Barbara Seidlhofer is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and currently Head of Department of English Studies (University of Vienna).

Her teaching and research focus is on discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and phonology, in particular in their application to language teacher education.

Her publications include the books Pronunciation (with C. Dalton), Oxford University Press 1994; Approaches to Summarization: Discourse Analysis and Language Education, Tübingen: Narr 1995; Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics, co-edited with G. Cook, Oxford University Press 1995; Language Policy and Language Education in Emerging Nations, co-edited with R. de Beaugrande and M. Grosman, Ablex 1998, Controversies in Applied Linguistics, Oxford University Press 2003, and Understanding English as a Lingua Franca, Oxford University Press 2011.

She was editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell) from 2004 to 2008 and has recently founded the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca (De Gruyter Mouton), which she edits with Jennifer Jenkins and Anna Mauranen.

Barbara Seidlhofer is the founding director of VOICE.

E-mail: barbara.seidlhofer@univie.ac.at

Phone: +43-1-4277 42442

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