Daniela Fernando M.A.

Education and Continuing education

Focus

Plurilingual education and methodology, blended learning, subject specific didactics and professional literacy

Experience

• Assistant to the Director
  University of Basel Language Centre, Switzerland
  07 / 2008 - 10 / 2012
• Lecturer of English and German in Higher Education
  IMC Fachhochschule Krems GmbH, AT; Vienna Business School, AT; Fachhochschulstudiengänge Burgenland GmbH, AT
  09 / 1999 - 06 / 2008

Education

• M.A. / Teaching Diploma in English/ American Studies and Russian
  Karl-Franzens-University Graz, AT
  09 / 1993 - 12 / 2000
• 1st Diploma Exam / Media Studies
  Karl-Franzens-University Graz, AT
  09 / 1993 - 01 / 1998

Continuing Education

• ZHAW Leadership Training
  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  06 / 2022
• Systemic Project Management
  Pädagogische Akademie Eggenberg Graz, AT
  06 / 2002

Membership of networks

Verband der Sprachenzentren an Schweizer Hochschulen

Publications

• Winkler, Oliver; Fernando, Daniela,

  2017.

  Kommunikationsunterricht im Ingenieurstudium - Quo vadis?

  .

  In:

  Kleinberger, Ulla; Perrin, Daniel, eds.,

  Doing applied linguistics : enabling transdisciplinary communication.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 1-8.

  De Gruyter Collection ; 1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4100

• Winkler, Oliver; Fernando, Daniela,

  2016.

  Szenariobasierter Kommunikationsunterricht an Fachhochschulen.

  Babylonia.

  2016(3), pp. 58-59.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4208

• Fernando, Daniela; Matic, Igor; Schnatz, Nina Isabelle,

  2022.

  Digital German assessment for Swiss engineering students.

  In:

  XVII CercleS International Conference "The Future of Language Education in an Increasingly Digital World: Embracing Change", Porto, Portugal, 15-17 September 2022.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Meyer, S., Gekeler, P., Manger, S., Urank, D. (2013). Plurilingualism, multilingualism and internationalisation in the European Higher Education Area: challenges and perspectives at a Swiss University. Language Learning in Higher Education, 2, 2: 405-425.

Meyer, S., Gekeler, P., Urank, D. (2013). Internationalisation, mobility and integration at Higher Education Institutions: promoting and researching pluri-and multilingualism at language centres. Babylonia, 02/13: 87-91.

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