Dr Benjamin Kremmel 
(group leader)

benjamin.kremmel@uibk.ac.at

Education

MA in Teaching at Universität Innsbruck (first major: English; second major: Psychology and Philosophy, awarded with distinction)

MA in Language Testing at Lancaster University (by distance, awarded with distinction)

PhD in Applied Linguistics at University of Nottingham, UK

Currently: Cumulative habilitation on Language Assessment Literacy

Professional background

Involved in the development of language tests for the standardized Austrian school leaving exam project (Universität Innsbruck, 2011-2013)

Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck (since 2011)

Research interests

L2 lexical knowledge, vocabulary assessment, L2 reading assessment, diagnostic language testing, language assessment literacy, SLA

Dr Kathrin Eberharter

kathrin.eberharter@uibk.ac.at

Education

MA in Teaching at Universität Innsbruck (first major: English; second major: German)

MA in Language Testing at Lancaster University (by distance)

PhD in Language Testing at Lancaster University (by distance)

Professional background

Involved in the development of language tests for the standardized Austrian school leaving exam project (Universität Innsbruck, Bifie Vienna, 2008-2013)

Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck (since 2013)

Lecturer at teacher training colleges in Tirol, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz (since 2013)

Research interests

Assessing L2 speaking, assessing L2 writing, rater behaviour and rater cognition, assessing vocabulary and grammar in context

Elisa Guggenbichler

 elisa.guggenbichler@uibk.ac.at 

Education

MA in Teaching at Universität Innsbruck (first major: French; second major: English)

BA in Translation Studies at Universität Innsbruck

Currently:  PhD in Education (Language Eduaction) at Universität Innsbruck

Professional background

Research assistant at LTRGI (2019-2021)

PreDoc at Universität Innsbruck (since 2022)

Research interests

Testing English and French as a foreign/second language, L2 writing assessment, L2 listening assessment, test accommodations for learners with learning difficulties

Eva Konrad

eva.konrad@uibk.ac.at

Education

MA in English and American Studies at Universität Innsbruck

MA in Language Testing at Lancaster University (by distance, awarded with distinction)

Professional background

Involved in the development of language tests for the standardized Austrian school leaving exam project (Universität Innsbruck, 2011-2013)

Researcher at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck (since 2013)

Lecturer at teacher training colleges across Austria (since 2013)

Research interests

L2 writing assessment, effects of dictionaries on writing, diagnostic testing, reading and listening task development

Dr Doris Moser-Frötscher

Education

MA in Teaching at Universität Innsbruck (first major: English; second major: Italian, awarded with distinction)

MA in Business Education at Universität Innsbruck

PhD in Language Testing at Lancaster University (by distance)

Professional background

Involved in the development of language tests for the standardized Austrian school leaving exam project (Universität Innsbruck, BIFIE Vienna, Austrian Ministry of Education 2007-2020)

Lecturer at teacher training colleges across Austria (since 2011)

External lecturer at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck (2017-2020)

Lecturer at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck (2020-2021)

Researcher at LTRGI (since 2021)

Research interests

Washback, reading and listening task development, assessing L2 writing, assessing L2 speaking

Dr Carol Spöttl 

carol.spoettl@uibk.ac.at

Education

BA English, History and Education at Edinburgh University

MA in English Language Teaching and Professional Development at the University of East Anglia

PhD in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University (by distance)

Professional background

Long-time lecturer at Innsbruck University: 
- Department of English: language skills and awareness, linguistics and culture
- Department of Language Didactics: language didactics, language testing

Long-time lecturer at teacher training colleges across Austria

Initiator of the standardized Austrian school leaving examination project

Research interests

Language testing, corpus linguistics, language acquisition, multilingualism

Viktoria Ebner

viktoria.ebner@uibk.ac.at

Education

BEd & MEd in Teaching at Universität Innsbruck (first major: English; second major: Biology)

Professional background

Research assistant at LTRGI (2021-2022)

Foreign Language Assistant at a school in the UK (2022-2023)

Researcher at LTRGI (since May 2023)

Research interests

(Language) Assessment Literacy of Science teachers, interplay of content and language in assessment 

Simone Baumgartinger

simone.baumgartinger@uibk.ac.at

Education

BA in Translation Studies at Universität Innsbruck

Currently: MA in Translation Studies at Universität Innsbruck

Currently: BEd in Teaching at Universität Innsbruck (first major: English; second major: French)

Professional background

Foreign Language Assistant at a school in France (2021-2022)

Research assistant at LTRGI (since May 2022)

Research interests

Writing assessment, translation tools in assessment

Annette Giesinger

annette.giesinger@uibk.ac.at

Administrative support