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EDUCATION:

1995 - 2002         University of Salzburg

MA in English and French,

Including Secondary School Teacher Accreditation

1987 - 1995         BRG Hamerlingstraße Linz (Secondary School)

Reifeprüfung (A-Levels) Diploma

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

from 11/06         Freelance Language Trainer and Tutor

• In-company language training (German) with Lindner Schmidlin Facades Ltd in London
• Private language tuition (German) for adult learners

09/05 - 09/06 HAK/HAS RUDIGIERSTRASSE LINZ (Secondary School of Business Administration)

English and French Teacher

• Assumed all typical responsibilities of a classroom teacher including communication with parents, assessment of students, attending staff meetings.
• Accompanied my French class to a language study course in France.
• Set and evaluated final exams (English 3^rd grade).
• Taught a training class in French for 1^st grade students.

05/05 and 05/04  UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG, LANGUAGE CENTRE

Course Tutor

• Collaborated with colleagues to prepare and teach a 9-lesson in-service-training course on internet-based language teaching for University language teachers.
• Prepared and taught two 4-lesson courses on internet-based language teaching for students of Computer Science.

11/03 MTF-VERBAND AUSTRIA (Association for Medical Technical Professionals)

English Language Trainer

• Prepared and taught a two-day course in Medical English designed for adult medical professionals (intermediate level). Self-directed development of course design, content and material.

10/02 - 03/03 IUFM (Institut de Formation de Maîtres), COLMAR /FRANCE

Language Assistant (German as Foreign Language)

• Taught young adult students (beginner to intermediate level) who qualified to become primary school teachers.
• Developed learning material adapted to students’ needs.
• Held communication classes and prepared students for oral exams.

03/99 - 06/99 ESCOLA SECUNDARIA DAVID-MURAO FERREIRA, LISBON /PORTUGAL

Language Assistant (French, English, German)

• Taught communication-focused lessons in various language classes (beginner to intermediate level).
• Offered a course German as foreign language for teachers (beginner level).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

05/02 - 10/06     UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG, LANGUAGE CENTRE

Scientific collaborator in various research projects / material developer

05/02 - 10/06     Participated in a project to develop and produce the online learning magazine
“Net Horizon”.
[www.sprachenzentrum.com/horizon]

10/03 - 10/05     Participated in a project funded by the Austrian Ministry of Education to develop approaches and material for internet-based foreign language learning.

10/03 - 10/06     Participation in the EU project “DidacTIClang” (Comenius 2.1) to develop a teacher-training program for language teachers all over Europe.
[www.didacticlang.eu]

08/02                  Developed and produced an interactive learning unit for the French learning website „Canal Rêve”of the EU project „Babelnet”.
[http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/canalreve/mode/index.htm]

Publications Ollivier, Christian; Weiss, Gerda. “Aides à l’apprentissage et retour pédagogique dans les sites d’apprentissage des langues en ligne”. In: ASp 41/42, 2003.

Krautgartner, Klara.; Weiss, Gerda. “Communication Tools in the Foreign Language Classroom.” The 4th International ELT Research Conference. Çanakkale, Turkey. 26-28 May, 2005.

Brandauer, Eva ; Krautgartner, Klara ; Ollivier, Christian ; Strasser, Margareta; Weiss, Gerda. Internet-Fremdsprachendidaktik an und für Sprachenzentren. Austrian Ministry of Education (Ed.) Project report. In print.
[http://www.uni-salzburg.at/pls/portal/docs/1/288125.PDF]

SKILLS and ACHIEVEMENTS:

Languages German:  native language

English: fluent (written and spoken)

French: fluent (written and spoken)

Portuguese: intermediate (written and spoken)

IT skills Experienced in web-design and competent with related software
(Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop)

Competent with MS Word, MS PowerPoint and authoring software (Hot Potatoes)

Awards May 2004 - L@rnie Award awarded by the Austrian Ministry of Education for the online learning magazine “NetHorizon”.

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