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Elizabeth Steele

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Elizabeth Steele Lecturer in English as Foreign Lang.

Contact

  • Contact hours Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday morning
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
    Abteilung Studiengangsübergr Disziplinen
    Länggasse 85
    3052 Zollikofen

Activities

  • Head, Bilingualism & Multilingualism Office, BFH

  • Lecturer, English as a Foreign Language, BFH-HAFL

  • Multilingualism Officer, BFH-HAFL

  • Translator (DE/FR -> EN) & Text Editor (EN), BFH-HAFL

  • Multilingualism, plurilingualism, pluriculturalism, inter- and transcultural communication

Teaching

  • BSc in Agriculture

  • BSc in Food Science

  • BSc in Forest Science

  • English as a foreign language (ESP/EAP)

Research

  • Machine translation literacy

  • Multilingualism and intercultural communication

  • Discursive construction of social identity

CV

  • 2022-present Head, Bilingualism + Multilingualism Office Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2008-present Lecturer in English as a Foreign Language School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH
  • 2018-present Multilingualism Officer School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH
  • 2018-2023 Head, Languages & Communication School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH
  • 2018-2022 Chair, Bilingualism & Multilingualism Committee Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2001-2008 English teacher The English Institute, Bern
  • 2000-2001 Arts assistant British Council, Bern
  • 1997-1999 Assistant, Marketing & Strategy Group Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
  • 1997-2000 Film & TV actress Various film and TV companies, UK
  • 1993-1996 Corporate broker Arthur Andersen (Corporate Finance Division), Manchester, UK
  • 2012-2016 MA Applied Lingustics University of Nottingham, UK
  • 2009-2010 DELTA (Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) University of Cambridge (Cambridge Assessment English), UK
  • 1995-1997 PGDip Marketing Management Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • 1989-1992 BA (Hons) English Language & Literature University of Durham, UK

Projects

Memberships

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • English - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Professional working proficiency
  • United Kingdom