Vita Kalnberzina

I have been working mostly for the University of Latvia, but also for Stockholm School of Economics, Ministry of Education and Zvaigzne ABC publishing house and Latvian Language agency. I am also the current president of Language teacher association. Specialties: My main research area is language acquisition and language testing. I believe we need to have more research in bilingual language acquisition here in Latvia,based on real learner language analysis. I am also language teacher trainer and a language test consultant.

Education

• PhD studies Lancaster University
• Bachelor of Arts; 2002 Doctor of Philosophy Latvia University
• Master of Arts Latvia University, Philology

Companies

• associate professor University of Latvia (2005)
• Lecturer Stockholm School of Economics (2000 — 2004)
• Modern Language Faculty Head of Modern Languages Editors' group, Zvaigzne ABC (1998 — 2000)
• National correspondent Modern Languages Project, European Council, Strasbourg (1998 — 2000)
• Project manager, English Language proficiency evaluation system development British Council (1998 — 2000)
• Lecturer Latvia University (1990 — 2000)
• English language teaching material developer European Council Modern Language centre (1997 — 1999)
• Vice Head the Ministry of Education (1994 — 1998)
• Academic Director Baltic Year 12 (1994 — 1997)

Selected publications

• Kalnbērziņa, Vita (2018). Intercultural/Pluricultural Communication Construct and Its Levels. Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 8 (40–55). DOI: 10.22364/BJELLC.08.2018.03
• Kalnbērziņa, Vita (2016). Ciešamās kārtas lietojuma biežums latviešu un angļu medicīnas zinātniskajos rakstos/Frequency of passive voice in Latvian and English scientific medical writing. Valoda. Language: Meaning and Form/Grammar and Communication, 7(50-58).
• Kalnbērziņa, Vita (with Vineta Rutenberga (2013). Syntactic indicators of language acquisition levels in English and French written language learner corpora. Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, 37(1), 111-126.
• Kalnbērziņa, Vita (with Thomas Eckes, Melanie Ellis, Karmen Pižorn, Claude Springer, Krisztina Szollás, Constance Tsagari) (2005). Progress and problems in reforming public language examinations in Europe: cameos from the Baltic States, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, France, and Germany. Language Testing, 22(2), 3-27.
• Kalnbērziņa, Vita (with D. Blūma. A. Grīnfelds, A. Kangro, V. Skujiņa (2004). Vaodas prasmes pārbaudes terminu vārdnīca. University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate, LR Naturalizācijas pārvalde.