Master's thesis - information and documents
General information
The Master's thesis can be written with a didactic focus in the field of languages. The Master's thesis is not linked to any module or course.
If the Master's thesis is written in the subject English, French, Italian or Spanish, it must be written in the respective language. If the Master's thesis is written in the subject Russian, the thesis can also be written in Russian after consultation with the supervisor.
30 ECTS credits are allocated for the Master's thesis. These are divided into the module "Conception of the Master's thesis" (5 ECTS), Master's thesis (22.5 ECTS) and defence (2.5 ECTS). In the module "Conception of the Master's thesis", the topic, scope and form of the thesis are agreed on the basis of an exposé. The assessment is carried out using the form Conception of the Master's thesis.
Registration of the Master's thesis
After discussing your thesis with your supervisor and receiving confirmation of supervision, please complete the form Registration of the Master's thesis.
This must be submitted to the Examinations Office at least two months before the Master's thesis is due to be submitted. However, six months in advance is recommended.
Format, structure and evaluation criteria
Further information on the format, structure and assessment criteria of the Master's thesis can be found at Guidelines for writing a Master's thesis.
Administrative steps for the Master's thesis and graduation
Important administrative steps regarding the Master's thesis and the degree programme can be found at Guidelines of the Faculty of Teacher Education.
The Master's thesis is submitted to the Examinations Office using the form Submission of the Master's thesis.
Your supervisors
At present, Eva M. HIRZINGER-UNTERRAINER (eva.hirzinger-unterrainer@uibk.ac.at) for the teaching subjects English, Italian and Spanish, Carmen KONZETT-FIRTH (carmen.konzett@uibk.ac.at) preferably for the teaching subjects French and English and Anke LENZING (anke.lenzing@uibk.ac.at) for the teaching subject English can supervise a Master's thesis in the field of foreign language didactics, regardless of the chosen topic, on the basis of a subject-related teaching authorisation (Venia Docendi).
The following persons are also eligible for Master's theses in the area of current research activities:
Sonja BACHER: Digital media in (face-to-face) foreign language teaching, in Russian, English teaching, e-learning, blended learning, distance learning, media-supported cultural learning, motivation and media, media literacy/media literacies, Russian and English; cross-linguistic/language-comparative work; co-supervision of Italian, if applicable.
Nicola BROCCA: Didactics of Italian, digital media in the classroom, acquisition and didactics of pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, corpus-based foreign language didactics and data-driven learning, digitally supported TBLT; empirical work in sociopragmatics of Italian L2 using the Ladder corpus (https://zenodo.org/record/6390255#.YmEjT99CRaQ); Italian
Kathrin EBERHARTER: all aspects related to the testing and assessment of productive foreign language skills (writing and speaking); in particular assessment processes in foreign language testing and assessment (rater cognition, rater behaviour), the development and use of assessment grids, feedback on oral and written performance, and the development of tasks; work that goes into more detail on the cognitive processes involved in working on test tasks (i.e. processes that are activated when writing, reading, listening and speaking in the foreign language); English
Magdalena KALTSEIS: audiovisual media in foreign language teaching, authenticity,media literacy, motivation, Russian colloquial language, language ideologies, (critical) discourse analysis, metaphor analysis, cross-linguistic/comparative work; Russian and French
Ornella KRAEMER: Literary didactics in general, in particular didactics of children's and young adult literature as well as didactics of comics and graphic novels; Italian and English
Benjamin KREMMEL: Vocabulary, testing and assessment; English - (co-)supervision from this subject area to other languages if the thesis is written in English.
Katrin SCHMIDERER: Morphosyntax acquisition, learner language analyses, task-based learning (TBLT), learner autonomy, Italian and Spanish
The persons mentioned are also eligible for participation in an MA thesis.
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Guidelines for writing a Master's thesis
Catalogue of ethics questions: Self-evaluation for compliance with ethical framework guidelines and legal requirements when conducting research projects at the Faculty of Teacher Education