Teaching linguistics and conducting (applied) linguistic research

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1 Short CV Personal information First name / Surname Nikola Dobrić Address Mozartstrasse 42, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria Telephone +43(0) Homepage Nikola.Dobric@aau.at Nationality Serbian Date of birth Academic Positions Dates March 2010 currently Occupation or position Universitätsassistent Teaching linguistics and conducting (applied) linguistic research Employer Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria Dates Winter semester 2014 Occupation or position Guest lecturer (Erasmus) Teaching within different courses (corpus linguistics, learner corpus annotation - MA curriculum) Employer English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Dates Winter semester 2013 Occupation or position Guest lecturer Teaching a course Corpus Linguistics (MA curriculum) Employer English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Dates Winter semester 2014 Occupation or position Guest lecturer Teaching a course Corpus Linguistics (MA curriculum) Employer English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

2 Other work experience Dates November 2007 November 2009 Occupation or position Foreign Language Lecturer Teaching Business English (ESP) at a tertiary level Employer Higher business School of Professional Studies, Vladimira Perica 4, Novi Sad, Serbia Business College (Fachhochschule) BA level of education Dates September 2007 February 2010 Occupation or position EFL Teacher Teaching English at higher levels of the CEFR Employer Foreign Languages Centre Lingua, Železnicka 34, Novi Sad, Serbia EFL Training and Translation Dates September 2008 January 2013 Occupation or position Employer Freelance translator CAT translation services CEET Language Solutions, The Check Republic International Translation Agency Dates May 2008 February 2010 Occupation or position Online mentor Tracking and supervising online distance studies in English Employer Higher Business School Doba, Maribor, Slovenia Business College (Fachhochschule) BA level of education Dates September 2004 November 2007

3 Occupation or position English Language Teacher Name and address of employer Teaching English in Primary Education Academic degrees, Primary School (Volksschule) Ivo Lola Ribar, Marsala Tita 48, Plavna, Serbia Dates September 2014 in progress Habilitation (Post-doc Project) Title of project Non-norm Adequate Features and Assessment of Writing A Corpus-based Study *(continuation of studies) Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Language Teaching, Language Acquisition, Language Testing, Didactics, and Psychometrics Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt The Language Testing Center, Klagenfurt Dates March 2010 September 2012 Dr. phil (Ph.D.) in Linguistics * graduation with distinction Title of project Can You Really Know a Word by the Company It Keeps? An Investigation into the Contextual Influence on Aspects of Polysemy (supervisors: Allan Richard James & Veronica Zima-Smith) *(start of PhD studies) * published as: The Theory and Practice of Corpus-based Semantics, (2013), AAA Series, Gunter Narr Verlag: Tübingen. Lexicography, Lexical Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Dates November 2009 March 2010 Dr. phil (Ph.D.) in Linguistics Lexicography, Lexical Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

4 Dates October 2007 September 2008 MA in Corpus Linguistics * graduation with distinction Title of project Discrimination Discourse in English and Serbian Corpus Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and DA Faculty of Philosophy, English Department, University of Novi Sad Dates October 2001 April 2006 BA (Diploma/Mag.) in English Language and Linguistics English Linguistics, Literature, and Teaching Methodology English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad Dates May 2014 Training Running Erasmus+ Joint Degrees (MA&PhDs) INTERuv Project, The Hague, Netherlands Dates November 2010 Training and Certificate Using the statistical package SPSS ZID, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Dates October 2010 Training and Certificate Managing the webpage design and organization system at the university ZID, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Dates June 2010 Nachweis Wissenschaftlicher Certificate

5 Level in national or international classification Principal subjects/occupational organisation providing Learning about the crucial skills for scientific workers FA Personalentwicklung, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Dates June 2008 CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English) Language Certificate English Language Competence Cambridge University, ESOL Examinations, British Council, London C2/ Highest Level of the Common European Framework Dates June 2008 FTBE LCCI First Certificate for Teachers of Business English Business English Competence and Teaching Methodology London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, London Dates May 2008 Training and Certificate Academic and administrative functions E-learning mentorship, tracking competence, and teaching methodology Higher Business School Doba, Maribor, Slovenia Dates February 2014 currently Function performed Co-founder, Chief Editor, and Journal Manager of Colloquim Starting and running a scientific journal, managing academic and technical aspects Dates July 2011 currently Function performed Studienprogramleiter (Director of Studies)

6 Organizing courses and course instructors; balancing the teaching budget; responsible for the implementation of the BA and MA; admission of international students and the recognition of courses Dates January 2014 October 2014 Function performed Initiative Coordinator of the Klagenfurt Open Access Initiative Raising awareness about the importance of Open Access and organizing the setup of an Open Access University Press Dates November 2013 currently Function performed Curricula Committee (CuKo) for English and American Studies Participating in the creation and changes of all study programs including work on the new Teacher Training (Lehramt Neu) for English Dates March 2010 currently Function performed Coordinator of international cooperation Coordinating student and staff exchanges with nine Erasmus and Joint-study International Universities (most prominently Australian and West Balkan Universities) Dates February 2015 Function performed External contributor in the Quality Management and Audit of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt as part of the Fokusgruppe Internationales Providing feedback about the quality of the international cooperation, the administration of it, and the strategy defined for the future Dates November 2012 November 2013 Function performed KUWI Research Key User Managing research visibility of the Department Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Dates January 2011 September 2013 Function performed Public Spokesperson Publicity-related communication; maintaining the departmental web page; designing and releasing advertising material Dates March 2010 December 2013

7 Function performed The ThinkTank newsletter founder and coeditor Editing the newsletter of the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Dates January 2013 currently Function performed Scholarly Board member of Metodicki vidici Advising the journal in terms of applied linguistics, with a particular focus on learner corpora and language testing Awards Dates December 2014 Award Förderpreis der Bildungsforschung 2014 (Award for Educational Research) Issuing organization Fachübergreifenden Forschungsclusters Bildung, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Memberships Dates October 2014 currently Organization Learner Corpus Association Dates May 2012 currently Organization South East Applied Linguistics (SEAL) Research Group co-founder Dates January 2011 currently Organization Austrian Association of University Teachers (AAUTE) Dates January 2011 currently Organization The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)

8 Personal skills and competences Mother tongue(s) Other language(s) Social skills and competences Organisational skills and competences Technical skills and competences Computer skills and competences Serbian (BCS) English, German Seven years of experience in teaching at a university tertiary level; working on interdisciplinary research; experience in managing both practical and scientific aspects of linguistic projects; experience in teaching small and large lecture groups of students and supervising their work; experience in organizing and running curricula; very extrovert, good people skills and thriving under pressure; rather knowledgeable in history, economy, literature, politics and medical developments. Aadministrative work related to university environment; organizing teaching at departmental level (Director of Studies); Lehramt, BA, and MA curricula creation; project management; spearheading initiatives (Open Access); journal management; journal editing; reviewing and refereeing; significant translation experience Text mining; corpus tools (concordancers); CAT tools (Trados, QMemo, Sisulizer); statistical software (R, SPSS); web design tools (RedDot) Full Windows environment (Power Point, Word, Internet Explorer, Excel, Corel Draw, AdobeInDesign CS4); E-learning software (Moodle, Blackboard); corpus annotation software (taggers and parsers) Driving licence B class (general)