Anna Trebits

• Englisch 1 Gr.C
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• Technical English 1 Gr. A
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• Technical English I
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• Technical English I S2
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• Technisches Englisch S3
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Lecturer for English Language and ESP

Selected publications 

Papers under review and in preparation

• Trebits, A. (under review). What drives successful communication in an EFL context? How foreign language enjoyment, motivation and anxiety shape pragma-linguistic gains.
• Trebits, A. & Fischer, M. (in preparation). Brexit for English Language Learners - B1/B2. 
• Trebits, A. & Kersten, K. (in preparation). Bilingualism trumps socioeconomic status: L1 and L2 development in primary school learners of English as a foreign language.
• Dalnodar, J. A. & Trebits, A. (in preparation). A comparison of multilingual education in South African, European and North American Schools.

Webinars & MOOCs

• Fischer, M. & Trebits, A. (2023). English for Specific Professional Purposes in Multicultural EU Institutions – A 200-hour webinar course – Tempus Public Foundation.
• Trebits, A. & Fischer, M. (2022). English for Specific Professional Purposes in Multicultural EU Institutions – An 8-hour intermediate course – Tempus Public Foundation.
• Fischer, M. & Trebits, A. (2022). English for Specific Professional Purposes in Multicultural EU Institutions – An 8-hour advanced course – Tempus Public Foundation.

Peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters & accredited ESP course materials

• Trebits, A. (accepted for publication in Sept 2022). Grammar in foreign language classrooms - Why it is necessary and how to do it well. Modern English Teacher.
• Trebits, A., Koch, M., Ponto, K., Bruhn, A-K., Adler, M., & Kersten, K. (2021). Cognitive gains and socioeconomic status in early second language acquisition in immersion and EFL learning settings. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2021.1943307Fischer, M. & Trebits, A. (2021). English for specific professional purposes in international organizations – Internediate (B2) Course Materials. Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation
• Trebits, A. & Fischer, M.  (2021). English for specific professional purposes in international organizations – Advanced (C1) Course Materials. Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation
• Trebits, A. (2019). Degree of bilingualism and intensity of target language contact predict pragmatic gains in an EFL context. International Journal of Multilingualism. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790718.2019.1678626
• Fischer, M. & Trebits, A. (2019). English for Higher Education and the European Union. Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Trebits, A. & Fischer, M. (2018). English for Higher Education Experts. Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Fischer, M. & Trebits, A. (2016). English for the European Union – An ESP Course for Business Experts and Civil Servants. Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Trebits, A. (2016). Sources of individual differences in L2 narrative production: The contribution of input, processing and output anxiety. Applied Linguistics, 37 (2), 155-174.
• Fischer, M., Trebits, A., & Balogh, D. (2015). EU English – English for the European Union for the officials of Europedirect in Hungary. Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Trebits, A., & Fischer, M. (2015). EU English – English for the European Union. A Focus on European Policies (For Europedirect, Hungary). Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Trebits, A., Fischer, M., & Balogh, D. (2014). EU English – English for the European Union. A Focus on Cooperation in Foreign, Police and Judicial Affairs in the EU. (For Europedirect, Hungary). Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Fischer, M., Trebits, A., & Balogh, D. (2014). EU English – English for the European Union. A Focus on Funding EU Projects. (For Europedirect, Hungary). Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Trebits, A., Fischer, M., & Balogh, D. (2013). EU English – English for the European Union. A Focus on Financial and Legal Affairs in the EU. (For Europedirect, Hungary). Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Balogh, D., Trebits, A., & Fischer, M. (2013). EU English – English for the European Union. A Focus on Cooperation in the EU – A Brief History. (For Europedirect, Hungary). Budapest: Tempus Public Foundation.
• Kormos, J. & Trebits, A. (2012). The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance. Language Learning, 62, (2), 439-472.
• Kormos, J. & Trebits, A. (2011). Working memory capacity and narrative task performance. In: P. Robinson (Ed.), Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis Of Language Learning and Performance. London: John Benjamins.
• Trebits, A. (2009). The most frequent phrasal verbs in English language EU documents – A corpus-based study and its implications. System, 37, (3).
• Trebits, A. (2009). Conjunctive cohesion in English language EU documents- A corpus-based analysis. English for Specific Purposes, 28, (3).
• Trebits, A. (2008). English lexis in the documents of the European Union: A corpus-based exploratory study. Working Papers in Language Pedagogy, Eotvos Lorand University, 2, 38-54.

 Books

• Trebits, A. & Fischer, M. (2010). EU English: Using English in EU Contexts. With English EU Terminology B2. Updated international edition. Budapest: Klett Verlag.
• Trebits, A. & Fischer, M. (2009). EU English: Using English in EU Contexts. With English-Hungarian EU Terminology B2. Budapest: Klett Verlag.

 Conference presentations & organization

• Trebits, A., Ponto, K., Kersten, K. (2021). Sources of individual differences in L2 development: The role of parenting style, home enrichment and L1 proficiency in young learners. AILA: University of Groningen.
• (With K. Kersten).  Bilingualism trumps socioeconomic status: L1 and L2 development in primary school learners of English as a foreign language. - August 31, 2019 / EUROSLA Conference, University of Lund
• (With M. Adler and K. Kersten). Cognitive abilities, L2 rceptive skills and socioeconomic status in SLA - September 6, 2018 / EUROSLA Conference, University of Munster
• (With M. Adler and K. Kersten). Cognitive factors and socioeconomic status in SLA - May 12, 2017 / University of Hildesheim
• Breaking the wall of low socioeconomic status in childhood - Falling Walls Lab, Berlin, November 9, 2016
• Language. Learning. Technology – Conference organization at the Leuphana University Lueneburg, November, 2015
• Pragmatic awareness in EFL, early bilingual experience and tandem learning – an exploratory study. Pragmatics on the Go! Conference. Padova, Italy: June 17-20, 2013.
• Task-related differences across modes of performance.  3rd TBLT Conference, Lancaster, UK: September 13-16, 2009 (with J. Kormos).

Academic degrees 

• MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health, King's College London (2020)
• PhD in English Language Pedagogy, Eotvos Lorand University (2012)
• MA in English Linguistics and TESOL, Eotvos Lorand University (2001)
• MA in French Literature and Linguistics, Eotvos Lorand University (2001)

Academic positions held

• 2022 -
  University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
  Lecturer in English Language and ESP
• 2016 – 2022
  University of Hildesheim, Germany
  Lecturer in English Language and TESOL, Teacher trainer (GHR-300)
• 2012 – 2016
  Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
  Lecturer in English Applied Linguistics, Post-Doc Principal Researcher in the Study-Abroad Project 
• 2006 – 2012
  Eötvös Loránd University, School of English and American Studies Lecturer in English and Applied Linguistics

Non-academic employment

• 2004 – 2006
  European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
  EU Civil servant employed in HR administration
• 2002 – 2004
  French Embassy in Budapest, Hungary
  Multilingual consular assistant

Ongoing 

• Teaching Technical English for Engineers (University of Applied Sciences of Bielefeld)
• Habilitation/Book Project: Environmental factors in cognitive and linguistic development: Socioeconomic status and multilingualism (with Prof. Kristin Kersten, University of Mannheim)
• Multilingualism and multilingual education in South Africa - Identity and multilingualism in society (with Jennifer Alina Dalnodar, M.Ed., English teacher)
• Noise in the assessment of secondary students´ written assignments in English (with Martin Bastkowski, M.Ed., English teacher)
• Enjoyment and ESL (with Dr Cirsten Carlson, University of Hildesheim)

 2012 – 2016

• Pragmatic development during study-abroad – The role of individual differences in motivation and anxiety
• Designing innovative online, web-based EFL, ESP and EAP courses
• Early bilingual experience and pragmatic learning in various EFL contexts

 2008 – 2012

• PhD Research Project - Task complexity and second language narrative production: Effects of individual differences in working memory, foreign language aptitude and anxiety
• Corpus linguistic study of English language EU documents: lexical and grammatical features of EU English