MARIA N. ZLATEVA
Assistant Professor Associate Director/ESL CAS Writing Program Boston University
Address and Contact Information CAS Writing Program 100 Bay State Rd. Boston , MA 02215 Fields of Expertise Theoretical Linguistics Applied Linguistics Composition Studies ESL
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002 – present: Director of English as a Second Language/Assistant Professor of English College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University 2002- 2008: ESL Instructor, Harvard Summer School 2000 – 2002: Preceptor, Institute for English Language Programs (IEL), Harvard University 2001 –2002: Consultant, English Language for Internationals Program, Suffolk University 1996-2000: Instructional Coordinator, Harvard University IEL 1995-1996: Instructor in French, Harvard University 1995: Teaching Fellow, School of Education, Boston University 1993-1996: Lecturer on French, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University 1992-1993: Lecturer in ESL: CELOP, BU; Roxbury College 1987-1991: Research Scientist, Laboratory for Linguistic Modeling, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Joint researcher with: CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), University of Paris VII, France Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Saarbrücken, Germany Center for Cognitive Science, Roskilde University, Denmark 1987-1991: Adjunct Assistant Professor, English Department, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philologies, Sofia University, Bulgaria. 1985-1987: Research Scientist in Comparative Linguistics and Translation, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1979-1991: Interpreter and Language Consultant for official institutions and foreign delegations, European Union International Experience
Research Fellow in computational linguistics, German Science Foundation and DAAD, University of the Saarland, Germany (1989-1991) Visiting Scholar: Sweden (Lund University, 1991); Belgium (University of Leuven, 1990); Denmark (Roskilde University, 1990); Hungary (Budapest University, 1988); Czech Republic (Charles University, 1989); India (Delhi University, 1990; KMV, 2012); Hong Kong (CUHK, 2012). Professor in academic writing: SIE Summer School, East China Normal University, China, 2013
EDUCATION
1994: Post-graduate studies, Program in Applied Linguistics, GSAS, Boston University. 1986: Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/Sofia National University 1982: M.A. in Linguistics and Translation Theory, Sofia University. 1980: Graduate fellowship in Theory of Translation, Slavic Linguistics Department, Leeds University, UK 1979: B.A. in English, Sofia National University. Minor: French.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award – 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard IEL - 1995, 2001 Presidential University Teaching Fellowship, BU - 1993/94 Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, BU - 1992/93 Visiting Scholar grant from the Swedish Royal Academy, Lund University - 1991 Academic travel grant from the British Council, Oxford - 1989
PUBLICATIONS
19 articles in journals and conference proceedings; book chapters Selected Publications: “Guide for Multilingual Writers,” The New McGraw-Hill Handbook (2007) “Notes for Multilingual Students,” A Writer’s Resource (2006) “Cognitive Grammar,” Models of Functional Grammars. (Soros Award from the “Best Books of the Year” Elsevier Competition, 1991) “Cognitive and Linguistic Invariants in Interlingual Communication,” Lund Papers in Cognitive Science (1990) “Analysis of Interlingual Interference through Modeling of Linguistic Subsets,” CICL Publications (1989) “Some Manifestations of Syntactic Interference in Translation from English into Bulgarian,” Linguistic Problems of Translation (1987) “H. Beardsmore’s “Bilingualism: Main Issues and Principles,” Journal of Contrastive Linguistics 5 (1986) LANGUAGES French, German, Russian, Bulgarian, English
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
TESOL EATAW AAAL
TEACHING
Linguistics and TESOL Composition: College writing; Professional writing ESP and EAP: English for design; English for global business