News: Supervision of MA and doctoral theses:
I am currently supervising quite a number of theses but am generally not taking on any new supervision responsibilities.
However, if you have a very specific request and can make a strong case for working on a topic that would advance research into English as a Lingua Franca do feel free to contact me by e-mail, and with a draft research proposal.
Consultation hours: Office hours: by appointment.
I am retired but continue to be available for my MA and PhD supervisees and for students I teach and examine. This can be on site, by telephone or via video conferencing. Please request an appointment by sending me an e-mail <barbara.seidlhofer@univie.ac.at>, and mention what you would like to talk about.
If you want to know more about my work and the ELF research group at our department please visit the ELF research group website.
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/teams-and-research-areas/elf/
Research Interests
- English as a Lingua Franca: conceptualization, description, and theoretical implications
- Sociolinguistics: language contact, language variation and change
- Intercultural communication and 'multilingualism'
- Corpus linguistics: corpus compilation and computer-aided linguistic analysis
- Applied linguistic implications of the above, especially with regard to language policy, language teacher education and language pedagogy
Selected research projects
2005 – 2013 Project director, 'Translational Research Project' of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), see: http://www.univie.ac.at/voice, https://voice.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/
2006-2011 Project director, Work package 4.2. 'Emergent varieties' of the EU project DYLAN (Language dynamics and management of diversity),
see: http://www.dylan-project.org/Dylan_en/home/home.php
Teaching
Experience in Teaching and Supervision
Wide experience in teaching courses on contemporary and applied English linguistics in Diploma, BA and MA programs at the University of Vienna.
Supervision of MA theses: more than 60 diploma and MA theses supervised and completed, about a dozen ongoing.
Supervision of about twenty doctoral theses. Eight have been completed.
Second evaluator of several doctoral theses in Vienna (English linguistics, general linguistics) and external PhD examiner at various universities abroad, including King's College London, Nottingham, Helsinki, Melbourne.
Journal Editorship
Editor 2012-2019
Textus - English Studies in Italy (Carocci Editore, Rome)
Co-Editor Vol.: XXVII - "Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca", with Maria Grazia Guido (Università del Salento)
Jan 2014
International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell)
Herausgeberin
2004-2008
Administrative Duties
2018-2020 Vice-Director of the Doctoral Studies programme (DSPL)
2007-2008, 2011, 2012-2014 Head of Department
2004 -2006 and 2008-2012 Deputy Head of Department
Member of Faculty conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies;
numerous committees (for curricula, professorial appointments, habilitations, curricula); representative of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the steering committee for teacher education
Countering convention:English as a lingua franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Exceptional English
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
ELF recognition and resistance
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
ELF and beyond
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker), Sandra Radinger (Speaker), Vanja Vukovic (Speaker), Stefanie Riegler (Speaker) & Lisa Bierbaumer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Defensiones at the University of Vienna
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker), Tamara Radak (Speaker) & Michela Borzaga (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The ENRICH Continuous Professional Development Course: The participants’ perspective - Reflective Comments
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker) & Henry George Widdowson (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Yours inclusively: ELF communication
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Challenging Conventions. Wider Implications of English as a Lingua Franca Research
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Communication and community: an ELF perspective on critical contexts
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
English as a lingua franca: quest, fact, controversy
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Podiumsdiskussion
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Joint Plenary Session
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker) & Martin Dewey (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tracing Themes and Trends in ELF Research
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
EMI and CLIL and ELF: How do they relate?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
English as a Lingua Franca: Focus on Nonstandard Forms and Non-Elite Domains
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
ELF in Applied Linguistics: Journal Editors' Perspectives
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Positioning ELF as Applied Linguistic Research
Barbara Seidlhofer (Selected presenter)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Incapable competences: the communicative use of English as a lingua franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Borders and barriers in foreign language education
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
English as a Lingua Franca (Panel Chair)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
English as a Lingua Franca: Why is it so Controversial?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Exploring English as a lingua franca and its educational significance
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker) & Henry George Widdowson (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Looking ahead: Prospects for the Study of English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Taking stock: English and Globalization: the Challenge of Change
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
ELF in Prospect. Where do we go from here? (Invited panel)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker) & Henry George Widdowson (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Comment to the Lecture "Identities of English: A dynamic emergent scene" by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Concepts of Competence
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
ELF in and as local practice
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Conformist competence or communicative capability?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
(Re) Defining issues in Applied Linguistics, TESOL and SLA
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Language awareness, language regimes and translanguaging in cross-cultural high stakes encounters
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker) & Sandra Radinger (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Language awareness, language regimes and translanguaging in cross-cultural highstakes encounters
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
ELF in critical contexts
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Learner corpora, ELF corpora: what's the difference?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Real-world implications of ELF
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Standard deviation and English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Unauthorized Access. The case of English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Barbara Seidlhofer meets Stefan Majewski. Looking back on the „VOICE-PROJEKT“ (Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English).
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English in Reality - English used as a Lingua Franca in the World
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The Global Significance of ELF Study
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English as a lingua franca: what's old, what's new?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
ELF research: key issues and recent developments
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Changing the Subject
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Compiling and Using VOICE as a Research Tool
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Researching English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Rethinking 'English' in High-Stakes Encounters: the Significance of English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The 'E' of 'TEA' in a globalised world
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The 'E' of 'TESOL' in the Age of Globalization
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Roman Forum
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'The Dislocation and Relocation of English'. Invited colloquium 'Understanding and Using Languages in a Globalizing World', convened by Joan Kelly Hall.
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
ELF-informed pedagogy: from code-fixation to language awareness
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Research perspectives on English as a lingua franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'Negotiable Language. Understanding English as a Lingua Franca' Invited keynote address, ‘Inglese Lingua Franca nell’ambito delle Relazioni Internazionali’
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"Proficiency in English": the ELF perspective (Invited plenary address)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"ELF (English as a Lingua Franca): new perspectives on English" (Invited lecture and seminar)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The VOICEs of Europe and Asia: diversity of data but harmony in approach
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Anglophone-centric attitudes and the globalization of English (Invited plenary address)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"Translanguaging via English as a Lingua Franca" (Invited plenary address)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"Capability vs. Code-fixation" Round table "Literacy, language teaching and social inclusion"
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Plenary Panel ELF4
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"To get the better of words" Proficiency in English: the ELF Perspective
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Multilingual communities in contact: conceptual implications and linguistic consequences
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"ELF research: issues arising."
Barbara Seidlhofer (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"English as a lingua franca: Recent theoretical and empirical developments."
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"English as a Lingua Franca: What´s The Use In Education?"
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"Conformity and creativity in ELF and learner English"
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Englisch als Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Eigentum und Eigenart: Wem gehört die Weltsprache Englisch
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
AAUTE LehrerInnenausbildung
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
VOICE: The Project s Progress
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The Pedagogic Use of the Use of English
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The EU Integrated Project DYLAN
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
LehrerInnenbildung und Mehrsprachigkeit
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Border crossing with English as a lingua franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English as a lingua franca: A use of language in its own right
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Symposium 'Reconciling multilingualism with English as a lingua franca: Realistic policy or wishful thinking?'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Focus on ELF in VOICE
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Otherwise engaged: ELF and its relevance for language awareness.
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'On the need to rethink the 'E' in TEFL'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'A VOICE for ELF'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Correctness vs appropriateness
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'Lingua franca et émergence d'une nouvelle variété d'anglais?'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'ELF findings: form and function'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Giving VOICE to English as a lingua franca
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'In quest of a language for cross-cultural communication.'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
World Englishes and 'English as a linga franca' - two frameworks or one?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The nature and significance of English as a Lingua Franca or on the 'E' in 'ELT'
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
'Accommodation and the idiom principle in English as a Lingua Franca'.
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The nature and significance of English as a Lingua Franca or on the 'E' in 'ELT
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English is too important to be left to its native speakers
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English as a lingua franca and its implications for language pedagogy
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English as an International Lingua Franca: New Concepts, New Priorities
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Ergebnisse der Diskussion: LehrerInnenbildung
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English as a lingua franca: So what's new?
Barbara Seidlhofer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"Describing English as a Lingua Franca" Panel "English in multilingual contexts",
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
English as a lingua franca: "Qué pasa?"
Barbara Seidlhofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
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