Mag. Dr. Marlene Schwarz

https://marleneschwarz.wordpress.com/

Consultation hours: by appointment

Summer term 2024

126211 KU BEd 11.2: KU Practicum Coaching, Materials Evaluation and Development

Winter term 2023

126210 KU BEd 11.2: KU Practicum Coaching, Materials Evaluation and Development

Summer term 2023

126210 KU BEd 11.2: KU Practicum Coaching, Materials Evaluation and Development

127000 FK BEd 07.1: Materials Evaluation and Development - interim

Schwarz, M., & Ghamarian-Krenn, K. (2024). Extramural Engagement with English and vocabulary learning outcomes: A comparative account of research on Viennese teenagers and university students. In U. Smit, & S. Reichl (Eds.), #YouthMediaLife & Friends: Interdisciplinary research into young people's mediatised lifeworlds / Interdisziplinäre Forschung zu mediatisierten Lebenswelten Jugendlicher: Interdisziplinäre Forschung zu mediatisierten Lebenswelten Jugendlicher (pp. 43-67). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.14220/9783737016391

Schwarz, M. (2023). Learner perspectives on informal l2 vocabulary learning. In D. Toffoli, G. Sockett, & M. Kusyk (Eds.), Language Learning and Leisure: Informal Language Learning in the Digital Age (pp. 159-183). Walter de Gruyter. Studies on Language Acquisition (SOLA) Vol. 66 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110752441-008

Schwarz, M. (2020, Apr). Beyond the walls: A mixed methods study of teenagers’ extramural English practices and their vocabulary knowledge. http://othes.univie.ac.at/63632/

Smit, U., & Schwarz, M. (2020). English in Austria: policies and practices. In R. Hickey (Ed.), English in German-speaking Europe (pp. 294-314). Cambridge University Press.

Schwarz, M. (2016). Beyond the walls: Vocabulary learning from extramural English. In M. Boniecki (Ed.), ÖGSD Tagungsberichte Vol. 1: 8. Nachwuchtstagung. Sprachendidaktik: Der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs im Dialog (Vol. 1, pp. 58-61). [15] ÖGSD. http://www.oegsd.at/Publikationen/Tagungsberichte/tabid/3852/Default.aspx

Schwarz, M. (2013). Learning with Lady GaGa& Co: Incidental EFL vocabulary acquisition from pop songs. VIEW[Z] : Vienna English working papers, 22, 17-48.

Marlene Schwarz is a lecturer in applied linguistics and 'Fachdidaktik'.

She held a position as a uni:docs fellow at the department from October 2015 to September 2018 and has recently finished her PhD research on vocabulary acquisition in out-of-school contexts with a thesis entitled "Beyond the walls: A mixed methods study of teenagers’ extramural English practices and their vocabulary knowledge".

She has a teaching degree in English and Italian from the University of Vienna and has been working as a teacher at an academic secondary school since 2013.

Research interests

Language teaching and learning
Extramural English / Out-of-school learning
Vocabulary acquistion and testing

Publications

Smit, Ute & Schwarz, Marlene. In print. “English in Austria: policies and practices”. In R Hickey (ed.), English in the German-speaking world. Cambridge University Press.2016.

"Beyond the walls: Vocabulary learning from extramural English". In Boniecki, Monica. ÖGSD Tagungsberichte 1, 58-61. http://www.oegsd.at/Publikationen/Tagungsberichte/tabid/3852/Default.aspx2013.

“Learning with Lady GaGa & Co: Incidental EFL vocabulary acquisition from pop songs”. VIEWS 22, 17-48.

Conference talks

"Language awareness in out-of-school contexts: The case of extramural English". Association for Language Awareness 2018 Towards Language Aware Citizenship (ALA 2018). Amsterdam, 4-7 July 2018.
“Vocabulary learning from extramural English in Austria”. Annual conference for the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English (AAUTE 2018). Salzburg, May 4-5 2018.

“Extramural English and vocabulary acquisition: the case of a non-subtitling country”. Symposium of the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics (ASLA 2018). Karlstad, 12-13 April 2018.

“The effect of engagement with extramural English on learners’ vocabulary size in a ‘non-subtitling’ country”. 41st annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2018). Chicago, 24-27 March 2018.

“Breaking the wall: How extramural English impacts vocabulary knowledge”. Language Education across Borders (LEAB 2018). Graz, 8-10 December 2017.

"Using Lex30 to explore the relationship between Extramural English and productive vocabulary knowledge". 40th annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2017). Portland, March 18-21 2017.

"English Everywhere? Raising Awareness about Extramural English in Austria". Association for Language Awareness 2016 Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts (ALA 2016). Wien, 19-22 July 2016.

"Beyond the walls – Vocabulary learning from Extramural English". 8. ÖGSD Nachwuchstagung Sprachendidaktik: Der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs im Dialog (8th Young Researchers' Forum of the Austrian Association for Language Teaching). Wien, 21 May 2016.

"Measuring vocabulary learning from Extramural English in Austria". Lexical Studies Research Network Conference 2016 (Cardiff University). Cardiff, 9-11 March 2016.

"Beyond the walls - Vocabulary learning from Extramural English". 6. ÖGSD Tagung "Sprachen und Kulturen: vermitteln und vernetzen" (ÖGSD 2015, 6th Conference of the Austrian Society for Language Teaching). Salzburg, 20-21 November 2015.

“Learning with Lady GaGa & Co.: Incidental EFL vocabulary acquisition from pop songs”. 5th AILA-Europe Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics (AILA JRM 2013). Dublin, 19 June 2013.

“Learning by listening – Incidental vocabulary acquisition from pop songs”.4. Nachwuchstagung der Österreichschen Gesellschaft für Sprachendidaktik (4th Young Researchers’ Conference of Austrian Society for Language Teaching). Linz, 19 May 2012.

“Attitudes of Austrians towards gender-inclusive language forms in written German”.3. Österreichische Studierendenkonferenz der Linguistik (ÖSKL 2010, 3rd Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics). Salzburg, 4 December 2010.

Poster presentations

"Beyond the walls? Vocabulary learning from extramural English". BAAL/Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar. (In)formal second language learning: Integrating informal practices into informal contexts (ISLL 2018). Oxford, 23-24 August 2018.

"English everywhere? Engagement with extramural English among Viennese teenagers". 9th AILA-Europe Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics (AILA JRM 2017). Vienna, September 6-8 2017.

"The receptive vocabulary size of Austrian upper secondary school students and its relation to extramural English". 4th Annual Conference of the Vocabulary Special Interest Group of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL Vocab SIG). Reading, 3-4 July 2017.

"Beyond the wall -Vocabulary learning from extramural English in Vienna, Austria". 29th International Conference on Foreign / Second Language Acquisition (ICFSLA 2017). Szczyrk, May 18-20 2017.

CV

since Oct.2019 External lecturer in linguistics
2015-2018 University Assistant (praedoc) with uni:docs fellowship,
Department of English, University ofVienna
since Sep. 2013    AHS Teacherfor English and Italian
2012/13   Foreignlanguage assistant in the UK
2012       Mag. phil. English and Italian Studies, Universityof Vienna
2011/12       Student assistant at the Department of English and American Studies