Working Group Lead
WG 6 - Future forms of examination and testing

Dott. Grazia Battista

I am Grazia Battista, a part-time lecturer for Italian at TU Darmstadt.

My personal interests are literature and art.

My languages: Italian, German and English

I am interested in: Language didactics and language certificates.

Dr. Johann Fischer

First, I was Head of the Language Resource Centres of the Universities of Hohenheim and of Tübingen as well as of Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU); and since 2009, I have been Head of ZESS at the University of Göttingen.

Since 1994, I have been a member of the Wissenschaftliche Kommission of UNIcert® (since 2007, chairperson) and since 1996, a member of the Ständige Kommission of AKS. From 2004 to 2008, I was Secretary General, and from 2008 to 2012, President of CercleS. I am also a co-founder of NULTE.

My languages: I studied English, French and Italian and obtained my doctorate in Romance linguistics

I am interested in: Specialised languages, action orientation, (action-oriented) testing of language skills, development of key competencies, teacher training and change management.