A FWF funded project at University of Vienna, 2022 – 2026
Partners
Franziska Haberler, MA
During her Master in English, German as a Foreign/Second Language and Texttechnology, Franziska spent some terms abroad in Santiago de Chile and Brussels. She then moved to Berlin to start on her PhD which she hasn’t finished yet due to her four children that might have had more urgent needs. She then worked in Berlin, Graz and Zürich mainly with refugees and expats in second language acquisition before she left land altogether to circumnavigate on a catamaran with her family from 2015-2019. When she came back she started as a teacher at a Middleschool in Vienna. She also writes for Schulgschichtn.com and develops AI learning units for lörn.at. Due to her travels her children have attended school in different countries like Jamaica, Ecuador and Thailand. Her view on multilingualism in the classroom is based on her own experiences and expectations.
Kornelia Snizek
Kornelia, born in Hungary in 1977, graduated from the University of Miskolc’s Faculty of Humanities with a degree in English in 1998. Following her graduation, she spent three years teaching at a primary school, collaborating with the British Council. In 2001, Kornelia married her Austrian husband and relocated to Austria. Initially unable to teach due to her diploma not being recognized, she worked at the airport before becoming a regional representative for a Spanish company. Her son was born in 2004. In 2011, Kornelia successfully had her diploma recognized and completed an additional course at the Vienna College of Education. For the past 11 years, she has been teaching English in Vienna.
Günes Yildiz, BA, BEd, MA
Having previously studied Politics (BA) and International Law (MA) at SOAS (University of London) and worked in the field of media and NGOs, Günes is a second-career English teacher in a highly diverse middle school, who is pursuing her Master in Education for English and History at the University of Vienna. Being multilingual herself, Günes is committed to using students’ multilingualism as a resource in her classroom. She was instrumental in setting up the Udele project and worked with the Udele team on an action research cycle involving developing and trialing multilingual materials in her classroom.
Johanna Scollard
Johanna Scollard is a teacher of English and other subjects in a Viennese Middle School. She studied English and History at the University of Vienna. One of her favorite aspects about teaching is to be surrounded by so many children with diverse backgrounds and languages.