Biography

I am a post-doc at the Université de Fribourg and the research assistant of the rector at the St.Gallen University of Teacher Education. As a post-doc at the Department for Multilingualism and Foreign Language Education in Fribourg I conduct research for my habilitation in foreign language education and various other research and publication projects. I teach seminars, supervise students' theses at BA and MA level, and engage in further tasks such as the organisation of the the BA colloquium. I am part of various committees and associations and coordinate the EALTA special interest group "Academic Purposes". In my role as the research assistant of the rector at the PHSG, I'm involved with tasks regarding research in tertiary education / teacher education and organisational development, publications, preparation work for consultations launched by various stakeholders and committees etc. My background is in English and Media Studies (BA, Switzerland), English Literature (MA, UK) and in English language teaching at upper secondary school and tertiary level in Europe and New Zealand. I received my PhD in foreign language teaching and learning from the Université de Fribourg. My research interests are in foreign language education, applied linguistics, plurilingualism, language aptitude, language testing, LSP testing, educational assessment, feedback processes, teacher education, and higher education / organisational development.

Research and publications

• Conference paper presentations
  26 publications

  2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

  Developing plurilingual writing competence in collaborative and cooperative settings.
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Valentin Unger, 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference: (26.8.2023) | Conference

  Online-mediated teacher-student feedback literacies development: inquiries into a language-focussed approach with its affordances and limitations
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Spotlight on Language Teaching: Digital Feedback in Research and Practice International Conference, Chemnitz: (30.6.2023) | Conference

  Affordances and limitations of incorporating video-vignettes as near-authentic stimuli in LSP oral performance tests
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 19th Annual European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) Conference, Helsinki.: (16.6.2023) | Conference

  Entwicklung mehrsprachiger Schreibkompetenz in kollaborativen und kooperativen Lernumgebungen
  Valentin Unger, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Konferenz des Vereins Fachdidaktik Deutsch (fdd), Fribourg: (1.6.2023) | Conference

  Assessing L2 Speaking Performance Asynchronously and Online: On Navigating the Fields of Tension between Authenticity, Validity, Reliability and Practicality
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 8th International Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) Conference, Madrid: (27.4.2023) | Conference

  Language teaching in the ‘third space’: Identity trajectories and professional development needs.
  Jenny Mendieta Aguilar, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Applied Linguistics in in the Asia-Pacific region (ALANZ / ALAA / ALTAANZ), Wellington, New Zealand. : (11.2022) | Conference

  Was macht eine mündliche Aussage im Fremdsprachenunterricht verständlich und adressatengerecht? Erste Hinweise aus einer Pilotstudie
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF-SSRE), Lausanne: (12.9.2022) | Conference

  Affordances and Limitations of an LSP Rubric to Foster and Assess Teacher Language Competence
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) SIG 1 & 4 Joint Conference, Càdiz: (30.6.2022) | Conference

  Addressee-specificity as an evaluation criterion or an evolving independent construct? On the quest of identifying the make-up of Teacher Language Competence
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 18th European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) Conference, Budapest.: (5.6.2022) | Conference

  Rubrics zur Kompetenzförderung in hochschuldidaktischen Lehr-Lernarrangements.
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Online-Tagung "Formatives Assessment an Pädagogischen Hochschulen zur Unterstützung von selbstreguliertem Lernen" der Arbeitsgruppe Hochschuldidaktik der Kammer PH von swissuniversities.: (12.11.2021) | Conference

  Feedback-Literalität an der Schnittstelle der Fremdsprachenforschung, Englischdidaktik und empirischen Bildungsforschung: Wie verortet sich die Fremdsprachenkompetenz?
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 29. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF), Universität Duisburg-Essen, online.: (23.9.2021) | Conference

  Towards Higher Authenticity in Language for Specific Purpose Testing: Assessing Target Language Proficiency in Foreign Language Teacher Education
  Thomas Roderer, Olivia Rütti-Joy, 17th Annual European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) Conference, online.: (4.6.2021) | Conference

  Adressatengerechte mündliche Rückmeldungen angehender Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen in der Zielsprache Englisch: lassen sie sich anhand eines Beurteilungsrasters als Übungstool trainieren?
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 11. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik: (11.2020) | Conference

  Adressatengerechte mündliche Rückmeldungen angehender Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen in der Zielsprache Englisch: lassen sie sich anhand eines Beurteilungsrasters als Übungstool trainieren?
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Evidence-Based Foreign Language Learning – Multilingualism in Education Tagung (EBFL), Ascona [Conference canceled]: (9.2020) | Conference

  Applying peer rubric feedback in foreign language teacher education: Fostering pre-service teachers’ oral feedback skills through facilitating reflective moments
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 19th AILA World Congress, Groningen [Conference canceled].: (8.2020) | Conference

  Pre-service foreign language teachers explore metalanguage online to draw implications for their own foreign language teaching practice
  Kristina Ehrsam, Olivia Rütti-Joy, 19th AILA World Congress, Groningen [Conference canceled].: (8.2020) | Conference

  Lernerurteile zu mündlichen Rückmeldungen angehender Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen in der Zielsprache Englisch: Eine Pilotstudie
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 8.Tagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Potsdam [Conference canceled].: (2.2020) | Conference

  Erhebung mündlicher, berufsspezifischer Sprachkompetenzen von angehenden Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen anhand computerbasiertem Testen und Videovignetten
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 7. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Köln.: (2.2019) | Conference

  Erheben und evaluieren von mündlichen Rückmeldungen angehender Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen: zielstufengerecht, in der Zielsprache
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 46. Jahrestagung Fachtagung Deutsch als Fremdsprache (FaDaF), Chemnitz.: (2019) | Conference

  Erhebung berufsspezifischer Sprachkompetenzen von angehenden Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen
  Thomas Roderer, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Lukas Bleichenbacher, Symposium „Testen bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen und akademischer Sprachkompetenzen – Synergien zwischen Schule und Hochschule erkennen und nutzen“, Bochum.: (2018) | Conference

  Measuring and assessing profession-related language competences
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, 1. Internationale Konferenz des Verbands Fremdsprachendidaktik Schweiz (ADLES), Lausanne.: (2018) | Conference

  ́Yeah, this is an exercise I would skip ́: What makes an academic writing online resource usable and relevant?
  Jenny Mendieta Aguilar, Olivia Rütti-Joy, The Higher Education Technology Agenda (THETA) conference 2017, Auckland. : (2017) | Conference

  ́Yeah, this is an exercise I would skip ́: What makes an academic writing online resource usable and relevant?
  Jenny Mendieta Aguilar, Olivia Rütti-Joy, The Higher Education Technology Agenda (THETA) conference 2017, Auckland. : (2017) | Conference

  ́write@uni ́: An online learning approach to facilitate first-year students‘ transition to university writing
  Vanda Ivanovic, Jenny Mendieta Aguilar, Hester Mountifield, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Elizabeth Sowden, IATUL conference 2017, Bolzano. : (2017) | Conference

  Academic literacy across borders: An online learning approach to facilitate first-year students‘ transition to University writing
  Jenny Mendieta Aguilar, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Community Languages and ESOL conference, CLESOL 2016, Hamilton, New Zealand. : (2016) | Conference

  Bridging the gap between L1 and L2 speakers: „Let’s talk to local students“.
  Jennifer Jones, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Community Languages and ESOL conference, CLESOL 2016, Hamilton, New Zealand. : (2016) | Conference

• Publications
  6 publications

  2023 2022 2021 2019

  Feedback Literacy , in Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
  Jennifer Schluer, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Valentin Unger (2023) | Book chapter

  Zur Bedeutung des Dritten Zyklus für Pädagogische Hochschulen
  Horst Biedermann, Heinz Rhyn, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Beiträge zur Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (2023) | Journal article

  Language Teaching in the ‘Third Space’: Identity Trajectories and Professional Development Needs
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Jenny Mendieta Aguilar, Language Teaching Research Quarterly (2023) | Journal article

  Fostering and Assessing Pre-Service English Teachers’ Oral Teacher Language Competence Through an Assessment Rubric and Peer Feedback: An LSP Approach
  Olivia Rütti-Joy (2022) | Thesis

  Erheben und evaluieren von mündlichen, berufsspezifischen Sprachkompetenzen angehender Fremdsprachenlehrpersonen: zielstufengerecht und in der Zielsprache , in Vermitteln – Verbinden – Verstehen
  Olivia Rütti-Joy (Göttingen University Press, 2021) | Book chapter

  Sprachliche und inhaltliche Qualitätsmerkmale von mündlichen Rückmeldungen angehender Lehrpersonen in der Zielsprache Englisch: Eine Interventionsstudie zu Experten- und Lernereinschätzungen von Feedback-Effektivität
  Rütti-Joy, Olivia, Stiftung Sprachen und Kulturen (2019) | Journal article

• Speeches, workshops, podcasts
  4 publications

  2023 2022

  Fostering and Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Oral Teacher Language Competence through an Assessment Rubric and Peer Feedback: An LSP Approach
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, English Language Enrichment (ELE) Community of Interest Meeting, The University of Auckland (19.4.2023) | Conference

  Was macht formatives Feedback lernwirksam? – Neue Erkenntnisse aus drei Forschungs-Projekten
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF-SSRE), Lausanne (12.9.2022) | Conference

  How many roads... enseignant·e·s de langues en formation et en action
  Nora Kündig, Lindita Bakii, Stefania Crameri, Olivia Rütti-Joy, Vincenzo Todisco, Martina Zimmermann, Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit/CeDiLE, Universität Fribourg. (2022) | Conference

  Interview mit David Berliner und Rich Shavelson an der PHSG
  Olivia Rütti-Joy, Horst Biedermann, David Berliner, Richard Shavelson, Pädagogische Hochschule St.Gallen, St.Gallen (2022) | Conference

Teaching and courses

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