Dr. Elisabeth Barakos

Lehrbeauftragte
Interkulturelle Bildungsforschung
Anschrift
Sprechzeiten
- nach Vereinbarung
Kontakt
Schwerpunkte
- Projekt SpraBÜ (Sprachliche Bildung am Übergang von Vorbereitungsklasse in Regelklasse in der Sekundarstufe I)
Gremientätigkeit, Mitgliedschaften, Academic Service
Gremienarbeit und Services
2017-present BAAL Language Policy Special Interest Group (SIG) co-founder and co-convenor since 2017, www.langpol.ac.uk
2018-2019 External Examiner of Undergraduate Applied Linguistics and Communication Programme, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
2017-2019 Aston University English Language Placement Coordinator for international study abroad, work placements and internships
2015-2018 External Examiner of PhD dissertations: University of Naples; University of Melbourne
2013-2015 Treasurer and Board Member of VERBAL (Austrian Association of Applied Linguistics)
Gutachtertätigkeit
- Book prizes: BAAL book prize
- Journals: Journal of Language and Politics; Critical Discourse Studies; Journal of Language Policy; Language in Society; Journal of Sociolinguistics; Applied Linguistics; Language and Intercultural Communication; Tesol Quarterly; International Journal of Multilingualism; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; Multilingual; Language, Culture and Society;
- Publishers: Palgrave, Wiley, Springer, Multilingual Matters
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN
- AAA (American Anthropological Association)
- BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics)
- EDiSO (Iberian Association of Discourse in Society)
- EERA (European Educational Research Association)
- GAL (German Association for Applied Linguistics)
- VERBAL (Austrian Association for Applied Linguistics)
- WISERD (The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods)
Interviews, Medien, Blogs
- 2021 [Digital international preparatory classes in Germany]. Digital Internationale Vorbereitungsklassen. Dialogue with Science Workshop for the Hamburg State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development, 25 May 2021 (online). https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-die-fakultaet/aktuell-2021/21-05-26-li-forum-nachbericht.html
- 2021 [Digital, multilingual and in transition. International Preparatory Classes in Pandemic Times] Digital, vielsprachig und im Übergang. Internationale Vorbereitungsklassen in Zeiten der Pandemie. Interview in German for the series ‘Research Project of the Month’, University of Hamburg, Germany, 25 May 2021. https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/forschungsprojekt-des-monats/17-fpdm-mai.html
- 2021 Language Policy in Business. Author interview on monograph in CaMP (Communication, Media and Performance) Anthropology Blog, 21 May 2021. https://campanthropology.org/2021/05/24/elisabeth-barakos-language-policy-in-business/
- 2021 Learning a Language is not always a choice. Financial Times Letter to the Editor, 7/05/2021. https://www.ft.com/content/8339651f-4154-4b85-9bd3-1b56376b42a6
- 2020 Publishing a PhD thesis as a monograph. Twitter event for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics), 10/03/2020
- 2020 Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures. Language on the Move Blog, May 25, 2020. https://www.languageonthemove.com/recent-arrival-migrant-students-during-the-covid-19-school-closures/
- 2020 [Learning German under difficult conditions. Research on International Preparatory Classes in Times of Corona] Deutsch lernen unter erschwerten Bedingungen. Forschung zu Internationalen Vorbereitungsklassen in Zeiten von Corona. Interview in German, The University of Hamburg, May 11, 2020
- 2018 Welsh Language Policy in the Workplace. Research featured in the North Wales Regional Skills and Employment Plan, 2018
- 2015 [How to promote bilingualism in the world of work] Wie wird Zweisprachigkeit in der Arbeitswelt vermarktet? Schrödingers Katze / Schrödinger’s Cat (Austrian Science Blog), October 21, 2015. https://www.schroedingerskatze.at/junge-forschung-im-wordrap-13/
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildung
- Elite Multilingualism
- Soziolinguistik
- Diskursanalyse
- Sprachenpolitik
- Minderheitensprachen
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt "Neu zugewanderte Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Sekundarstufe I. Eine qualitative Studie über sprachliche Bildung am Übergang von Vorbereitungsklassen in Regelklassen" (65%), gefördert vom DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), (2020-2023)
- International Collaborator im Projekt "Linguistic Equality in Political Transitions" in Kanada, Katalonien und Wales, gefördert vom SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019-2024)
Lebenslauf
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 01/2020 – 01/2023 Postdoctoral Researcher in Language Education, Universität Hamburg
- 09/2019 – 08/2021 Research Fellow in Applied Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham
- 09/2015 – 08/2019 Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham
- 03/2015 – 08/2015 External Lecturer in English Linguistics, Universität Wien
- 10/2009 – 08/2015 Research and Teaching Assistant, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
- 2009 – 2014 Ph.D. in English Linguistics (with distinction), Universität Wien
- 2008 – 2009 Graduate Teacher Program, CILT (The National Centre for Languages), London
- Teaching Qualification for Modern Foreign Languages (German and Spanish) in England und Wales
- 2002 – 2007 Mag. phil. (equivalent to MA) in English and Spanish Linguistics, Universität Wien
- Lehramtsstudium Englisch und Spanisch
FURTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2008 – 2009 Secondary School Teacher of German and Spanish, UK
- 2008 – 2008 Traineeship, Department for Regional and Minority Language Policy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
- 2007 – 2008 SPIDI Language Institute, Freelance Consultant and Trainer for Business and Legal English, Wien
Publikationen
AUTHORED BOOK
2020 Barakos, E. Language policy in business: Discourse, ideology and practice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Series).
Reviewed in: Journal of Sociolinguistics (2021); Journal of Language and Politics (2021)
CO-EDITED BOOK
2016 Barakos, E. & Unger, J.W. (eds.). Discursive approaches to language policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reviewed in: Journal of Language Policy (2019)
REREREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
2021 Barakos, E. Language work and affect in adult language education. Journal of Sociolinguistics. Online first. DOI 10.1111/josl.12517.
2021 Plöger, S. & Barakos, E. Researching linguistic transitions of newly arrived students in Germany: Insights from Institutional Ethnography and Reflexive Grounded Theory. Ethnography & Education 16/4: 402-419.
2020 Bonacina-Pugh, F., Barakos, E. & Q. Chen. Language policy in the internationalisation of Higher Education in Anglophone countries: The interplay between language policy as ‘text’, ‘discourse’ and ‘practice’. Applied Linguistics Review. DOI 000010151520190148.
2020 Barakos, E. Linguistic and social justice: towards a debate of intersections and disjuncture. Journal of Sociolinguistics 24/2: 265-277.
2019 Barakos, E. & Selleck, C. Elite Multilingualism. Discourses, practices, and debate. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40/5: 367-374.
2018 Barakos, E. Multilingual language trainers as language workers. A discourse-ethnographic perspective. Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication 19/2: 184-200.
2016 Barakos, E. Language policy and governmentality in businesses in Wales: a continuum of empowerment and regulation. In Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 35/4: 361-391.
2020 Dlaske, K., Barakos, E., Motobayashi, K. & McLaughlin. Introduction: Languaging the worker: Globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces. In Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 35/4: 345-359.
2012 Barakos, E. Language policy and planning in urban professional settings: bilingualism in Cardiff businesses. In Current Issues in Language Planning 13/3: 167-186.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
In Press Barakos, E. Negotiating multilingualism and interculturality in an elite language education company. In Fielding R. & Giampapa, F. (eds.). Multilingualism, Identity and Interculturality in Education: International Perspectives. Springer.
2021 Barakos, E. and Plöger, S. [Scientific, political and educational policy demands on language teaching in International Preparatory Classes during pandemic times]. Wissenschaftliche, bildungspolitische und schulpraktische Ansprüche an Sprachunterricht in Internationalen Vorbereitungsklassen zu Pandemiezeiten. In Gamper, J.; Hövelbrinks, B. & Schlauch; J. (Eds.). Lockdown, Homeschooling und Social Distancing – der Zweitspracherwerb unter akutveränderten Bedingungen der COVID-19-Pandemie. Tübingen: Narr. (in German) https://elibrary.narr.digital/book/10.24053/9783823394945
2019 Selleck, C. and Barakos, E. Elite multilingualism. In Tusting, K. (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. London: Routledge, pp. 286-298.
2018 Barakos, E. Managing, interpreting and negotiating corporate bilingualism in Wales. In Nekvapil, J. & Sherman, T. (eds.). English in Business and Commerce: Interactions and Policies. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 73-95.
2016 Barakos, E. Language policy and critical discourse studies: towards an integrated approach. In Barakos, E. & Unger, J.W. (eds.). Discursive approaches to language policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 23-49.
2016 Barakos, E. & Unger, J.W. Introduction: why are discursive approaches to language policy necessary? In Barakos, E. & Unger, J.W. (eds.). Discursive approaches to language policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 23-49.
2016 Barakos, E. 2016. Introduction to part III. Empirical applications of discursive approaches to language policy. In Barakos, E. & Unger, J.W. (eds.). Discursive approaches to language policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 151-157.
ENCYCLOPEDIC ARTICLES
2020 Barakos, E. Modernity and tradition. In Stanlaw, J. (ed.). The International Encyclopaedia of Linguistic Anthropology. New York: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0277
SPECIAL ISSUES EDITED
2019 Barakos, E. & Selleck, C. (eds.). Elite Multilingualism. Discourses, practices, and debate. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 40/5: 367-374.
BOOK REVIEWS
2019 Barakos, E. Review of Amit, A. 2014. Regional Language Policies in France during World War II. Journal of Language and Politics 18/3: 467-470.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
n.d. Selleck, C. & Barakos, E. (accepted pending minor revisions). Reflexive bilingualism. Special Issue in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
n.d. Barakos, E. [Digital, multilingual and in transition. International Preparatory Classes in Pandemic Times] Digital, mehrsprachig und im Übergang. Internationale Vorbereitungsklassen in Zeiten der Pandemie. In Budde, J.; Lengyel, D.; Claus, C.; Schroedler, T.; Böning, C.; Weuster; N. (Eds.). Schule in Distanz – Kindheit in Krise. Barbara Budrich. (in German).
n.d. Barakos, E. Pajaro, V. & Bonnin, J.E. Discourse. In Del Percio, A. & Flubacher, M. Book for Monica Heller – Critical sociolinguistic dialogues: The constitution of a field. London: Bloomsbury.
n.d. Barakos, E. Review of Dollinger, Stefan. 2021. [Austrian German or German in Austria? Identities in the 21st Century] Österreichisches Deutsch oder Deutsch in Österreich? Identitäten im 21. Jahrhundert. 3rd ed. Vienna, Hamburg: new academic press. Invited review for Journal of Multilingualism.