Mag. (FH) Suzana Khalfallah Vezjak, PhD.
Faculty: Faculty of Applied Languages
Department: Department of Linguistics and Translation
Position: DAAD lecturer
Scientific-pedagogical characteristics of the person
Second degree of higher education
Study field and programme: Master's degree: German as a foreign and second language, 2008-2010, Faculty of Philology, University of Leipzig; Herder Institute, Germany
Third degree of higher education
Study field and programme: Doctorate in Linguistics of German as a Foreign and Second Language, 2023, University of Leipzig, Germany
Current and previous employment
DAAD lecturer
Faculty of Applied Languages, University of Economics Bratislava, Slovakia
September 2019 - current
Assistant professor and study management in the program "Scientific teacher training"
Center for Teacher Education and School Research, University of Leipzig, Germany
September 2018 - August 2019
Research assistant at the Department of German as a Foreign and Second Language
Herder Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany
December 2011 - August 2019
Lecturer and assistant director of the institute
Austrian Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
February 2011 - January 2011
Teaching assistant in the binational master's course
Ain Shams University in Cairo, Center of Excellence for study and research in German and Arabic as foreign languages (EZ-DAAF), Egypt
October 2010 - January 2011
Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills
DAAD International Course: Accreditation of courses with double or joint diploma
International DAAD Academy
3., 4. November 2021
Participation in the Infopoint Hochschullehre workshop. Digital exams - concepts, technology, practice
University Forum for Digitalization and the Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching
24. September 2021
Workshop for German teachers on modern trends on German classes organized on topics: CLIL methodology in German classes; New trends, possibilities, applications (Edukácia@Internet), presentation of the deutsch.info platform
State Pedagogical Institute in cooperation with Education@Internet
16. August 2021
Leadership Training: What Makes Leadership Successful? Comparison of expectations of roles and tasks in the team, etc.
Center for Teacher Education and School Research, University of Leipzig, Germany
14. July 2019
Impact-oriented planning and control of internationalization projects
International DAAD Academy
19., 20. October 2022
Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university
Number of defended theses
Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs
Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 2
The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
Vezjak, Suzana (2023a): Essensdiskurse online: Eine diskurslinguistische Analyse aus fremdsprachendidaktischer Perspektive. Dissertation. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
Vezjak, Suzana (2023b): Anschlusskommunikation in Online-Foren: Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung mediatisierter Alltagsdiskurse und deren Potenzial für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. XIV. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik: Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Universität Palermo, 26.07.2021 – 31.07.2021.
Vezjak, Suzana (2021a): Pragmatische Perspektiven auf die Identitätskonstruktion im Web. In: Adamcova, Silvia (Hrsg.): Einblicke in die Linguistik - Forschungsparadigmen und Anwendungsbereiche, Brno: Tribun EU, S. 116-139.
Vezjak, Suzana (2021b): Alternative Prüfungsformate in der (digitalen) akademischen Lehre: Kompetenzorientierung in Lehren, Lernen und Prüfen. In: Helmová, Milena (Hrsg.): Jazyk v kultúre – kultúra v jazyku. Zborník z vedeckej konferencie. Trnava: Slovenská spoločnosť pre regionálnu politiku, S. 127-140.
Stefcik, Jozef/ Vezjak, Suzana (2021a): Online approach towards effective e-learning and teaching. Challenges in designing digital content. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac.
Stefcik, Jozef/ Vezjak, Suzana (2021b): Herausforderungen bei der Gestaltung digitaler Inhalte: methodisch-didaktische Szenarien für effektives digitales Lernen und Lehren. In: Foreign languages in changing times XI: Reviewed conference proceedings from an international scientific conference. Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM Bratislava, S. 328-338.
Vezjak, Suzana (2024): Bedeutungsaushandlung in essensbezogenen Online-Foren. Empirische Analyse und didaktische Potenziale für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. In: Deutsch als Fremdsprache 4/2024
The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
Vezjak, Suzana (2020): Förderung fremdsprachiger Diskursfähigkeit mittels (ernährungsbezogener) Online-Kommunikation. In: Foreign languages in changing times X: Reviewed conference proceedings from an international scientific conference. Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM Bratislava, S. 269-286.
Vezjak, Suzana (2019): Co-author: „Lehrwerk Deutsch kompetent 5“. Stuttgart/Leipzig: Klett Verlag.
Fandrych, Christian/Klemm, Albrecht/Vezjak, Suzana (2016): Sprache und Fach integriert. Das Konzept des BA-Studiengangs Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Salahaddin-Universität Hawler, Erbil, Kurdistan / Irak". In: Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 41/2015, S. 100-118.
Bookreview (2022): Beckers, K., & Wassermann, M. (Hrsg.) (2020): Wissenskommunikation im Web. Bern, Schweiz: Peter Lang. In: Deutsch als Fremdsprache 3/2022.
Bookreview (2021): ADAMCOVÁ, Lívia/ ADAMCOVÁ, Silvia (2019): Linguistische Charakteristik der deutschen Sprache. München: LINCOM. In: Muttersprache 2/2021.
Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities
Organization and marketing for the lecture series Best Practice and Exchange of Experiences: organized by the DAAD lecturers in Slovakia in the summer and winter semester 2021 for lecturers at universities and students in the teaching profession (Master)
DAAD lecturers in Slovakia
Summer and winter semester 2021
Online workshop as part of the Arqus European University Alliance: Building bridges toward a shared future on the topic of Cultural learning in the foreign language classroom: A Question of Identities and Taste?
Arqus European University Alliance; University of Leipzig
November 23, 2021
Conducting a workshop as part of the Zirkeltr@ining DaF. A digital training series around the globe. Content of the workshop: Alternative examination formats in (digital) academic teaching: Competency orientation in teaching, learning and examination.
Association for German and German as foreign Language Teachers in Argentina
October 16, 2021
Training for higher education teachers in Slovakia: Dhoch3 modules in practice: Study modules for German teacher training at universities worldwide
DAAD - Dhoch3
December 3, 2021
Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study
XIV. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik: Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive, Palermo, Italy
26.07.2021 – 31.07.2021,
Lecture in the section Multimodal Texts, Types of Texts and Forms of Transcultural and Transmedial Communication
XVII. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer, Vienna, Austria
15. – 20. August 2022,
Lecture in the section Regional studies in discourse - discursive regional studies
29. Linguistiktage der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS): Sprachwissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung und ihre praktische Anwendung, Paris
8.-10. Juni 2023,
Lecture in the section Interdisciplinary approaches to the current culinary discourse