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Ute Smit is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna's Department of English / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. She serves as Deputy Head of the Research Platform "Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations" and has held various leadership roles including Department Head and Deputy Head. Her research focuses on English-medium education in multilingual university settings, combining ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) frameworks.
- Research: Specializes in disciplinary literacies, language policy, classroom discourse analysis, and teacher education
- Projects: Coordinates COST Action CLILNetLE, co-leads ROAD-MAPPING framework research, and contributes to international collaborations in Denmark, Spain, and Finland
- Education: Habilitation (2008), Ph.D. (1995) and M.A. (1990) in English linguistics from the University of Vienna
- Teaching: Delivers courses at all academic levels including STEOP: Introduction to the Study of Language, Thesis seminars, and Research methods in linguistics
Her work examines how multilingual practices shape knowledge construction in internationalized higher education, with methodological expertise in ethnographic and discourse-pragmatic approaches. She supervises numerous doctoral and master's students while maintaining active involvement in academic service through editorial boards and international research networks.
