Doris Moser-Frötscher
Education and Professional Background
- Researcher at the Language Testing Research Group Innsbruck, Department of Subject-Specific Education, University of Innsbruck | since 2021
- Over 15 years of experience in the development and research of language tests
- University assistant (PraeDoc), University of Innsbruck
- Researcher in the Standardised Austrian school leaving exam project, University of Innsbruck and Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, Vienna | 2007-2020
- Lecturer at teacher training colleges across Austria | since 2011
- Lecturer at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck | 2020-2021
- External lecturer at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universität Innsbruck | 2017-2020
- PhD in Applied Linguistics, Lancaster University, GB
- MA in Business Education, University of Innsbruck
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MA in Teaching, University of Innsbruck (first major: English; second major: Italian), with distinction
Research Interests
- Language assessment literacy
- Vocabulary acquisition
- Standard setting
- Language testing in migration contexts
Teaching
- Language-specific course for testing and assessing English
- Introduction to testing and assessment in foreign language teaching
- Selected aspects for advanced study of introduction to testing and assessing in foreign language teaching
- Teaching English for specific purposes: Theoretical and practical perspectives
- Teaching speaking, listening and vocabulary
- Understanding the CEFR: Use in the foreign language classroom
- Conference Organisation: IATEFL TEASIG
- Standardized school leaving exam:
- Insights into current developments and collaboration on task development
- Language in use
- Evaluation of the language skill writing
Administration
Conference organisation
- LTRC 2024 (Language Testing Research Colloquium) “Reforming Language Assessment Systems, Reforming Language Assessment Research”, Innsbruck
- EALTA Annual conference 2012 (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment) “Validity in Language Testing and Assessment”, Innsbruck
- IATEFL TEASIG conference 2011 (Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group) "Standards and Standardizing in High and Low Stakes Exams. Assessment from classroom to Matura", Innsbruck
Supervision of Theses
- Bachelor's theses at the University of Innsbruck
- Master's theses in the MA in Language Testing (Distance), Lancaster University, UK
Professional Service
Reviewing
- European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA), annual conference
- International Language Testing Association (ILTA), annual conference
- PLOS One
- Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
- Language Testing in Asia
Committees
- Member of the EALTA Task Force on Future Roles of EALTA (2023)
- Member of the ILTA Task Force for the Translation of the ILTA Code of Ethics from English into German (with Prof. Claudia Harsch and Peter Lenz, 2018)
- Member of the IATEFL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment SIG (TEASIG) Committee (2012–2015)
Memberships
- European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA)
- International Language Testing Association (ILTA)
- International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL)
- IATEFL Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group (TEASIG)
- Österreichische Gesellschaft für Sprachendidaktik (ÖGSD)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF)
- Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics (VALS-ASLA)
- Verband Fremdsprachendidaktik Schweiz (ADLES)
Awards and honours
- Innovation in Assessment Award of the British Council 2013
- Thanks and recognition from the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research for extraordinary commitment and valuable pioneering work in the field of the standardized school leaving exam in foreign languages. Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (2018).