Dorte Albrechtsen

Primary fields of research

• Language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy
• Written production in English as a foreign language
• Writing processes in L2 (English) and L1 (Danish)
• Discourse analysis of student texts
• Focus on form during the writing process

Current research

• Development of the writing process over time. Analyses of the writing processes of high school students in L2 and L1
• The relationship between writing processes and the written products

Teaching

Language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy

• productive and receptive processes
• the discourse level in students’ oral and written communication
• communicative language teaching and focus on form
• foreign language acquisition and instruction

Office hours: Thursday 11-12

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Education and degrees

• Ph.D. in foreign language pedagogy, University of Copenhagen, 1993
• BA in German studies, University of Copenhagen, 1986
• Teacher training in English, Det frie Gymnasium, Copenhagen, 1981
• MA in English studies, University of Copenhagen, 1980

Employment history

• Associate professor in Modern English Language with a focus on Foreign Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (previously the Department of English), University of Copenhagen, 1998 -
• Associate professor in English at the Department of Humanities, The Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, 1997-98
• Assistant professor in English at the Department of Humanities, The Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, 1994-97
• Teaching assistant at the Department of English, University of Copenhagen. Part time teacher at the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies. 1990-94.
• Ph.D. studies at the English Department, University of Copenhagen, 1987-89
• Teaching assistant at the English Department, University of Copenhagen, 1980-87.
• High school teacher at Det Frie Gymnasium, 1986-87 and 1982-83

Administrative positions

• Acting Head of Department, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, July 2011- February 2013.
• Deputy Head of Department, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2009 - 2011
• Head of Studies for English, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2005-2007
• Member of the Academic Council, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, 2004-2006
• Member of the board at the Centre of Internationalization and Parallel Language Use, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2008-2011
• Member of the group of professional advisors, at the Centre of Internationalization and Parallel Language Use, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2008 -
• Coordinator of the Master of Language Education, the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, 2009 -
• Member of the group of professional advisors for the Master of Language Education, the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies 2003 -
• Member of the board of the Ph.D. research programme LINKUA, at the Faculty of Humanities, UCPH, 2010 -2012

Research projects and editorial work

• One of three researchers responsible for the research project Processses in Writing and Vocabulary Acquisition funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, 2000-2004
• Active member of the Nordic project 'NORDSKRIV', 1986-89
• Affiliated to the research project Project in Foreign Language Pedagogy (PIF), English Department, UCPH, 1976-80.
• Former co-editor of the journal Sprogforum.
• Co-editor of the Journal Angles on the English-Speaking World, 2000-2010