Slobodanka Dimova

Short presentation

Primary research areas

• Oral language test development and validation
• Characteristics of oral fluency
• Language tests as policy tools
• Effects of English medium instruction (EMI) on teaching and learning

Current research

• Relationships between language policy and language testing
• Validation of the Test of Oral English Proficiency for Academic Staff (TOEPAS)
• Effects of English-medium instruction (EMI) on teaching and learning in higher education
• Use of standardized language proficiency test scores for college admission

Teaching

Foreign and second language acqusition and language pedagogy. Courses in: 

• language testing and assessment
• socio-pragmatic and cognitive aspects of oral language production
• quantitatvie and qualitative research methods
• Danish as a second language acquisition 

Supervision

I welcome Master's and Ph.D. students with interests in the following research areas:

Foreign and second language acquisition and pedagogy; language testing and assessment: standardized and classroom-based; World Englishes; English as a lingua franca; oral language production: cognitive and socio-pragmatic perspectives; quantitative and qualitative research methods; curriculum development and teaching methodology; language policies at the international university; academic language description and use; communicative and authentic task design and analysis; development and evaluation of teaching materials; classroom interaction: scaffolding, teacher talk, student interaction; learning and communication strategies 

Areas of interest

• Development of holistic and analytic rating scales
• Rater training and development
• Oral production fluency in relation to proficiency levels
• Use of a multy-facet Rasch measurement to create and evaluate speaking measurement instruments 

CV

Employment

Associate Professor, Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (2005-2011), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Associate Professor, Department of English (20011-2012), East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Assistant Professor, Department of English (2005-2011), East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Acting Director, Oral English Proficiency Program, Department of English (Spring 2005) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA           

Testing Coordinator, Oral English Proficiency Program, Department of English (2002-2005) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA  

Education

Ph.D. in English as a Second Language, specializing in language testing and measurement (August 2005), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

M.A. in English Language and Linguistics, specializing and sociolinguistics and World Englishes (August 2001), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

B.A. in English Language and Literature (September 1996)
Minor in Italian Language and Literature, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, R. Macedonia