Team
Dr Benjamin Kremmel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dr Doris Moser-Frötscher
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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 |
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: 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 |
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
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Administrative support |
Former team members:
Sigrid Hauser
Veronika Schwarz
Franz Holzknecht
Matthias Zehentner
Michael Maurer