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AAU1/...Department of English2/Team3/Mag. Dr. Nikola Dobric M.A.

Mag. Dr. Nikola Dobric M.A.

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  • Angewandte Statistik, Sozialstatistik
  • Applied linguistics
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  • Digital humanities
  • Educational research
  • Lexicography
  • Linguistik
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Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Teaching linguistics and conducting (applied) linguistic research (langage testing and corpus linguistics) at the University of Novi Sad (till 2009) and Universität Klagenfurt (currently, since 2010). Also a long-time expert consultant for the European Commission and the EU Parliament.

Education

  • Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in Applied Linguistics
  • Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Corpus Linguistics
  • Master degree (MA) in Digital Humanities
  • Teaching degree (Mag. Phil.) for English
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Projects
  • 01/2018 - 12/2019 Assessing High-Stakes Writing Performances - An Austrian-Slovenian Study
  • 08/2011 - 02/2014 Computer Aided Sense Identification System Version 1.2 - CASIS 1.2
  • 09/2011 - 03/2014 Corpus of Advanced Academic Writing in L2 in Austria - CAARLLA
  • 01/2021 - 10/2022 Developing a CEFR-linked calibrated C-test item bank for English (Phase 1)
  • 12/2016 - 12/2017 Metaphors for the „Commons“ in the media - Value-based messages about Environmental Goods (air, water and soil) in the media and how they change as they travel in the public sphere
Selected Publications
  • 2023
  • Nikola Dobric: Effects of errors on ratings of writing performances. Assessing Writing, Elsevier, 59, 2023,

  • Nikola Dobric: Towards a Classification of Text Features Highly Indicative of Context-appropriate L2 Writing Competence . System, Elsevier, 119, Amsterdam, Oxford, Cambridge, 2023,

  • 2021
  • Nikola Dobric, Günther Sigott, Gašper Ilc, Vesna Lasovic, Hermann Cesnik, Andrej Stopar: Errors as Indicators of Writing Task Difficulty at the Slovene General Matura in English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Wiley Online Library, 31, 2021, S. 1 - 17.

  • 2014
  • Nikola Dobric, Günther Sigott: Towards an Error Taxonomy for Student Writing. Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht , Sprachenzentrum der TU Darmstadt, 19, Darmstadt, 2014, S. 111 - 118.

Selected Events
  • 2018
  • Symposium Language Testing in Austria: Towards a Research Agenda
    Klagenfurt, 19.10.2018
  • 2015
  • 6th Alpen Adria Anglistics ConferenceCrossing Borders and Challenging Boundaries – Alps-Adriatic Studies in Anglistics
    Klagenfurt, 25.09.2015
  • 2014
  • CALK 2014
    Klagenfurt, 25.09.2014
Selected Lectures
  • 2017
  • Assessing High‐Stakes Writing Performances
    Bremen, 15.06.2017
  • 2015
  • Language Testing - Measurements and Evaluation
    Gastvortrag
    Belgrad, 30.03.2015
  • 2014
  • Error Annotation in Learner Corpora
    Erasmus Austausch
    Ljubljana, 18.11.2014
  • Contemporary Corpus Linguistics: Corpus-based Semantics
    Contemporary Corpus Linguistics: Corpus-based Semantics
    University of Belgrade, 22.04.2014
Awards
  • Förderpreis des Forschungsclusters Bildungsforschung für 2014
  • Innovationspreis 2016
Functions
  • 10/2014 - - 12/2017 Vorsitzende/r des Editorial Boards bei Colloquium - New Philologies
  • 02/2016 - - - 12/2017 Gutachter/in bei Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
  • 05/2018 Gutachter/in bei Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services
  • 06/2018 Gutachter/in bei Committee on Culture and Education
  • 09/2018 Mitglied bei European Science Foundation (ESF)

Vice Chair of Evaluation Committee - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)                        

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