Schmiderer, Katrin, Mag.a PhD, BA

Portrait Katrin Schmiderer

Innrain 52, room no. 40511, 5th floor, Geiwi Tower

Consultation hours: Wednesday, 5:00-6:00 pm or by appointment

+43/512/507-43005

katrin.schmiderer@uibk.ac.at

ORCID 0000-0001-9030-5104

About the person

  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant (50%), University of Innsbruck | October 2022 – present
  • Italian and Spanish Teacher, KORG Innsbruck | September 2016 – present
  • Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Graz (Department of Romance Studies)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, “Seed Funding for the Project ‘Learner Language Development in a School Context: Empirical Findings for Modern Language Instruction,’” Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz | July 2022 – September 2022
  • Project staff member, Erasmus+ project “DigiTask4IC,” Institute of Subject Didactics, University of Innsbruck | April 2022 – November 2022
  • Pre-doctoral university assistant, Institute of Subject Didactics, University of Innsbruck | October 2017 – October 2021
  • Pre-doctoral Research Assistant, Institute of Subject Didactics, University of Innsbruck (maternity leave replacement) | January 2016 – September 2017
  • Student Assistant, Institute of Subject Didactics and Institute of Translation Studies | October 2013 – December 2015

Teaching

  • SE (Master) Ausgewählte Bereiche der Fachdidaktik Spanisch: Adquisición y enseñanza de ELE en entornos digitales
  • SE (Master) Methoden und Instrumenten der unterrichtsspezifischen Fachdidaktikforschung: Spanisch 
  • VU (Bachelor) Einführung in die Didaktik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts
  • PS (Bachelor) Sprachen lernen/lehren: Las destrezas escuchar y hablar y la competencia léxica en la clase de ELE
  • PS (Bachelor)Sprachen lernen/lehren: Le abilità secondarie leggere e scrivere e la competenza grammaticale
  • Elective course (Master) „Kollaboratives Digitales Task Design für den Fremdsprachenunterricht"

 

Teacher training programme

  • PH Tirol: Head of the Italian Working Group (AHS, Tyrol)
  • Professional development workshops for Italian and Spanish teachers at numerous teacher training colleges in Austria, most recently on “Learning by Doing: Task-Based Foreign Language Learning,” “Ascoltami/Escúchame: Alternative Approaches for More Input in Foreign Language Instruction,” and Language Acquisition in Spanish Instruction
  • KPH Edith Stein: Mentor training course “In-depth Subject-Specific Pedagogical Aspects in Mentoring”

Research

  • (Guided) second language acquisition (particularly Italian and Spanish as L2)
    • Morphosyntax
    • Formulaic sequences
    • The interface between reception and production
    • Interaction, particularly turn-taking
  • Task-based language teaching (TBLT)
    • Technology-supported tasks
    • TBLT in teacher education
    • Tasks in learner-chatbot interactions
    • Learner autonomy
  • Learning and teaching Spanish in Sahrawi refugee camps

 

Projects
FWF Project ATLAS: Analysis of Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition & Assessment

Erasmus+ Project OPTIMIST (Optimizing digital task implementation in school teaching, 2024-1-AT01-KA220-SCH-000248923)

DILL Project (Digital Competencies in Teacher Education – From the Perspectives of Learners and Teachers) (€6,000, Faculty of Teacher Education) 
PRO-Lehre Project on the Implementation of Digital Tasks (€5,000, University of Innsbruck, in collaboration with Christine Konecny) (2021–2022)

 

Publications

Monographs

  • Schmiderer, K. (2023). Produktiver und rezeptiver Grammatikerwerb im schulischen Italienischunterricht. Eine Lernersprachenanalyse. Narr.

Editorships

  • Schmiderer, K./Lenzing, A./Howard, Nicholas (in preparation). PT-focused dialogues in relation to emergence and beyond (edited volume, John Benjamins)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies

  • Lenzing, A., Schmiderer, K., Egger, K. (submitted). Investigating L2 multi-person interaction – what gaze shifts reveal about predictions in turn-taking.
  • Schmiderer, K. (accepted). Formulaic Patterns in L2 Italian Secondary School Learners’ Interlanguage Development. International Journal of Bilingualism.
  • Schmiderer, K. (accepted). Investigating L2 developmental stages in productive and receptive language use – Revisiting key methodological issues. In PALART Series (Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research and Teaching) 10. Processability Theory: Extensions and Interfaces.
  • Schmiderer, K. (accepted). Interaktionales Feedback in aufgabenbasierten mündlichen Interaktionen zwischen L2-Spanischschüler:innen und Chatbots. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung 37(1).
  • Schmiderer, K., Brocca, N., Guggenbichler, E., & Konzett-Firth, C. (2025). Exploring pre-service teachers’ criteria for evaluating collaboratively designed online tasks. TASK, 5(1), 57–87. https://doi.org/10.1075/task.24001.sch
  • Schmiderer, K., & Hinger, B. (2023). L'interlingua produttiva e ricettiva di studenti di italiano LS in un contesto di scuola secondaria austriaca. Italiano LinguaDue, 15(2), 43-64. https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/21938
  • Schmiderer, K. (2021). Italienisch- und Spanischlernen ‘wie ich selbst es gerne hätte’: Sprachlerntagebücher als Instrument zur Förderung von Lernerautonomie. In J. Harjus, E. Autelli, G. Hassler, C. Konzett-Firth, St. Lange, & N. Zapf (Eds.), Grenzen und Brücken in der Romania. Beiträge zum 35. Forum Junge Romanistik in Innsbruck. (18.-20. März 2019). AVM.

Articles in anthologies

  • Schmiderer, K. (accepted). Teoria della Processabilità / Presentazione – Pratica _ Produzione / Ipotesi dell’Insegnabilità / Diario d’Apprendimento. In E. Serena (Ed.), Dizionario dell’italiano L2: insegnamento, apprendimento, ricerca. Pacini editore.
  • Schmiderer, K., Nuzzo, E., Konzett-Firth, C., Brocca, N., & Balaman, U. (accepted). Conducting Task-Based Needs Analysis in Digital Lower Secondary School Contexts. In S. Khezrlou (Ed.), TBLT for young learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals. John Benjamins.
  • Schmiderer, K., & Konecny, Ch. (2025). Phraseodidaktik goes Aufgabenorientierung: Einblicke in die kollaborative Entwicklung korpusbasierter Lernmaterialien für das Italienische. In B. Mertz-Baumgartner, & W. Stadler (Ed.), Doing Fach.Didaktik. Wissen. Lehren. Verbinden. Narr.
  • Schmiderer, K., Labeidi, H. F., & Hinger, Barbara (2024). El español en los campamentos saharauis. In Hispanorama 184, 124-129. 
  • Schmiderer, K. (2024). Potenziale von tasks für die Förderung lexikalischer Kompetenz. In E.M. Hirzinger-Unterrainer (Ed.), Aufgabenorientierung im Italienischunterricht. Ein theoretischer Einblick mit praktischen Beispielen (pp. 45-83). Narr.
  • Schmiderer, K., Zanasi, L., Konecny, Ch., Autelli, E. (2020). Sviluppare la competenza lessicale e fraseologica tramite i task. Un contributo allo sviluppo di materiale per l'italiano L2. Italiano LinguaDue, 12(2) (=Quaderni di Italiano LinguaDue 4, a cura di Enrico Serena, Gerald Bernhard, Irene Gallerani, Judith Visser), 238-256.
  • Hinger, B., Hirzinger-Unterrainer, E. M., Schmiderer, K. (2020). A Cross-Linguistic and Multilingual Pre-Service Teacher Education Program: Insights From the Innsbruck Model of Foreign Language Teacher Education". In P. Mickan, & I. Wallace (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Education Curriculum Design (pp. 274-288). Routledge.

Assignments and Teaching Materials (Open Educational Resources) 

Textbooks

All publications

Scientific organisation

  • Assistant Editor of the journal Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA)
  • Member of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA)
  • Member of the Austrian Society for Foreign Language Teaching (ÖGSD)
  • Member of the Association for Applied Linguistics Austria (verbal)
  • Member of the interuniversity network LiNe - Language in Education: https://languageineducation.eu/en/
  • Conference organization 
  • ÖGSD Young Researchers’ Conference 2019 (together with Benjamin Fliri),
  • 22nd International Symposium on Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition 2023 (together with Anke Lenzing)
  • Coordinator of the DiA lecture series (Didactics in the Evening)
  • Science communication within the framework of the Young University, Children’s University, and BeSt, e.g., https://langenachtderforschung.at/station/5002

 

Other projects

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