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title: Dr. Verena Möller
url: "https://www.zib.education/en/team/dr-verena-moeller/"
date: 2025-11-12
modified: 2026-03-04
lastUpdated: 2026-03-04
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# Dr. Verena Möller

Dr. Verena Möller
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Research Associate | TUM

 Verena Möller joined the PISA team at the Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB) in October 2025. She works as a research associate in science communication for PISA 2025 and the ZIB

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  Vita
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- Research associate at TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Centre for International Student Assessment (since October 2025)
- Secondary school teacher for English, French, Psychology, Media Literacy and educational counsellor at Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (09/2001-09/2025)
- Diploma in Journalism at Freie Journalistenschule Berlin (06/2023-05/2025)
- Scientific collaborator at Université catholique de Louvain, Institute for Language & Communication, Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (07/2016-10/2023)
- Scientific collaborator at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Collaborative Research Centre 833 (06/2017-01/2018)
- PhD in Computational Linguistics (with distinction) at Université catholique de Louvain, Institute for Language & Communication, and Universität Hildesheim, Institute for Information Science and Language Technology (01/2011 – 03/2016)
- Trainee teacher for Englisch and French at Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (09/1999-07/2001)
- MA and Teaching Qualification for Secondary Schools in English and French Language and Literature at Universität Stuttgart, University of Kent at Canterbury and Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (10/1992-09/1999)

   Research interests
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- Learner corpora with innovative metadata
- Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Learning
- Interactions between strands of the system of education, cognitive and affective learner variables and foreign language writing skills
- Interactions between teaching materials, teaching methodologies and foreign language writing skills

   Activities
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- PISA 2025 Science communication
- ZIB Science communication

   Selected publications
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- **Möller, V.** (2020). From pedagogical input to learner output: Conditionals in EFL and CLIL teaching materials and learner language. *Pedagogical Linguistics,* 1(2)*.* [doi: 10.1075/pl.00001.mol](https://benjamins.com/catalog/pl.00001.mol)
- **Möller, V.** (2018). Promoting bilingualism at the primary and secondary level: The role of intelligence, motivation and anxiety. *International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.* [doi: 10.1080/13670050.2018.1559795](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2018.1559795)
- **Möller, V.** (2017). *Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings. Learner Corpus and Experimental Evidence on Passive Constructions.* Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [doi: 10.1075/scl.80](https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.80)
- **Möller, V.** (2017). A statistical analysis of learner corpus data, experimental data and individual differences: Monofactorial vs. multifactorial approaches. In P. de Haan, S. van Vuuren & R. de Vries. *Language, Learners and Levels: Progression and Variation*. Corpora and Language in Use – Proceedings 3. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain. 409-439.

[List of publications](https://www.zib.education/fileadmin/Dokumente/Mitarbeiter/moeller_verena_publications.pdf)

   Find me
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[ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Moeller) [LinkedIN](https://www.linkedin.com/in/verena-moeller-language-communication/?locale=en_US)