Associate Professor
Valentina Georgieva
HELPSec - Hybridisation of Specialised English Learning for Security Professionals
Bio
Assoc. Prof. Dr Valentina Georgieva is the Head of the Language Training Department at Rakovski National Defence College in Sofia, Bulgaria.
She has been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 1992 and has been in the military system for higher education in Bulgaria since 1999.
She has also been a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Texas State University (USA) in 2017 where she conducted research on designing online materials for adults. In 2016, 2017, and 2019 she was teaching English for Academic Purposes in pre-sessional courses to international students at the University of Hull (UK), and in 2010 she was a guest-lecturer at Erevan State University (Armenia) with a course of lectures on terminology.
Dr Valentina Georgieva holds a Master’s Degree in Russian and Bulgarian Philology from the University of Shumen and a Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Veliko Turnovo.
She defended her PhD thesis on the topic of Comparative Characteristics of English and Bulgarian Military Terminology (in the PSO domain) at the Institute for Bulgarian Language at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Her professional interests include research on terminology problems, EFL methodology, and intercultural studies.
She has published a coursebook English for the Military (2005), a monograph Military English:
From Theory to Practice (2015), a collection of Tests for the English Admission Exam at the Naval Academy (2006) (a co-author), Evaluation Model for Intercultural Learning Materials (2006) (a co-author), and more than 50 articles.
Abstract
Keywords: ESP, Hybrid Learning, Internationalisation of Education
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The goal of the presentation is to familiarize the ICLACOM participants with the project which has been approved for financing by the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU Commission as an international interdisciplinary project necessitated by the need to implement new IT technologies and up-to-date approaches in the English Language training of security specialists (military and civilian) at the three partner military HEIs:
- Rakovski National Defence College Bulgaria,
- Portuguese Military Academy
- Swedish Defence University, especially in light of the current COVID-19 global crisis.
The project goals and objectives, its content and intellectual products will be presented and some of the newly-designed activities will be demonstrated.