Barbara Seidlhofer

• English as a Lingua Franca: conceptualization, description, and theoretical implications
• Sociolinguistics: language contact, language variation and change
• Intercultural communication and 'multilingualism'
• Corpus linguistics: corpus compilation and computer-aided linguistic analysis
• Applied linguistic implications of the above, especially with regard to language policy, language teacher education and language pedagogy

Selected research projects

2005 – 2013        Project director, 'Translational Research Project' of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), see: http://www.univie.ac.at/voice, https://voice.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/

2006-2011           Project director, Work package 4.2. 'Emergent varieties' of the EU project DYLAN (Language dynamics and management of diversity),
see: http://www.dylan-project.org/Dylan_en/home/home.php

Experience in Teaching and Supervision

Wide experience in teaching courses on contemporary and applied English linguistics in Diploma, BA and MA programs at the University of Vienna.

Supervision of MA theses: more than 60 diploma and MA theses supervised and completed, about a dozen ongoing.

Supervision of about twenty doctoral theses. Eight have been completed.

Second evaluator of several doctoral theses in Vienna (English linguistics, general linguistics) and external PhD examiner at various universities abroad, including King's College London, Nottingham, Helsinki, Melbourne.

Position

Since 2005     

Full Professor of English Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philological and

Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

Education

2001                     

'Habilitation' (venia legendi, post-doctoral qualification) in English Linguistics, University of Vienna

(Habilitation: "English: Native Tongue, Foreign Language, Lingua Franca. An Applied Linguistic Enquiry")

1991                     

PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of London

(PhD Thesis: "Approaches to Summarization: Discourse Analysis and Language Education")

1984    

Master of Arts in Language and Literature in Education, University of London, Institute of Education

1982                     

MA in English and Italian, University of Vienna

2011-2019         

Founding editor, Journal of English as a Lingua Franca (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton).

2004-2008              

Editor, International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell).

Reviewer for numerous international journals, e.g. Applied Linguistics, ELT Journal, English for Specific Purposes, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, International Journal of Medical Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Awareness, Language Learning, Language and Politics, Language Policy, Language Teaching (CUP), Language Teaching Research, The Modern Language Journal, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly, World Englishes, Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung.   

Since 1999
Austrian Representative for the International Committee of AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée);

2002 – 2006
President of Verbal, the Austrian association for applied linguistics,

Since 2006
Member of the Verbal Executive Board.

Since 2005
Member of the Wiener Sprachgesellschaft (2005-2018 Chair)

2018-2020 Vice-Director of the Doctoral Studies programme (DSPL)

2007-2008, 2011, 2012-2014        Head of Department

2004 -2006 and 2008-2012           Deputy Head of Department

Member of Faculty conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies;

numerous committees (for curricula, professorial appointments, habilitations, curricula); representative of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the steering committee for teacher education