Career
Her research interests include curriculum design and methodology, especially Information and communications technology and multiliteracies. A further focus is on linguistic minorities, particularly migrant students of Turkish origin. After graduating from university, Florio-Hansen taught French, Italian and Latin at the secondary school level as well as in adult education.
She then worked at the education ministry in the German state of Hesse as adviser and teacher trainer for teachers of migrant students.
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in French Literature from the University of Aachen in Germany in 1971. Her post-doctoral thesis at Goethe University in Frankfurt was a study of vocabulary acquisition of adult learners.
After teaching at various German universities, she held a chair as Professor of Applied Linguistics (Romance Languages) at the University of Erfurt, Germany, between 1994 and 1996. In 1996, she became a Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication at the University of Kassel, Germany, retiring in 2008.