Edit Willcox-Ficzere

Edit Willcox-Ficzere is a Senior Lecturer and Subject Coordinator at Oxford Brookes University, managing the University English Department while teaching academic language skills and language pedagogy.

Her research examines second language pragmatic competence assessment, particularly how ESL learners demonstrate pragmatic awareness during speaking tasks. Recent work analyzes contextual influences on linguistic choices and task design for assessing interactional competence.

She has contributed to British Council validation studies on pragmatic competence assessment frameworks. Conference presentations focus on task-based language assessment and sociolinguistic influences on learner performance.