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Education |
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| 2012-2013 | Postdoctoral research – Cognitive Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA |
| 2009 | Ph.D. in linguistics – doctoral program at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (UNIZG), Croatia; doctoral research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (primary advisor: Professor Ricardo Maldonado Soto) |
| 2000 | Postgraduate Certificate in TEFL – Centre for Applied Language Studies,University of Reading, United Kingdom |
| 1996 | M.A. in English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia |
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Professional Background |
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| 2023 | Director, Center for Cognitive Science Center for Cognitive Science |
| 2023 | Head, MA in Applied Cognitive Science Center for Cognitive Science |
| 2022-present | Expert advisor and guest researcher & professor, Shanghai Center for Research in English Language Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai |
| 2022-2023 | Founding Director, Center for Cognitive Science |
| 2019-present | Associate Professor in linguistics |
| 2019-2023 | Coordinator in designing a new interdisciplinary MA program in cognitive science (Applied Cognitive Science) |
| 2018-present | Member, Center for Cognitive Science, Hunan Normal University, and member of Consortium for Talent Recruitment Project |
| 2018 | Co-founder and organizer, Cognitive Science Forum (CogSci Forum) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 2014 -present | Deputy Director – Doctoral Program in Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 2019-2021 | Head, Department of English |
| 2014-2021 | Chair – TESL/TEFL and SLA Section, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 2013-2019 | Tenured Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 2013 | Awarded Assistant Professorship based on academic achievement (TopTwenty Young Scholars, initiated by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education) |
| 2012-2013 | Fulbright Fellow, Cognitive Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| 2011 |
Research Associate in cognitive science (humanities/social sciences – linguistics/psychology) |
| 2011 | Research Associate in language teaching methodology (English) |
| 2009-2013 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
| 2002-2009 | Teaching and Research assistant, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb |
TEACHING
Present
Language and Cognition: From Theory to Application (2018-present)
Applied Cognitive Linguistics: Learning and Teaching English as L2 (2010-present)
Learners with Special Needs: Visual Impairment and L2 Learning (2010-present)
EFL Practicum (2009-present)
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2009-present)
Past
English Language Teaching Methodology (2012-2015)
Second Language Acquisition (2012-1015)
Process of Language Acquisition (2012-2015)
Doctoral-program courses (Doctoral Program in Foreign Language Education)
Research Methodology (2014-present)
Blindness and Second/Foreign Language Learning (2014-present)
Cognitive Grammar in Learning and Teaching Second/Foreign Languages (2014-present)
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
M.ED. supervision (over 90 M.Ed. theses supervised, participated in over 60 M.Ed. committees)
Ph.D. supervision
1) “Schematicity and learnability in the acquisition of Present Perfect in the EFL Learning Setting” (Tea Glavaš, PhD, Doctoral Program in FL Education
2) “Cross-language priming: Evidence from Croatian-English bilinguals with different second language proficiency levels” (Irena Bogunović, Postgraduate Program in Language and Cognitive Neuroscience)
Ph.D. supervision (in progress)
1) “Measuring foreign language aptitude in young learners” (Jasenka Čengić, Doctoral Program in FL Education)
2) “Activation of strategies in learning English nouns in young Croatian learners” (Mihajla Ćavar Portolan, Doctoral Program in FL Education)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2013 Top 20 Young Scientists – awarded by the Croatian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports
2007 Best Young Scholar Paper, the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Krakow, Poland (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojević)
2006 University of Zagreb Award for Promoting International Cooperation (a joint award with Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović and Marta Medved Krajnović)
GRANTS – principal investigator
2021 Situated creativity and conceptual integration in learning and teaching foreign languages and math – three case studies, funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
2020 Creativity and conceptual integration in learning and teaching foreign languages and math – instrument design and piloting, funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
2018 Criteria for selecting visual elements for verbal elicitation tests, funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
2017 Strategies in vocabulary acquisition in relation to development of phonological representations in first and second language (Croatian and Arabic – L1, English – L2), funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
2016 Interactions between development of lexical and phonological representations in first and second language (Croatian L1, Arabic L1, English L2), funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
2015 Interactions between development of lexical and phonological representations in first and second language (Croatian L1 – English L2), funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
2015 Strategic Meaning Construal in the Blind (carried out with the support of Centre for the Education of Children Who are Blind or Visually Impaired, Zagreb, Croatia)
2014 Specific Aspects of Meaning Construal in Visually impaired and Blind Learners of English, funded by the University of Zagreb funds for science
Projects – team coordinator or/and member
Project: Challenges in Humanities and Social sciences: New Study Programs and Quality Assurance at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (funded by the European Social Fund – ESF)
team coordinator for a new program design in Applied Cognitive Science
Project: Learning Through Work Experience and System for Managing Student Experience at the Faculty of Humanites and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (funded by the European Social Fund – ESF)
team coordinator for investigating the best practices in mentoring student (in-service) teachers, mentoring competences and assessment of student teaching practice.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
– Geld, Renata (coauthored with Josipa Alviž, Jasmina Nestić, Sanja Kišićek, Mirela Landsman Vinković, Dea Marić and Ante Kolak): Guidebook for teacher mentors: student teaching practice at schools. 2022. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
– Geld, Renata and Matesuz-Milan Stanojević: Strategic Meaning Construal Using Words and Images: Cognitive motivation in second language learning. Zagreb, Srednja Europa, 2018.
Editor:
(co-edited with Stela Letica Krevelj): UZRT 2016 Empirical Studies in Applied Linguistics, Zagreb: FF Press.
(co-edited with Stela Letica Krevelj): UZRT 2018 Empirical Studies in Applied Linguistics, Zagreb: FF Press.
Referred Journal Articles (selected)
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mohammad Amiryousefi):
“The role of redressing teachers’ instructional feedback interventions in EFL learners’ motivation and achievement in distance education“ 2019. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, DOI: 10.1080/17501229.2019.1654482
Scopus
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Marta Šarčanin)
”Textual and pictorial representations in strategic thinking about linguistic meaning” 2019. Jezikoslovlje 20(3). 423-445.
WOS, Scopus
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Matesuz Milan Stanojević):
“Topologically biased construal in offline processing: the case of up and down in the language of the blind.” 2016. Suvremena lingvistika [Contemporary Linguistics]. 42 (81): 1-25.
WOS, Scopus
Geld, Renata:
“Investigating meaning construal in the language of the blind: a cognitive linguistic perspective.” 2014. Suvremena lingvistika [Contemporary Linguistics]. 40 (77): 27-59.
WOS, Scopus
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Ricardo Maldonado):
“Strategic construal of in and out in English PVs.” 2011. Language Value, 3 (1), Multiword patterns: considering phrasal verbs and their underlying semantic systems. Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I: Castelló, Spain. 76-113.
WOS
Geld, Renata:
“Topological and lexical determination in English PVs.” 2011. Language Value, 3 (1), Multiword patterns: considering phrasal verbs and their underlying semantic systems. Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I: Castelló, Spain. 49-75.
WOS
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojević):
“The dative in Croatian as a dominion phenomenon.” 2008. Études Cognitive 8. 95- 108.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojević):
“Reading comprehension: statistical analysis of test results for primary and secondary schools.” 2007. Metodika. 8. 160-172.
Geld, Renata:
“Konceptualizacija I vidovi konstruiranja značenja: temeljne kognitivnolingvističke postavke i pojmovi” [Conceptualization and aspects of construal: fundamental cognitive linguistic premises and concepts]. 2006. Suvremena lingvistika. 62. 183-211.
WOS
Geld, Renata: “Strateško konstruiranje značenja engleskih frazbih glagola” [Strategic construal: English particle verbs] 2006. Jezikoslovlje. 7.1-2. 67-111.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović): “Mjesto i uloga engleskog jezika u životu četverogodišnjeg hrvatskog djeteta”
[The place and role of English in the life of a four-year-old Croatian child] 2006. Dijete i jezik. 2006. Edited by Vodopija, Irena. Osijek : Visoka učiteljska škola, Sveučilište u Osijeku.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojević): “Current relevance: a cognitive account”. 2005. Glossos 6.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović): “English in Croatia Today: Opportunities for Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition” 2002-2003. Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. XLVII-XLVIII (2002-2003). 335-352.
Book Chapters
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Ana Petanjak Dedić): “Strategic Construal of Particle Verbs (PVs) in Croatian Secondary-School Learners of English “. In Situating Language Learning Strategy Use: Present Issues and Future Trends. Series: Second Language Acquisition 146. Edited by Lydia Mitits and Zoe Gavriilidou. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2020, pp. 128-141.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Iva Gugo): “Frequency and type of gesture in the blind and the sighted in L1 and L2”. In UZRT 2016: Empirical Studies in Applied Linguistics. Edited by Stela Letica Krevelj and Renata Geld. Zagreb: FF Press, 2017, pp. 127-138.
Geld, Renata: “What vocabulary networks reveal about young learners’ language “. In A New Dynamics of Primary English. Edited by Mihaljević Djigunović Jelena; Marta Medved Krajnović. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2015, pp. 149-173.
WOS, Scopus
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mateusz-Milan stanojević & Tomislav Tadić):
“Uloga konceptualne metafore u poučavanju vokabulara kod videćih i slijepih učenika engleskoga jezika” [The role of conceptual metaphor in teaching vocabulary to sighted and blind learners of English] In Metafore koje istražujemo: suvremeni uvidi u konceptualnu metaforu [Metaphors we research: contemporary insights into conceptual metaphor]. Edited by Mateusz-Milan Stanojević, Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2014. pp. 255-282.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojević):
“New current relevance in Croatian: epistemic immediacy and the aorist”. In Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality. Edited by Patard, Adeline; Brisard, Frank. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. pp. 159-180.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Stela Letica Krevelj):
“Centrality of space in the strategic construal of up in English particle verbs”. In Space and Time in Language. Edited by Brdar, Mario; Omazić, Marija; Buljan, Gabrijela; Bagarić, Vesna; Gradečak-Erdeljić, Tanja. Frankfurt / New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2011. pp. 145-166.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Maja Šimunić):
“A case study of a blind speaker of English as L2“. In Cognitive Approaches to English: Fundamental, Methodological, Interdisciplinary an Applied Aspects. Edited by Brdar, Mario; Omazić, Marija; Pavičić Takač, Višnja. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 403-430.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Snježana Đurđek):
“Gradience in L2 processing: the importance of the non-prototypical”. In Cognitive Approaches to English: Fundamental, Methodological, Interdisciplinary and Applied Aspects. Edited by Brdar, Mario; Omazić, Marija ; Pavičić Takač, Višnja. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 363-383.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Irena Zovko Dinković):
“Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present tense”. In Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain. Edited by Divjak, Dagmar; Kochanska, Agata. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. pp. 111-148.
WOS, Scopus
Conference Proceedings (selected)
Geld, Renata (coauthered with Geld, Renata; Jović, Alan; Tomić, Diana; Bojanjac, Dario; Hromatko, Ivana; Sović Kržić, Ana; Tonković, Mirjana; Jelača, Matija): “Education-based Situated Creativity”. In Creative Industries and Experience Economy. Edited by Budak, Jelena ; Holy, Mirela ; Medić, Rino. Zagreb: VERN’ University & The Institute of Economics, 2022. pp 197-211.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Višnja Josipović Smojver, Mateusz Milan Stanojević & Filip Klubička): “The pronunciation of ELF: Internationally intelligible English with recognizable national features”. In Multidisciplinary Approaches to Multiligualism: Proceedings form the CALS conference 2014. Edited by Kovačević Cegol, Kristina; Udier, Sanda Lucija. Frankfurt / New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2015. pp. 91-106.
Geld, Renata (coauthored with Anita Čutić): “Salience of topology in the strategic construal of English particle verbs in blind users of English” In Language as Information: Proceedings from CALS 2012. Edited by Peti-Stantić, Anita; Stanojević, Mateusz Milan. Frankfurt / New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2014. pp. 13-29.
INVITED TALKS, PLENARIES, COLLOQUIA and PANELS (selected)
2022 Keynote, conference. “Croatian Prime Minister’s Energy” (co-presented with Nikolina Borčić). ICMC 2022: 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Global Multimodal Communication about Energy (in conjunction with the International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research, and Application, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
2022 Keynote, panel. “Let’s work together: fostering interdisciplinarity at university”, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA (October 2022)
2022 Invited talk. “The blinds’ mind’s eye and their linguistic meaning construal”, The Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China (July 2022)
2022 Invited talk. “Grammar as a motivated system: lists of rules do not help”, Shanghai Center for Research in English Language Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China (May 2022)
2021 Plenary, conference. “Language, (situated) creativity and conceptual integration“, 35th international conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society: Language in the Digital Environment, Osijek, Croatia
2021 Plenary, conference. “Bimodal strategic meaning construal: aspects of conceptual integration in offline L2 processing”, Drugi znanstveni skup Hrvatskog društva sveučilišnih lektora, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2019 Keynote, panel. “How faculty internationalize their classrooms”, Culture and Music Festival, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA
2019 Invited talk. “Imagery, mental representation and the language of the blind” (Indiana State University, USA)
2018 Colloquium talk. “What it takes to draw meaning: visual grammar, conceptual integration, and strategic meaning construal in L2 speakers of English”, Cognitive Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, USA (February 2018)
2017 Invited talk. “Salience and Situatedness in the Language of the Blind: Language as a Window to Imagery and Meaning Construal”, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
2017 Keynote, conference. “Strategic thinking, learning, and meaning construal”, 25th Annual Croatian Association of Teachers of English Conference, Šibenik, Croatia
2017 Plenary, conference. “Interplay between social and individual factors in teaching students with disabilities and special needs in higher education” (International conference: From Theory to Practice in Languages for Specific Purposes, Zagreb, Croatia)
2016 Invited talk. “Aims and techniques of classroom observation: what we need to know before learning from other teachers “, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman (November 2016)
2016 Invited talk. “Learning and teaching grammar as a meaningful cognitively-motivated system” (College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, March 2016)
2015 Colloquium talk. “Multimodality in second-language offline processing”, Cognitive Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, USA (March 2015)
2014 Guest talk. “Salience and Situatedness in the Language of the Blind”, Autonomous University of Querétaro (UAQ), Querétaro, Mexico (April 2014)
2014 Invited talk. “Linguistic meaning construal in the language of the blind”, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico (April 2014)
2013 Plenary, conference. “Assessing writing”, 5th Symposium for Teachers of Croatian, Vodice, Croatia, (September 2013
2012 Keynote, panel. “Textbooks in foreign language teaching”, Textbooks in Croatia – investment for the future of return into the past, symposium organized by the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, Croatia (August 2012)
2012 Guest talk. “Strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs”, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg (April 2012)
For full bibliography see:
http://beta.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/249824?w_mentor=1
http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=249824&lang=EN (old link)
Editorial work and review boards
– Member of Editorial board – John Benjamins Publishing Company, the book series Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp
– Editor-in-chief for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (FF Press – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Press, UNIZG)
– referee/reviewer for journal Strani jezici [Foreign Languages]
– referee/reviewer for Croatian Applied Linguistics Conferences
– referee/reviewer for TESL-EJ
– referee/reviewer for Linguistica (Slovenia)
– referee/reviewer for journal Filologija [Philology]
CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Member of organizing committee
2022 The 12th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism (IAML3 2020) – Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2022 Regional host for international student conference – MEi:CogSci 2022, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2018 University of Zagreb Round Table – Empirical Studies in Applied Linguistics. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 University of Zagreb Round Table – Empirical Studies in Applied Linguistics. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2014 Croatian Applied Linguistics Conference “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism”. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 Societas Linguistica Europea Conference, University of Split, Croatia
2013 Croatian Applied Linguistics Conference “Standards and Sociolects in the 21st Century”, University of Zagreb & University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2012 Croatian Applied Linguistics Conference “Language as Information”. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Member
Croatian Applied Linguistic Society (CALS)
Cognitive Science Society (CSS)
Croatian Association of Teachers of English (HUPE)