Dr Benjamin Kremmel 
(group leader)

benjamin.kremmel@uibk.ac.at

Education

MA in Teaching at Innsbruck University (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 (University of Innsbruck, 2011-2013)

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

Research interests

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

Kathrin Eberharter

kathrin.eberharter@uibk.ac.at

Education

MA in Teaching at Innsbruck University (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 (University of Innsbruck, Bifie Vienna, 2008-2013)

Lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of 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 Innsbruck University (first major: French; second major: English)

Currently: BA in Translation Studies at Innsbruck University

Professional background

Research assistant at the University of Innsbruck with LTRGI (since April 2019)

Research interests

Testing English and French as a foreign/second language, L2 writing assessment

Eva Konrad

eva.konrad@uibk.ac.at

Education

MA in English and American Studies at Innsbruck University

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

Currently: 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 (University of Innsbruck, 2011-2013)

Researcher at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of 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 Innsbruck University (first major: English; second major: Italian, awarded with distinction)

MA in Business Education at Innsbruck University

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 (University of 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, University of Innsbruck (2017-2020)

Lecturer at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Innsbruck (since 2020)

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

Sigrid Hauser

sigrid.hauser@uibk.ac.at

Administrative support