Department 

of Foreign Languages

for Professional Communication

Nataliya Todorova

Head of Department,

Associate Professor, PhD (Philology)

Professional Profile

      Lecturer on Business Communication, Cross-Cultural Management, Business English

      Freelance translator, interpreter, translator trainer

      ESP Teacher trainer

Education

Faculty of Foreign Languages: English language and literature, Donetsk State University, Donetsk, Ukraine

Profile: Philologist. Instructor. Translator.

Higher education Diploma Cum Laude

Experience

        2003–present            Faculty of Economics and Management, Donetsk National Technical University, Donetsk, Ukraine

Department of Foreign Languages for Professional Communication – Head of department

        1994–2003                   Faculty of Economics and Management, Donetsk National Technical University, Donetsk, Ukraine

Associate Professor of International Business Department, head of the Foreign Languages Section

        1982-1994                     Donetsk State Polytechnic Institute, Donetsk, Ukraine

English Language department - English Language Instructor – teaching English for Technical/Special purposes

Qualification

      Traineeship at the Otto-von-Guerike University (Magdeburg, Germany) – December 2004, 2005, 2006

      Traineeship at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) – April 2005

      Postgraduate Course at Exeter University (Great Britain) 2004-2005 Ukrainian Trainer Training Certificate

      Curriculum development course at the College of St Mark and St John (Plymouth, Great Britain) April-May 2003, April-May 2004

      Workshop on Sales Technologies – Donetsk, Programme «Leaders of МBА», October 2003

      Workshop on Problem-based Teaching of Foreign Languages Lubljana, Slovenia – September 2003 – Certificate

      Traineeship at the Otto-von-Guerike University (Magdeburg, Germany) – April 2002

      Computed-assisted Language Learning Certificate - International Institute of Applied Linguistics, 2002

      TASIS training skills enhancement course – certificate - April 2002

      CEUME Summer school certificate– “Business Communication” – July 2001

      On-line Business English Course “Professional Communication 2000”

      National and Regional British Council workshops – 2000-2003

      CEP Regional workshop “Effective Learning, Effective Teaching” – Hungary, March 1999

      CEP Regional workshop “Learning and Teaching Strategies in Higher Education” – Hungary, March 1998

      USAID On-line course “Business English Teaching On-line” – certificate – 1998

      Traineeship at the Higher School of Utrecht (the Netherlands) – 1997

      USAID On-line course “E-mail and the Internet for EFL professionals” – certificate – November, 1997

      CEU/COLPI certified course “Business Law” – 1995

      Traineeship at Higher School of Utrecht (the Netherlands) - 1994

      Ph.D. (Philology) – candidate of philological sciences, 1987, Odessa State University (Odessa, Ukraine)

Specialty: English philology (Semantics and stylistics, comparison of Russian translations with English original).

Research

Up to 70 published papers on Philology and Linguistics, Pedagogy and Methods of Teaching during the last decade.

Topics of interest:

  European Communicative integration

   Total Quality Management in Language Teaching and Learning

  Computer-assisted Language Learning

  Psychology of Student-teacher interaction

  Stylistics and semantics in onomastics

Projects

        British Council and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine project on National Independent testing in English

        British Council and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine project on ESP National Curriculum development

        German-Ukrainian joint training web-based seminar “Cross-border Management and Communication: German-Ukrainian Perspectives”

        Internet-based web-site on the courses “Business Communication in English” and “Cross-cultural Management”

Membership in Professional Organizations

EDINEB – Educational Innovations In Economics and Business - Maastricht, the Netherlands  - since 1997.

IATEFL International – since 2002

IATEFL Ukraine – since 2002

TESOL Ukraine – since 2003

Expertise

Foreign Languages: English, French, Serbian

Software:   MS Office, Marcomedia Dreamweaver, Uniscape Translator Studio. Trados

Contact Info

e-mail:     [email protected]

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URL:           http://home.skif.net/~todorov/

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