October 2018, Expert panel discussion invitation, POA in China, Budapest, Hungary
From 5 to 7 October 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Innovative Foreign Language Education in China: Production-oriented Approach in the Multicultural Contexts, was organised by the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), a prestigious university in China under the direct leadership of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and co-hosted by Department of English Applied Linguistics and […]
September 2018, Participation Autumn School, Thessaloniki, Greece
Andreea Dinca attended SECL II 2018 – School on Experimental and Corpus Linguistics, held at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Thessaloniki, Greece, between 25 and 29 September 2018. SECL II was a three-day compact course on Experimental and Corpus Linguistics. The participation at this autumn school aimed at gaining more knowledge in the field of […]
September 2018, Published Volume by Springer
In September 2018, a volume on academic writing in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by three members of the ROGER team (Madalina Chitez, Claudia Doroholschi and Otto Kruse), and two other colleagues, Dumitru Tucan, also from UVT, and Łukasz Salski from Poland, has been published by the presigious publisher Springer International Publishing: University Writing in Central […]
August 2018, SIG writing Conference, Antwerp, Belgium
Claudia Doroholschi presented the paper “BA and MA students’ perceptions on the supervisory relationship: a European context”, co-authored with Mira Bekar and Kristin Solli, within the SIG Writing 2018 Conference held in Antwerp, Belgium, in August 2018. Abstract: The paper examines student perspectives on the complexity of the thesis writing process with special focus on […]
June 2018, Conference Future of Education, Florence, Italy
The paper presented by Madalina Chitez at the conference The Future of Education (Edition 8), Pixel International Conferences, held in Florence, Italy, between 28 and 29 June 2018, aimed at disseminating results from a teaching-inspired case-study: Using digital content to enhance education: vlogs as a resource for MA theses in linguistics. More information about the conference here and here Abstract: Much […]
June 2018, Conference Future of Genres, Oslo, Norway
Claudia Doroholschi presented the paper (co-authored with Mădălina Chitez) “The genre of ‘scholarly paper’ between tradition and innovation: a preliminary study at Romanian universities” at the international conference NFEAP 2018:The Future of Genres, held at the Oslo Metropolitan University in June 2018. More information here The paper by Claudia Doroholschi and Mădălina Chitez presented at the NFEAP Conference 2018: […]
May 2018, BAS conference, UVT, Timișoara, Romania
The Faculty of Letters, History and Theology of the West University of Timisoara, Romania organised the annual conference BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES / XXVIII between 17 and 19 May 2018. Madalina Chitez co-authored a paper with UVT colleague Cristina Baniceru (member of the Academic and Professional Writing Centre, CSAP) with the title: Academic Essay Writing in Romania: […]
April 2018, Departmental research-support workshop (2), UVT
Dr. Madalina Chitez was invited, after the success and positive feedback of the first workshop, to conduct a second workshop for faculty fellows. This time the workshop proposed several modalities of writing research proposals. Exercises for proposal text writing made the workshop highly interactive.
February 2018, COST conference participation, Winterthur, Switzerland
From 7 to 9 February 2018 the ELN Conference was organised in Witherthur. Switzerland, by the Language Competence Centre of the Zurich University of Aplied Sciences, for all working groups int he COST-Action IS1401. Members had the chance to present their outputs and completed works in the last three years within the COST-Action as well […]
January 2018, Departmental research-support workshop (1), UVT
Dr. Madalina Chitez was invited by the Research Unit Director of the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, Assist. Prof. Valy Ceia, to conduct a workshop for faculty fellows. The workshop Drumul către proiectul de cercetare: provocări, experiențe, sugestii (The Road to the Research Project: Challenges, Experiences, Suggestions) was centred round the topic of project funding resources. […]
