Mag. Dr. Helen Heaney, BA
Helen Heaney
T: +43-1-4277-42418

Consultation hours: In teaching weeks (W24/25):
Tuesday 14.00-15.00 (+43(0)1 4277-42418)
Email contact preferred; you will get a quick response. :-)


Berger, A., Heaney, H., & Sigott, G. (2023). Dimensions of language assessment literacy and their difficulty for pre-service teachers of English in Austria. In C. Amerstorfer, & M. V. Blanckenburg (Eds.), Activating and engaging learners and teachers: Perspectives for English language education (pp. 159-182). Narr Francke Attempto. Buchreihe zu den Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 27 https://doi.org/10.24053/9783823394600

Berger, A., & Heaney, H. (2023). Language Assessment Literacy in teacher education: Factoring difficulty into course design. In H. Cesnik, N. Dobric, & C. Harsch (Eds.), Festschrift in honour of Günther Sigott: Advanced methods in language testing (pp. 53-76). Peter Lang. Language Testing and Evaluation

Heaney, H. (2022). Advanced Students’ and Lecturers’ Views on the Usefulness of Vocabulary Logs for Expanding Vocabulary. In A. Berger, H. Heaney, P. Resnik, A. Rieder-Bünemann, & G. Savukova (Eds.), Developing advanced English language competence: A research-informed approach at tertiary level (pp. 257-279). Springer. English Language Education Vol. 22 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79241-1_24

Heaney, H., & Kaltenböck, G. (2022). Language Analysis & Grammar in Use. In A. Berger, H. Heaney, P. Resnik, A. Rieder-Bünemann, & G. Savukova (Eds.), Developing advanced English language competence: A research-informed approach at tertiary level (pp. 27-34). Springer. English Language Education


Heaney, H., & Berger, A. (2019). From local islands of knowledge to a shared, global understanding: a concept for improving assessment literacy in pre-service teachers of English at Vienna University, Austria. In C. Falkenhagen, H. Funk, M. Reinfried, & L. Volkmann (Eds.), Sprachen lernen integriert - global, regional, lokal: Dokumentation zum 27. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF) Jena, 27.-30. September 2017 (pp. 187-200). Schneider Verlag Hohengehren. Beiträge zur Fremdsprachenforschung Vol. 15

Heaney, H., & Berger, A. (2018). Devloping rating instruments for the assessment of Academic Writing and Speaking at Austrian university English departments. In G. Sigott (Ed.), Language testing in Austria: Taking stock (Vol. 40, pp. 325-346). Peter Lang. Language Testing and Evaluation

Berger, A., & Heaney, H. (2018). Extending CEFR descriptors for an analytic rating scale of academic writing at C1 to C2 - a stop-gap measure? In Der Gemeinsame Europäische Referenzrahmen für Sprachen und seine Adaption im Hochschulkontext: 6. Bremer Symposion zum Sprachenlernen und -lehren (pp. 106-117). AKS-Verlag. Fremdsprachen in Lehre und Forschung Vol. 51

Heaney, H. (2018). Operationalizing expeditious reading strategies in tests of English as a foreign language. In G. Sigott (Ed.), Language testing in Austria: Taking stock (Vol. 40, pp. 703-721). Peter Lang. Language Testing and Evaluation



Heaney, H. (2011). Does my text mean the same as yours? Cultural bias in reading tests. In M. B. Vukanovic, & I. Vodopija-Krstanovic (Eds.), The Global and Local Dimensions of English: Exploring Issues of Language and Culture (pp. 45-58). LIT Verlag.


Heaney, H. (2009). The role of memory while reading. In P. Antonitsch, A. Scherbantin, A. Theuermann, & V. Wakounig (Eds.), Zeit erinnern. Zum interdisziplinären und pädagogischen Umgang mit Zeit und Erinnerung (pp. 171-191). Drava Verlag.

Heaney, H. (2007). Reading for bachelors – mistressing reading skills. In E-M. Graf, & A. R. James (Eds.), English Studies in Flux. New Peaks, New Shores, New Crossings (pp. 127-137). Narr Verlag.

Curriculum vitae

2011 PhD (Dr.phil.) in Applied Linguistics (testing), University of Klagenfurt
1993 Master's degree (Mag.phil.) in English and French (teacher education), University of Klagenfurt
1988 B.A. (Honours) in German and French, University of Durham, Great Britain

Teaching

Current position: Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Vienna (teacher education; previously also linguistics and language competence)
Research and teaching post at the Department of English, University of Klagenfurt (teacher education, linguistics, language competence)
CLIL workshops (in-service teacher training)
ESP (Medical English, Business English, Export & Tourism, Business Administration, Media and Communications, Computing)Team teacher in CLIL programme at a grammar school in Klagenfurt (music, natural sciences)
Teacher of English and French at secondary school, Austria

Research interests

Teacher education: English as a Foreign Language
Language testing
Reading skills & strategies

CLIL (Hochschullehrgang)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

29 Nov 202330 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Windischgarsten)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

17 Oct 202318 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Consulting pre- and in-service teachers: how their perceptions of difficulty inform sustainable course design promoting LAL

Armin Berger (Speaker) & Helen Heaney (Speaker)

17 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service-training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

23 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Using the ADiBE video guides for in-service professional development of CLIL teachers

Tatjana Bacovsky (Speaker), Helen Heaney (Speaker) & Lena Katzinger (Speaker)

8 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The difficulty of understanding the links between language assessment, teaching, and learning: An empirical continuum of assessment-related competencies

Armin Berger (Speaker) & Helen Heaney (Speaker)

10 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service-training, BHS, Kuchl, online)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

24 Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


ADiBE. CLIL for all? The Austrian perspective

Tatjana Bacovsky (Speaker), Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger (Speaker), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Speaker), Helen Heaney (Speaker), Lena Katzinger (Speaker) & Ute Smit (Speaker)

18 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLILvoc follow-up

Helen Heaney (Speaker) & Keith Kelly (Speaker)

18 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Teaching reading (in-service training, online)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

15 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The ADiBE project on diversity in the CLIL classroom

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

16 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The "ideal" lesson plan

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

16 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Eisenstadt)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

16 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Pinkafeld)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

9 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Windischgarsten)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

5 Oct 20206 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Elmberg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

25 Jun 201926 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lift-up II (in-service training, NMS, Salzburg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

16 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Teaching reading (in-service training, Salzburg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

4 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Ursprung)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

21 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service-training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

19 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lift-up I (in-service training, NMS, Salzburg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

14 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL in action (FH Hagenberg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

21 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Ursprung)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

23 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Salzburg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

22 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Hallein)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

21 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

20 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Saalfelden)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

19 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The implications of a competence-based approach to the EFL classroom

Armin Berger (Speaker), Helen Heaney (Speaker) & Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher (Speaker)

15 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Teaching writing (in-service training, AHS, Salzburg)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

28 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Extending CEFR descriptors for an analytic rating scale of academic writing at C1 to C2 – a stop-gap measure?

Armin Berger (Speaker) & Helen Heaney (Speaker)

24 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

22 Feb 201723 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Saalfelden)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

20 Feb 201721 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Symposium: Competence-oriented foreign language education: making competence uptake visible through lesson study

Helen Heaney (Contributor)

3 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, AHS, St. Pölten)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

15 Mar 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

24 Feb 201625 Feb 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Wien)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

21 Oct 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Keep calm and carry on skimming: an exploration of expeditious reading strategies

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

17 Oct 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

25 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Countdown to the new standardized Matura: Assessing speaking

Armin Berger (Speaker) & Helen Heaney (Speaker)

26 Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Assessing writing (in-service training, BHS, Wien)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

21 Mar 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIL (in-service training, BHS, Kuchl)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

4 Mar 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Assessing writing (in-service training, Pinkafeld)

Helen Heaney (Speaker) & Armin Berger (Speaker)

24 Feb 201425 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Assessing writing (in-service training, Innsbruck)

Helen Heaney (Speaker) & Armin Berger (Speaker)

20 Feb 201421 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Assessing writing (in-service training, Hollabrunn)

Helen Heaney (Speaker) & Armin Berger (Speaker)

11 Nov 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Testing and investigating expeditious reading strategies

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

10 May 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


CLIl (in-service training, BHAK, Steyr)

Helen Heaney (Speaker)

31 Jan 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O1-29

T: +43-1-4277-42418

helen.heaney@univie.ac.at