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Prof. Dr. Tanja Angelovska is Professor and Chair of Research on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching of English (German: Fremdsprachenlehr- und -lernforschung: Didaktik der englischen Sprache) at the University of Kassel.

Her work bridges psycholinguistic, cognitive, and didactic approaches to second and third language acquisition and teaching, with research interests including multilingualism, language processing, instructed acquisition, inclusive language education, and individual learner differences. She obtained both her graduate degree (Master of Arts) and PhD in English Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Angela Hahn. Tanja Angelovska completed her "Habilitation" (titled "Comprehension and Production in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Accounts and Teaching Implications") at the University of Salzburg, where she collaborated very closely with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Roehm. Prior to joining the University of Kassel in 2024, she held positions as a predoc and postdoc at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and assisstant professor and later associate professor at the University of Salzburg.

Prof. Angelovska is actively engaged in international research collaborations and has long-standing partnerships with Prof. Dr. Roberto Heredia at the Brain & Cognition Lab at Texas A&M University (USA, since 2019) and Prof. Dr. John Schwieter at the Language Acquisition, Multilingualism & Cognition (LAM-C) Lab at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada, since 2018) and is a previous international member of the Centre for Research and Enterprise in Language (CREL) at the University of Greenwich (UK, since 2019) and the Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Language Sciences and Education (CARILSE) at the University of Portsmouth (UK, since 2018). She also served as an international postdoc research fellow of the Leverhulme Trust, completing her one-year postdoc fellowship at the University of Greenwich (with Prof. Dr. Alessandro Benati).

She serves as Associate Editor of Ampersand: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences and Bilingualism (Elsevier) and is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals, such as Instructed Second Language Acquisition, the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, and others. She is a regular reviewer for a range of high-impact journals and international publishers such as Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Bloomsbury, Wiley, and Springer. She also serves as an ad-hoc grant reviewer for national and international research councils, including the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the Austrian National Bank (ÖNB), the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG), and the National Science Centre of Poland.

Over the course of her career, she has secured a total of 13 research grants from leading funding bodies, including the DAAD, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Leverhulme Trust, Lehre@LMU Exzellenz, University of Greenwich, Bayerische Forschungsallianz, Stadt & Land Salzburg, ÖAD, EU, NAWA, and ZFF-Pilot (University of Kassel), among others. Her projects address key issues such as multilingualism, third language acquisition, language processing, bilingual education, the effects of attention and hyperactivity on communication, and the integration of research into teaching. She has authored more than 50 publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, edited volumes, encyclopedia entries, and teaching materials. She has served as supervisor for 5 PhD students (three ongoing as lead supervisor) and as secondary supervisor for 5 completed doctoral projects, in addition to supervising over 20 master's students to successful completion.