2026 she completed a PhD that focused on developing young learners' oral skills through the dramatisation of picturebooks under the supervision of Professor Dr. Dr. Heiner Böttger and Professor Dr. Thomas Hoffmann in the English Didactics department at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.