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Madalina Chitez

Dr.

Senior Researcher / PI - UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Researcher

Web of Science ResearcherID: D-4650-2012

Curriculum Vitae (28/05/2019)

Expertise & keywords

Discipline-specific expert academic writing in Romanian and English: corpus-based contrastive analysis models Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0821 2021 - 2022

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://dacre.projects.uvt.ro/

Abstract:

Successful academics and professionals need to master linguistic and text-rhetorical skills that have the potential to make disciplinary knowledge accessible to all sectors of society. The project DACRE aims to fill the gap in applied corpus linguistics research adapted to the Romanian context, which uses corpus methods to investigate on and generate support for discipline-specific academic writing. The compiled corpora represent twelve data-sets (around 7 million words) of expert academic writing, i.e. research articles, in Romanian, English L1 and English L2, from four disciplines. The main objective in DACRE is the creation of methodological models for corpus related contrastive analyses (Romanian-English) emerging from the detailed investigation of the compiled corpora: salient discipline-specific academic writing features (e.g. lexical preferences) and the Romanian academic writing features (e.g. collocations). The interactive platform DACRE, with free corpus searches, corpus-based discipline-specific tools (e.g. academic phrasebank) and teaching recommendations, is an open-access deliverable of the project. The corpus is dynamic so the platform can be adapted for further disciplines. The project contributes the improvement of the academic writing performance of the target groups (students, faculty, researchers and professionals) and it also lays the foundation for high-quality research in applied linguistics.

Academic genres at the crossroads of tradition and internationalization: Corpus-based interlanguage research on genre use in student writing at Romanian universities Call name:
IZ11Z0_16653 2017 - 2022

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://roger.projects.uvt.ro/

Abstract:

ROGER is a research project whose aim is to develop a methodology for the analysis of academic writing genres at Romanian universities in a contrastive perspective: genres written in Romanian versus genres written in English. This will help us understand what and how students write at university level in both English and Romanian and contrast writing in the native tongue to writing in a foreign language. The project will also result in a searchable corpus which will be used for further research.

Annotation systems for a corpus of academic theses: contrastive corpus linguistics processing strategies in BAWE versus TESEC Call name:
IZK0Z1_164769 2015 - 2015

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Project partners: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (RO); Coventry University (RO)

Affiliation: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (RO)

Project website: http://p3.snf.ch/project-164769

Abstract:

The project is meant (a) to compare annotation methodology used for the processing of the BAWE corpus with the annotation methodology already implemented in the TESEC corpus and (b) to identify the adequate annotation strategies for the content annotation of the TESEC corpus together with the research team at the Department of English Studies of the Coventry University, conducted by Professor Hilary Nesi.

Online Support for Student Writers Call name:
Z72Z0_158076 2014 - 2014

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Project partners: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (RO); Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (RO); Sts. Cyril and Methodius University (RO); Ivan Franko National University of L'viv (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO); University of Lodz (RO)

Affiliation: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

Literacy Development in the Humanities: Creating Competence Centres for the Enhancement of Reading and Writing Skills as Part of University Teaching Call name:
IZ74Z0_137428 2011 - 2013

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Project partners: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO); University Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje (RO); Ivan Franko National University (RO)

Affiliation: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (RO)

Project website: http://p3.snf.ch/project-137428

Abstract:

While litercy development in higher education traditionally has not been adressed directly, today it seems necessary to support reading and writing competences through means like writing courses, writing tutoring, online platforms, writing-intensive seminars and so on. The proposed project aims at developing competence centers that are devoted to the development of writing/ literacy skills centers and to the study of student literacy. The development of explicit services fostering literacy development is part of new teaching directions such as proposed by the Bologna process. The project partners will study the conditions and traditions of literacy development in their institutions and will develop competence centres that create a strong base for an academic writing and reading pedagogy.

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