Biography

Andrea Dlaska is the University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching. She is Professor of Language Studies in the School of English and Languages and teaches modules on intercultural communication, migration and multiculturalism. Before she came to Surrey, she was Director of the joint Language Centre of the University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. In previous positions, she worked at Warwick University as Lecturer in German and at Loughborough University as German Tutor.

Research Interests

Andrea's research interests include:

• Teaching and learning languages in higher education
• Teacher training
• Language testing
• Intercultural communication
• Internationalisation of higher education
• Migration and identity

Her most recent publications focus on the evaluation of formative assessments for language learners and the self-assessment of pronunciation.

Publications

2012 “The role of foreign language programmes in internationalising learning and teaching in higher education”. Teaching in Higher Education, DOI:10.1080/13562517.2012.696538

In press “From politics to policy: rethinking the relationship between language centres and Modern Foreign Language departments”. Language Learning in Higher Education, 1.

In press with C. Krekeler  “Evaluating and improving informal assessment in the university language classroom”. Language Learning in Higher Education, 1.

2009 with C. Krekeler. Sprachtests. Leistungsbeurteilungen im Fremdsprachenunterricht evaluieren und verbessern. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.

2008 with C. Krekeler. "Self-assessment of pronunciation". In System 36 (2008) 506–516.

2006 with C. Krekeler. "Alternative Testverfahren für Deutsch als Zweitsprache". In Deutsch als Zweitsprache 4/2006, pp. 11-18.

2004 "How the West was lost: Apocalyptic visions of multicultural America in Bharati Mukherjee's Leave it to me." In Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Apocalypse: Utopia and Dystopia in American Culture. Ed. Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam VU University Press, 239-248.

2003 "Language learning in the university: creating content and community in non-specialist programmes". Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 8, No. 1, 103-116.

2003 "Highlighting the cultural dimension in foreign language teacher education". Proceedings of the 8th Symposium of the Institute for Applied Language Studies. In Gollin, J., G. Ferguson & H. Trappes-Lomax (eds.) (2003) Symposium for
Language Teacher Educators. Papers from three IALS Symposia: Politics, Policy and Culture in Language Teacher Education (2000), Autonomy in Language Teacher Education (2001), Teaching Practice in Language Teacher Education (2002), CD-ROM. IALS, University of Edinburgh.

2002 "Sites of Construction: Language Learning, Multimedia, and the International Engineer". Computers & Education Vol. 39, No. 2, 129-143.

2000 "Integrating culture and language learning in institution-wide language programmes". Language, Culture and Curriculum Vol. 13, No. 3, 247-263.

2000 "The perils of visibility: resisting the violence of representation in Bharati Mukherjee's multicultural America". In Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism. Eds. S. Bahn and M. Klarer. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 67-78.

1999 "Suggestions for a subject-specific approach in teaching foreign languages to engineering and science students". System Vol. 27, 401-417.

1999 Ways of Belonging: The Making of New Americans in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee. Vienna: Braumüller University Publishers.

Translations

Translation of the unpublished diaries of psychoanalyst Karen Horney for The Unknown Karen Horney (2000), Ed. B. Paris. New Haven & London: Yale UP.

Horney, Karen (1991) "The Goals of Analytic Therapy". Transl. A. Dlaska, ed. B. Paris. In The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 51, No. 3, 219-226.

Teaching

LIN  Intercultural Communication lecture (level 2)

LIN Multicultural Societies (level 3)

Departmental Duties

Andrea is professor of Language Studies and teaches on the undergraduate degree pathways.