Univ. Prof., English Department Univ. Vienna

is professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Her research and teaching focus on the conceptualization, description, and theoretical implications of English as a lingua franca interaction and its applied linguistic significance for ‘real world’ concerns, the nature of transcultural communication, and sociolinguistics and pragmatics more generally. Barbara Seidlhofer is the founding director of the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and author of Understanding English as a Lingua Franca (Oxford University Press). She is past editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and founding editor and past editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca.

Research interests

• Lingua franca communication in sign and spoken language: International Sign / cross-signing /ELF
• Multilingualism / translanguaging / multimodality
• Negotiation and establishment of shared resources in transcultural communication

PhD student, English Department Univ. Vienna
Lecturer in Linguistics and English language competence, Univ. Vienna
Teaching degree English & Russian, Univ. Vienna

Research interests

• ELF in teaching and teacher education
• Attitudes and beliefs of pre-service teachers
• Teacher cognition

Svitlana Klötzl

PhD in English Linguistics, Univ. Vienna

Research interests

• Discourse analysis
• Applied linguistics
• Interpersonal/intercultural communication
• Private couple interaction

Eva Knechtelsdorfer

PhD Student, English Department Univ. Vienna
Pre-Doc position at Teacher Training College Vienna
Teaching Degree English & Italian, Univ. Vienna

Research interests

• ELF and language assessment
• Formative Assessment
• Implications of ELF communication for language teaching

Privatdozentin, University of Vienna
Elise-Richter Research Fellow, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) at Austrian Academy of Sciences
Principal investigator: "English as a lingua franca in Transient International Groups (TIGs)" (2019-2022, FWF V747)
Project leader: "Update of infrastructure and integration of VOICE into CLARIAH-AT" (2020; Austrian Academy of Sciences & Univ. of Vienna)

Research interests

• English as a lingua franca (ELF) and Transient International Groups (TIGs)
• Spoken language, interaction and micro-diachronic analysis
• Transcultural communication, multilingualism and transient language contact
• Variation, linguistic group development and real-time change
• (Qualitative) Corpus linguistics and digital humanities
• Pragmatics and discourse analysis
• Linguistic creativity (metaphor, idiom variation, lexical creativity)
• Applied linguistics, teacher education and professional communication

Research interests

• ELF research and its implications for conceptualizing 'agency', 'communicative success', & 'communicative competence'
• Existential and ethical questions in language use and education
• Participatory approaches for studying lived ethics and experience
• Subjectification and dispositives linked with the capability to language

Research interests

• (Pragmatic) corpus annotation
• Implications of ELF research for language pedagogy and teacher education
• Language (education) policy

PhD in English Linguistics, Univ. Vienna
Post-Doc Lecturer at University of Passau
Formerly Pre-Doc positions at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Economics and Business
Teaching degree English & French, Univ. Vienna

Research interests 

• Intelligibility in ELF communication
• Co(n)textual effects on speech perception
• ELF and English pronunciation teaching
• Quantitative and experimental linguistics

Phd student, English Department Univ. Vienna
Uni:Docs Scholarship 
MA in English Linguistics, Univ. Vienna

Research interests

• Accommodation and alignment processes in English as a lingua franca communication
• Quantitative corpus analysis of spoken language data
• Lexical and constructional predictability in spoken language
• Language variation and change
• Language evolution (particularly in relation to historical phonology and morphology)

Hon.Prof, English Department Univ. Vienna

Research interests

• The pragmatics of ELF communication and its relevance to the pedagogy of English language teaching and other areas of applied linguistics.

Berat Başer

Phd student, English Department Univ. Vienna
English Language Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Mag.phil English Linguistics, Univ. Vienna

Research interests

• Negotiating interpersonal relations in business English as a lingua franca interactions
• Pedagogical implications of English as a lingua franca
• Corpus linguistics (qualitative)