Dr Edit Willcox-Ficzere

• Academic Reading;
• Academic Writing;
• Core Language Skills;
• Language Teaching:
• Learning and Creativity

My main research interest is L2 pragmatics and the assessment of ESL learners’ pragmatic competence. My PhD research focused on assessing ESL learners’ pragmatic competence at B2-C2 levels.

• Conference presenter: BAELc5 University of Bonn, Germany. Presentation topic: Assessing EFL learners’ pragmatic competence in speaking: Some pragmatic features CEFR B2 level learners display in speech
• Presenter at an Intercultural Communication Conference organised by University of Latvia (title: Usefulness of Teaching Politeness Strategies in English Language Classrooms); May 2013
• Presenter at the BAELc3 conference organised by University of Bonn (title: Comparing pragmatic strategies in letters of complaint and using this information for teaching purposes.); May 2014.
• Poster presentation at the Language Testing Forum organised by University of Southampton (title: How well do different task formats elicit L2 learners’ pragmatic competence?); November 2014.
• Presenter at the CRELLA (University of Bedfordshire) winter research seminar (title: How well do different task formats elicit L2 learners’ pragmatic competence?); December 2014
• Presenter at the ALTE conference (Bologna, Italy), May 2017. (Title: Assessing the pragmatic competence of EFL learners at B2-C2 levels.)
• Presenter at BAELc6 conference (University of Bonn, Germany), May 2017. (Title: Assessing the pragmatic competence of EFL learners in speaking at B2-C2 levels.
• Presenter at the EALTA conference (Paris, France), June 2017. (Title: Assessing the pragmatic competence of ESL learners at B2-C2 levels.)
• Presenter at the INPRA conference (Nicosia, Cyprus), June 2018. (Title: An investigation into assessing the pragmatic competence of ESL learners at B2-C2 levels.)
• Presenter at the EALTA conference (Dublin, Ireland), June 2019. (Title: Assessing ESL learners’ pragmatic competence at CEFR B2-C2 levels)