CercleS Executive
President
Dr. Johann Fischer was Director of the Language Centre of Tübingen University, Germany, 2001-2006 and Director of the Language Centre of Würzburg University from 2006 until spring 2008 before moving to Göttingen. He is an executive member of AKS and member of the UNIcert® committee. His areas of interest include LSP/LAP, task-oriented language teaching, language testing and teacher training. He has been involved in various projects funded by the European Commission and by the Council of Europe (European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz). He has carried out teacher training courses in a large number of countries across Europe.
Vice-President
Prof. Marta Genís holds a degree in Spanish Philology (UAM), an M.A. in Applied Linguistics (UCM), and a PhD in English Philology (UCM). In 1998, she became coordinator of the Instituto de Lenguas Modernas at the University Antonio de Nebrija. Since 2003, she has co-ordinated the Department of Applied Languages there. She is a representative of the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in the Comisión de Convergencia del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior para el diseño de Grado en Traducción e Interpretación and in CCDUTI (Conferencia de Centros y Departamentos Universitarios de Traducción e Interpretación). In addition, she is President of ACLES and also the Secretary-Treasurer of the Centro Humanístico Razón y Memoria. Amongst her research interests and publications are advertising and cinema language, cognitive linguistics, intercultural communication and teacher training.
Prof. Marta Genís Pedra
Secretary General
Prof. Gillian Mansfield (AICLU)
Gillian Mansfield first became actively involved in the setting up of
the Parma University Language Centre in 1987 and became Technical
Director in 1991 and later President in 2000. She was elected treasurer
of AICLU for the period 2001-2004 and Secretary for the following three
years (2004-2007).
She has also supervised a number of European funded Lingua projects for
the learning of Italian as a foreign language which have resulted in
publications (Progetto Italia 2000; Progetto Vocallit; Progetto MML –
Cliccando L’Italia). On a national level, receiving financial support
from the Ministery of University Education (Campus One) she also
designed an on-line inter-faculty course of English in preparation for a
standardised examination (B1 CEFR) for the majority of Parma
University’s 30,000 students. In 2007, she also took part in an
action-research group (Ministry of Education, AICLU, language learning
associations) regarding in-service English language training and
Assessment of Primary School teachers.
Although she has now taken up a purely Academic position as Associate
Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Faculty of Letters,
her time is still very much involved in practical and theoretical issues
concerning foreign language learning. She was appointed co-ordinator in
the setting up and management of the Multimedia Laboratory in the
Department of Foreign Languages in 2004.
Her research interests remain within the area of language learning
issues (autonomous language learning, ELP and new technologies), but
they also cover such areas as Discourse Analysis with particular
reference to Media Language, Corpus Linguistics and the teaching of
translation skills using corpora.
Deputy Secretary General
Helena Šajgalíková (CASALC)
Dr. Helena Sajgalikova is ESP teacher at the University of Economics in
Bratislava and senior lecturer in organizational cultures at Comenius
University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She runs UNIcert®LUCE
(Language Accreditation Unit for Universities of Central and Eastern
Europe) working as a franchise of UNIcert® established in
Germany, and, in the period of 2005-2008, was Vice-president and later
President of CASALC, Slovak and Czech Association of Language Centres at
HEI.
She acted as an author, coordinator and contractor of numerous domestic
and international projects. Her research ranges from language
competences to intercultural communication and organizational cultures
as well as HRM. The results are published in numerous publications.
Helena has organized numerous international seminars, symposia and
conferences.
Helena Šajgalíková (CASALC)
Treasurer
Anthony Stenton
(RANACLES)
Dr. Anthony Stenton is a Senior Lecturer at the University Toulouse I
Capitole. He holds an M.A. in History (University of Cambridge), a PhD
in Computer Assisted Language Learning (University of Burgundy), and an
H.D.R. (University of Toulouse I) for supervising research. His research
interests include CALL. Phonology, Cognitive Science and ESP for
Economics and Law. He has co-ordinated the Multimedia laboratory for the
language department, trained teachers and monitors and has produced
films for intercultural studies with Canal-U. In 1996 he worked on the
European RAPIDO project to benchmark authoring systems. In 2003, he
headed the CNRS-funded TCAN project which brought together 12
researchers from four Toulouse laboratories in the production of the
SWANS authoring system. More recently, he coordinated the French
participation in the EXPLICS Socrates project for the development of
on-line case studies. He is a member of the executive council of
Ranacles and acted as Treasurer for six years.
Deputy Treasurer
Dr. Raija Elsinen is Director of the
University of Joensuu Language Centre. Her research interests include
LSP teaching, learning and assessment, student conceptions and beliefs
and quality work. She has acted as both Vice-President and President of
FINELC and as a Member or Leader of the steering groups of most FINELC
projects.
Raija Elsinen (FINELC)