About Elisabeth Barakos

I am sociolinguist, discourse analyst and trained English and Spanish language teacher dedicated to research on multilingualism and language policy in education and the world of work, with 16+ years of research, teaching and administrative experience across universities in the UK, Germany and Austria. I believe in critically engaging with the social role of language, what people think about language and what they do with it. For me, language is a point for articulating and living out ideologies, historical power relations between speakers as well as inequalities. Language is always political.

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I am currently Lecturer (Teaching) in Applied Linguistics / TESOL at University College London (UCL), Institute of Education (IOE). I also teach courses at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, I held positions as Guest Professor in English Linguistics at Vienna University, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg, Germany,  Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, and research assistant at Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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I am also the co-founder of the BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Special Interest Group on Language Policy. I co-chaired and managed the group for 7 years. Feel free to join the group and debate.