PF JU - Katedra anglistiky - PhDr. Marie Ernestová

PhDr. Marie Ernestová

room: TL 306
phone: 387 773 204
e-mail: ernest@pf.jcu.cz

Summer semester courses 2009-10

Education:
Graduate, postgraduate study and Doctorate of Philosophy at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
A six-month study period at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Employment:

1970-1988	České Budějovice State School of Foreign Languages
1988 to date	English Dpt., Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia

Teaching Subjects:
Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics, English Morphology, English Lexicology and Stylistics, English-Czech Translation and Interpreting

Research and Professional Development:
Research into teaching methods (particularly reading problems) in EFL, general and applied linguistics, evolutionary changes in English grammar, phraseology and recent additions to English vocabulary

1987 to date	Participated actively (often by invitation and repeatedly) in a number of international and national conferences, world congresses and events, e.g.: Salamanca, Edinburgh, Berlin, Malmö, Brussels, Bratislava, Stavanger, Dublin, Lincoln, Turku, Vienna, Ljubljana, Tallinn, Huy, Faro, Toronto, Sofia, Budapest, Kecskemét, Plauen, Augsburg, Zagreb, Prague, Pardubice, Brno, Pilsen, Liberec, České Budějovice
1996	Co-chair, 11th World Congress on Reading in Prague
1981 to date	Official Translator and Adjudicator of the English and Czech Languages

Membership of Professional Societies and Professional Responsibilities:

Member	International Reading Association
Member	Association of Czech Teachers of English
Vice-Chair	Czech Reading Association
Czech Republic Representative on the International Development in Europe Committee (IDEC)
Member of Executive Board of the Modern Philologists´ Association (South Bohemia Region)

Publications

Extra-Curricular Activities:
Public Librarian
Reading
Travelling
Folk Dancing
Local Nature Conservation
Lace Making and Embroidery
Gardening