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).

Curriculum Vitae

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

Projekte

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