Mag. Veronika Thir
CV
- currently (since March 2015): university assistant, Phd student
- SS 2013: ERASMUS exchange student, Université Catholique de l'Ouest (Angers, France)
- 2010-2014: Student tutor at the Department of English, University of Vienna
- 2008-2014: Mag.phil., English and French studies, University of Vienna
Publications
- 2017. ''What happens when ELF users try to understand each other’s accents?''. (Guest post on ELF Pronunciation: Ideas for teachers and students interested in pronunciation and listening for English as a Lingua Franca, 22 August 2017). https://elfpron.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/elf10-thir/ (29 August 2017).
- 2016a. ''Rethinking pronunciation teaching in teacher education from an ELF perspective''. VIEWS 25, 1-28. (available at https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_anglistik/Department/Views/Uploads/VIEWS_2016_25.3_Thir_V2.pdf)
- 2016b. with Elizabeth J. Erling, Claudio Schekulin, Barbara Seidlhofer & Henry G. Widdowson. ''I English Language, Section 12: English as a lingua franca''. The Year's Work in English Studies 95, 130-169. (available at http://ywes.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/12/ywes.maw018.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=Y8o2CQbZXSCbX5e)
- 2015. ''Implications of English as a Lingua Franca for pronunciation teaching in teacher education''. In Levis, J.; Mohammed, R.; Qian, M.; Zhou, Z. (eds). Proceedings of the 6th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (ISSN 2380-9566), Santa Barbara, CA (pp. 243-252). Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
- 2014. ''PPOCS 1 revisited: Exploring the implications of ELF for English pronunciation teaching''. Unpublished MA thesis, University of Vienna. (available at http://othes.univie.ac.at/34801/)
Presentations
- 2018a. "Context, co-text and phonological intelligibility in ELF: evidence from a quantitative study". 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF 11), King's College London, London (UK), 4th-7th July 2018.
- 2018b. "Phonological intelligibility in English as a lingua franca: a quantitative perspective". Second international conference on sociolinguistics: insights from superdiversity, complexity and multimodality (ICS 2), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (Ungarn), 6.-8. September 2018.
- 2018c. "The effect of co-textual and contextual cues on phonological intelligibility in ELF talk". Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand), 27-30 June 2018.
- 2017a. ''Acoustic, co- and contextual information in understanding spoken English as a lingua franca (ELF): insights from instances of miscommunication''. ComCog 2017 (Communication and Cognition - Miscommunication: getting lost in language(s)), University of Fribourg, Fribourg (Switzerland), 8-10 February 2017.
- 2017b. ''The role of co- and contextual cues in understanding ELF accents''. ELF and Changing English: 10th Anniversary Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, University of Helsinki, Helsinki (Finland), 12-15 June 2017.
- 2017c. ''Understanding ELF accents: do context and co-text help?''. AILA-Europe Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 6-8 September 2017.
- 2016. ''Conceptualizations of intelligibility in ELF research''. The 9th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida (Spain), 27-29 June 2016.
- 2015a. ''ELF & English pronunciation teaching: a critical approach to pronunciation teaching in non-native language teacher education''. The 8th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Beijing (China), 25-27 August 2015.
- 2015b. ''Handling the heterogeneity: English as a lingua franca and the teaching of pronunciation''. Changing English 2015, University of Helsinki, Helsinki (Finland), 8-10 June 2015.
- 2014. ''Implications of English as a lingua franca for pronunciation teaching in teacher education''. Poster presentation, 6th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA), 5-6 September 2014.
- 2012. ''You know wha[t̬] I'm saying: T-voicing in English as a lingua franca''. 5th Austrian Students' Conference of Linguistics (5. ÖSKL), Department of English, Vienna (Austria), 16-18 November 2012.