Schmiderer, Katrin, Mag.a PhD, BA

Portrait Katrin Schmiderer

Innrain 52, room no. 40511, 5th floor, Geiwi Tower

Consultation hours: Wednesday, 5:00-6:00 pm or by appointment

+43/512/507-43005

katrin.schmiderer@uibk.ac.at

 ORCID 0000-0001-9030-5104

About the person

  • University Assistant Post-Doc (50%), University of Innsbruck | October 2022 - today
  • Teacher for Italian and Spanish, currently KORG Innsbruck | September 2016 - today
  • Project assistant post-doc, "Anbahnungsfinanzierung für das Projekt Lernersprachenentwicklung im schulischen Kontext. Empirische Befunde für den Unterricht moderner Sprachen", Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz | July 2022 - September 2022
  • Project assistant Erasmus+ project "DigiTask4IC", Institute for Didactics, University of Innsbruck | April 2022 - November 2022
  • University Assistant Prae-Doc, Institute for Didactics, University of Innsbruck | October 2017 - October 2021
  • University Assistant Prae-Doc, Institute for Didactics, University of Innsbruck (temporary replacement) | January 2016 - September 2017
  • Student Assistant, Institute for Didactics and Institute for Translation Studies | October 2013 - December 2015

 

Teaching

  • Introduction to the didactics of foreign language teaching (PM1a)
  • Language acquisition in plurilingual and digital contexts (BA and MA Spanish seminars)
  • Elective course "Kollaboratives Digitales Task Design für den Fremdsprachenunterricht"
  • Master's seminar on methods and instruments of subject-specific didactics research: Spanish 

 

Teacher training programme

  • KPH Edith Stein: Mentoring course "In-depth didactic aspects of mentoring"
  • PH Tirol: ARGE leader for Italian (AHS, Tyrol)
  • Further training for Italian and Spanish teachers at numerous PHs, most recently on "Learning by Doing: Task-orientated foreign language learning", "Ascoltami/Escúchame: Alternative approaches for more input in foreign language teaching"

Research

Skills acquisition

  • L2 acquisition in a school context (especially Italian and Spanish, in particular morphosyntax acquisition and current project on turn-taking)

Task culture

  • Development of digital learning materials and learning settings
  • Learner autonomy

Global Citizenship Education

  • Multilingualism in teacher training
  • Learning and teaching Spanish in the context of the Western Sahara

Publications

  • Schmiderer, K. (accepted, 2025). Investigating L2 developmental stages in productive and receptive language use – Revisiting key methodological issues. In PALART Series (Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research and Teaching) 10. Processability Theory: Extensions and Interfaces.
  • Schmiderer, K., Brocca, N., Guggenbichler, E., & Konzett-Firth, C. (accepted, 2025). Exploring pre-service teachers’ criteria for evaluating collaboratively designed online tasks. TASK Journal.
  • Schmiderer, Katrin (2024): Potenziale von tasks für die Förderung lexikalischer Kompetenz. In: Hirzinger-Unterrainer, E.M. (Hrsg.): Aufgabenorientierung im Italienischunterricht. Ein theoretischer Einblick mit praktischen Beispielen. Tübingen. Narr, pp. 45-83.
  • Schmiderer, Katrin; Labeidi Hamdi, Fatimetu; Hinger, Barbara (2024): El español en los campamentos saharauis. In: Hispanorama 184, pp. 124-129.
  • Schmiderer, Katrin; Hinger, Barbara (2023): "L'interlingua produttiva e ricettiva di studenti di italiano LS in un contesto di scuola secondaria austriaca". In: Italiano LinguaDue 15/2, 43-64. https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/21938
  • Schmiderer, Katrin (2023): Produktiver und rezeptiver Grammatikerwerb im schulischen Italienischunterricht. Eine Lernersprachenanalyse. Tübingen: Narr.
  • Schmiderer, Katrin (2021): "„Italienisch- und Spanischlernen ‘wie ich selbst es gerne hätte’: Sprachlerntagebücher als Instrument zur Förderung von Lernerautonomie“. In: Harjus, Jannis; Autelli, Erica; Hassler, Gabriele; Konzett-Firth, Carmen; Lange, Stella; Zapf, Nora (eds.): Grenzen und Brücken in der Romania. Beiträge zum 35. Forum Junge Romanistik in Innsbruck. (18-20 March 2019). AVM: Munich.
  • Schmiderer, Katrin; Zanasi, Lorenzo; Konecny, Christine; Autelli, Erica (2020): "Sviluppare la competenza lessicale e fraseologica tramite i task. Un contributo allo sviluppo di materiale per l'italiano L2", in: Italiano LinguaDue, V. 12 N. 2 (2020) (= Quaderni di Italiano LinguaDue 4, a cura di Enrico Serena, Gerald Bernhard, Irene Gallerani, Judith Visser), pp. 238-256.
  • Hinger, Barbara; Hirzinger-Unterrainer, Eva M.; Schmiderer, Katrin (2020): "A Cross-Linguistic and Multilingual Pre-Service Teacher Education Programme: Insights From the Innsbruck Model of Foreign Language Teacher Education". In: Mickan, Peter; Wallace, Ilona (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Language Education Curriculum Design, London - New York: Routledge, pp. 274-288.

Learning tasks (Open Educational Resources)

All publications

Scientific organisation

  • Member of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), the Austrian Society for Foreign Language Didactics (ÖGSD), the Association for Applied Linguistics Austria (verbal)
  • Membership of the inter-university network LiNe - Language in Education: https://languageineducation.eu/en/
  • Conference organisation: ÖGSD Junior Conference 2019 (together with Benjamin Fliri), 22nd International Symposium of Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition 2023 (together with Anke Lenzing)
  • Coordinator of the DiA (Didactics in the Evening) lecture series
  • Science education as part of the Young University, Children's University and BeSt

 

Projects

OPTIMIST project (2024-1-AT01-KA220-SCH-000248923, Erasmus +, 250.000€)

2021-2022  PRO teaching project for the implementation of digital tasks (€5,000, University of Innsbruck, together with Christine Konecny)

 

Other projects

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