Research Interests

• classroom discourse and ELF (English as a lingua franca)
• CLIL (content and language integrated learning), esp. at tertiary level
• ESP (English for specific purposes) teacher education
• South African English
• language attitudes and language policy

Teaching

• sociolinguistics
• World Englishes
• discourse analysis
• English as classroom language
• ESP and genre analysis
• intercultural communication

Selected Publications

• Smit, Ute. 2010. English as a Lingua Franca in Higher Education. A Longitudinal Study of Classroom Discourse.  Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Dalton-Puffer Christiane, Tarja Nikula & Ute Smit (eds.) 2010. Language use and language learning in CLIL classrooms. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Hüttner, Julia, Ute Smit & Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher. 2009. ESP teacher education at the interface of theory and practice: introducing a model of mediated corpus-based genre analysis. System 37/1.
• Smit, Ute. 2004. Language policies in Viennese schools: the roles English plays. VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 13/2: 69-87.
• Verhoef, Marlene & Ute Smit. 2003. Global norms and local requirements for "BSAE"? A pilot study of teachers' assessment and perceptions of learner texts. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 21/3: 153-168.
• Smit, Ute. 2002. The interaction of motivation and achievement in advanced EFL pronunciation learners. IRAL (International Review of Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching) 40/2: 89-115.

CV

• Mag.Phil (= MA), Dr. Phil (= PhD), Habilitation from the University of Vienna (1990, 1995, 2008)
• associate professor (“ao.Univ.Prof. “) since 2009
• lecturer at the Department of English Studies, University of Vienna since 1993
• research stay at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland as member of a research project financed by the Finnish Academy of Science in 2013
• recipient of a Charlotte-Bühler research grant from the FWF (Auatrisn Science Fund) from 2004-06
• research fellow at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa in 1992-93
• visiting lecturer at University of Graz, Austria in 2009-10 and at the University of Stellenbosh, South Africa in 2010 and 2012
• teacher of English and Mathematics in Austrian and South African secondary schools in 1991-92