Curriculum Vitae

of

Krassimira D. Charkova

I. PROFESSIIONAL

A. Present University Department/ Unit: Linguistics department, Southern Illinois

University at Carbondale

B. Contact Information

Office Address: Faner Hall 3223

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Carbondale, IL, 62901

Telephone: 618-***-****

Email: abp5al@r.postjobfree.com

II. EDUCATION

A. Degrees Received

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in Reading and

Language Arts, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA.

2001.

Superordination in children s word definitions as a function of number of

Dissertation:

languages studied at school and semantic category of the noun

MA TESOL, American University, Washington, DC and Southern Illinois

University at Carbondale, USA, 1995.

Research paper: Word definitions in first and second language: A study of Bulgarian-

English bilingual children

BA English Language and Literature, Veliko Turnovo University, Bulgaria,

1979.

B. Other Professional Training and Development

2003 Trainer Workshop, Bilingual Education in the USA, Carbondale, IL, USA, April.

1996 Trainer Trainer Workshop, Multimedia in Foreign Language Teaching, Graz,

Austria. June.

1996 Trainer Trainer Workshop, Language Teacher Training, Graz, Austria. April.

1995 Editorial apprentice, Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages, SIU in Carbondale,

US. Spring Semester.

1992 TESOL Summer School, Bratislava, Slovakia, June-August.

1992 British Council Teacher Training Course, Sofia, Bulgaria, June-July.

1989 University Instructor Qualification, Sofia University, Bulgaria.

1986 British Council Summer Institute for EFL Teachers., July-August.

1986 British Council Teacher Exchange Project, London, England, April.

1982 British Council Teacher Exchange Project, London, England, June.

III. EXPERIENCE

A. Current Appointment

2007- present Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University

at Carbondale.

2001- 2007 Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Southern Illinois University

at Carbondale.

Courses Taught at the Department of Linguistics, SIUC

Graduate Level: 583 TESOL Practicum; 573 Computer Assisted Language

Learning (CALL); 572 Materials Development in TESOL;

570 Theory and Methods; 472 Assessment of Language Minority

Students; 401 General Linguistics; 549 Research Methods;

505 Professional Study of Linguistics, 580 Vocabulary Building

in Language Teaching, 573 Teaching Reading in Second

Language, 599 Thesis

Undergraduate Level: 454 Observations in TESOL; 200 Language, Society and the

Mind; 320-I Language, Gender and Power; 300 Descriptive

Linguistics; 440 Teaching Reading in Second

B. Previous Experience

1998-2000 Graduate Assistant, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC,

Southern Region Early Childhood Programs (Computer data entry and

data processing).

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1989-1998 Senior assistant professor, Department of English Studies, Plovdiv

University, Bulgaria.

Courses taught: English Language Teaching Methodology, Introduction to

Sociolinguistics, Academic Writing, Pedagogical Grammar, Teaching

Practicum, Translation, Advanced English-integrated skills.

1979-1989 Teacher, English Language High School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Classes taught: all levels of English, from beginner to advanced;

Geography and Chemistry in English, British and American literature

C. Other related experience

1997

(Summer) EFL Teacher, Peanuts English Language School, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

1995-1996 Instructor, Fulbright Foundation Bulgaria, TOEFL Preparation Courses.

1995-96 Translator, Union of Scholars, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1993 Interpreter, PHAR PROJECT, Sofia, Bulgaria.

1993 Interpreter, FDA Conference, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1992-93 Supervisor of the Teaching Practicum, In-service Teacher Training

Institute, Bulgaria (organized by the British Council).

1992 Instructor, University of Delaware Project in Bulgaria (business English).

1992 Teacher Trainer, In-service Teacher Training Program, Bankya, Bulgaria

(organized by USIA).

1991-1992 Teacher Trainer, MEL English Language School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

1989-1991 Teacher, ALIS Private School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (EFL for adults,

advanced)

IV. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

A. Interests and Specialties:

Second Language acquisition

The role of the learning environment, ESL vs. EFL in the acquisition of second

language grammar and vocabulary; Second language acquisition and

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metalinguistic development; Independent learning strategies in the acquisition of a

second language.

Teacher Training

Reflective teaching and observation; In-depth vocabulary teaching by the use of

concordances and collocations; The Cognitive approach, The Lexical approach

and Schema theory in preparing second language teachers for teaching reading

and vocabulary in a second language.

B. Current Projects: A quantitative research project which aims to examine the

relationship between depths of vocabulary knowledge and second language learners

vocabulary learning strategies within foreign and second language learning environments.

C. Grants Applied for : TESOL research grant for research on the relationship between

second language teachers L2 competence and students language achievement 2004.

D. Grants Received: None

E. Honors and Awards :

Dissertation Award Scholarship, Graduate School and College of Education at SIUC,

2000-2001.

Ph.D. Study Tuition Waiver Award, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC,

1997-2000.

British Council Award for International Symposium Theory in Teacher Training,

Edinburg, Scotland, November, 1996.

Hall of Nations Award, American University, Washington DC, 1994 -1995.

Fulbright scholarship for two-year graduate study at the American University in

Washington DC, US, 1993-1995.

F. Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2009). Second and foreign language variation in tense

backshifting in indirect reported speech. Paper presented at the Linguistics

Luncheon Series, October 23rd, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA.

Charkova, K. (2009). Using concordances and collocations in teaching second language

vocabulary. Workshop for teachers of English at Europe Schools, Region of

Plovdiv, Bulgaria. August 14th.

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Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2008). Grammatical and pragmatic variation in second and

foreign language use of tense backshifting in indirect reported speech. Paper

presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied

Linguistics, March 28th April 2nd, 2008 in Washington, D.C., USA.

Charkova, K. (2007). Slang and second language acquisition: A study of Bulgarian

English bilinguals. Paper, presented at the 6th International Symposium on

Bilingualism, May 30th- June 2nd, Hamburg, Germany.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2007). To backshift or not to backshift: A comparative

study of ESL and EFL bilinguals with Native Speakers. Paper presented at the 6th

International Symposium on Bilingualism, May 30th- June 2nd, Hamburg,

Germany.

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2006). Backshifting in reported speech: Do native and

non-native speakers employ it in the same way Paper presented at the Mid-

America Linguistics Conference, October 27-28th, Southern Illinois University at

Edwardsville, USA.

Charkova, K. (2003).Early foreign language education and metalinguistic development:

A study of monolingual, bilingual and trilingual children on noun definition tasks.

Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, April 29th

May 3rd, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA.

Charkova, K. (2000). Word definitions in first and second language: A study of

Bulgarian-English bilingual children. Paper presented at Linguistics Luncheon

Series, Southern Illinois University, April 28th, 2000.

Charkova, K. (1998). Quality in teacher education. An international teacher

training workshop with the assistance of the British Council, the French

Language Institute, the German Language Institute, and the European Center for

Modern Languages, Graz, Austria. Co-animator and organizer, April 5th April

8th, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Charkova, K. (1997). Reflective models of language teacher education: An integration

of theoretical with competency-based training in an awareness-raising context.

Workshop Coordinator. Teacher training workshop sponsored by the European

Center for Modern Languages, December 15- 21st, Graz, Austria.

Charkova, K. (1996).Connecting theory with practice in an awareness-raising context

Integrating the ELT methodology course with reflective observation. Paper

presented at the Edinburgh Symposium on Theory in Teacher Training,

November 13-15.

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Charkova, K. (1992). Towards an Integration of the Academic Curriculum. Paper

presented at the First Bulgaria IATEFL International Conference, Sofia,

Bulgaria, May 5-8th.

V. PUBLICATONS AND CREATIVE WORKS

A. Books None

B. Articles in Professional Journals

Charkova, K., & Halliday, L. (2011). Second and foreign language variation in tense

backshifting in indirect reported speech. To be published in the Spring issue

(2011) of Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Charkova, K.D. (2007). A language without borders: English slang and Bulgarian

learners of English, Language Learning Journal, 57, 3, 369-416.

Charkova, K.D. (2004). Early foreign language education and metalinguistic

development: A study of monolingual, bilingual and trilingual children on noun

definition tasks, The Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 3, 51-88,

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

C. Creative Contributions: None

D. Chapters in Professional Books: None

VI. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. Teaching Interests and Specialties: L2 theory and methods, TESOL practicum,

Teaching L2 vocabulary, Teaching L2 reading, Testing and assessment, Introduction to

linguistics, Materials development, Quantitative and mixed-design research methods,

Applied Statistics (descriptive, univariate: correlation, t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and

multivariate analyses: MANOVA, MANCOVA, Discriminant function analyses, and

Factor analyses.

B. Teaching and Training Grants: None

C. Teaching Awards and Honors

Nomination for best lecturer award by the Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal

Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA, 2004.

D. Current Graduate Faculty Status:

Adjunct with provision enabling service as regular graduate faculty on Linguistic student

committees and to serve as chair on thesis committees.

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E. Master s Theses completed under my direction (9).

1) Ben Said, Selim (Applied Linguistics, completed 06/28/2006)

Thesis title: Attitudes to Accented English: A Comparative Study of Native

and Non-Native Speakers of English.

2) Alenazi, Oudah (Applied Linguistics, completed 04/12/2006)

Thesis Title: Does this book help learners become better writers? A

triangulation of teacher-student attitudes to an ESL writing

book.

3) Le, Ly MA (TESOL, completed 07/02/2007)

Thesis title: EFL pronunciation problems: A study of Vietnamese EFL

Learners.

4) Akka, Aslihan (TESOL, completed 06/13/2007)

Thesis title: Student-professor email communication: Pragmatic markers of

student gender, status, and nationality.

5) Park, Heewon (Applied Linguistics and TESOL, completed 07/03/2008)

Thesis title: The effect of gender and length of study on the pronunciation of

certain English consonants: A case study of Korean EFL learners.

6) Erdemir, Aysegul (TESOL, completed 06/30/2008)

Thesis title: Multimedia-enhanced versus traditional vocabulary instruction:

Short-term and long-term effects on second language learners

receptive and productive knowledge.

7) CaoNgoc, Vien (TESOL, completed summer 2009)

Thesis title: Teaching efficacy of native and non-native teachers of English in

Vietnam: Triangulation of student teacher perceptions.

8) Huang, Li-Jung (Applied Linguistics and TESOL, completed fall 2009.

Thesis title: Resolving conflict in academic contexts: A comparison of US and

Taiwanese college students.

9) Lai, Yu-Ning (Applied Linguistics and TESOL, completed fall 2009.

Thesis title: The effect of length of stay in the US on Compliment responses of

Chinese speakers of English.

10) Jamal, Abedin (Applied Linguistics and TESOL)

Thesis title: Attitudes toward Hazaragi.

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11) Phu Vu (TESOL)

Thesis title: Historical and Current Perspectives on the Specialized

English Major Program in Vietnam: A Case Study

F. Master s Theses under my direction in progress (2)

1) James Ahikpa (Applied Linguistics)

Thesis topic: The effect of animated and still cartoons in second language

acquisition

2) Daniel Norris:

Thesis topic: Attitudes of US college students to the study of foreign

languages

G. Master s theses, committee member (completed 24)

1) McMichael, Amanda (09/13/2002)

Thesis title: Abstand and ausbau abroad: Language attitudes of English

bilingual Bosnians in St. Louis.

2) Melo, Fabiane (03/04/2003)

Thesis title: Analysis and proposal for use of ESL textbooks in the Brazilian

Context.

3) Joung, Eunmi (04/08/2003)

Thesis title: Gender-related attitudes and behaviors in the ESL classroom.

4) Wu, Jing-Huei (04/11/2003)

Thesis title: Re-examining the Critical Period Hypothesis: Recent research in

neurolinguistics of bilingualism

5) Hurley, Jill (06/09/2004)

Thesis title: Interpretation of conversational implicature by native and non-

native speakers of English.

6) Kim, YouJin (06/18/04)

Thesis title: Perceptions of American slang: A comparison of native and non-

native English speaking university students.

7) Hodis, Georgeta (06/06/2005)

Thesis title : Managing Intercultural Conflict.

8) Park, Kyae-Sung (12/06/2005)

Thesis title: L2 Acquisition of English Unaccusative Verbs by Native

Speakers of Korean.

9) Appiah-Kubi, Marian (04/12/2006)

Thesis title: Spelling and dyslexia: A phonological analysis of the spelling

errors of students with dyslexia.

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10) Vassileva-Karagyozova, Svetlana (04/07/2006)

Thesis title: Feminine or masculine? The case of gender preference in

occupational titles in the Bulgarian language.

11) Saengngoen, Jet (07/03/2006)

Thesis title: Contrasting narrative discourse style in Thai-English bilinguals.

12) Kim, Kyoung Sook (07/07/2006)

Thesis title: The interpretation and processing of English articles by native

speakers of Korean.

13) Bartolo, Irma (08/17/2006)

Thesis title: Word definitions by Spanish and English bilingual children from

low income families.

14) Yu, Shu-Ting (04/12/2007)

Thesis title: Understanding the use of vocabulary learning strategies from socio-

cultural perspectives: A comparative study of Japanese, Korean, and

Taiwanese EFL learners.

15) Saenkhum, Tanita (05/29/2007)

Thesis title: Transfer of knowledge from first-year ESL writing classes to

writing in the disciplines: Case Studies of writing across the

curriculum.

16) Liu, I-Chun (12/10/2007)

Thesis title: Cross-language transfer of phonological patterns: A case study of a

trilingual learner.

17) Kim, Hana (01/25/2008)

Thesis title: The interpretation of English pronouns by native speakers of Korean.

18) Coyne, Amanda Louise (04/07/2008)

Thesis title: Intergenerational patterns of phonological features and linguistic

attitudes of Cajun English speakers.

19) Burkardt, Brett (06/24/2008)

Thesis title: Acquisition sequence of the English interdental fricatives by Thai

ESL learners.

20) Binturki, Turki (06/30/2008)

Thesis title: Analysis of pronunciation errors of Saudi ESL learners.

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21) Summers, Kamden (fall 2008)

Thesis title: A diachronic and theoretical analysis of the initial Celtic consonant

mutations in Irish and Welsh.

22) Cook, Sheri (fall 2009)

Thesis title: Vlogs: The deaf community in the communication age.

23) Kimberly Berger (fall 2009)

Thesis title: Deaf bilingual education: return to our ASL roots.

24) Hideko Teruya (fall 2009)

Thesis title: The effect of syntactic priming on the L2 production of relative

clauses in English by Japanese-English Bilinguals.

25) Chuang, Hsun-Yu

Thesis title: Perceptions and attitudes towards accentedness of

international student teaching assistants in the US.

26) Wilkerson, Lonnie

Thesis title: A radical connectionist model of phonemic acquisition in a

swarm-based system: Coaxing deep structure out of shallow architecture.

27) Bohm, Susanne

Thesis title: Clicks in African languages

H. Master s theses in progress, committee member (5)

1) Andrew Edelen

Thesis title: Origin of reindeer Herding Terminology among the

Circumpolar Languages

2) Patrick Mthethwa

Thesis topic: Second language teachers perceptions of the effectiveness of

multimedia instruction in Swaziland.

3) Philothe Kabasele

Thesis topic: Code-mixing between French and Lingala

4) Souad Kheder

Thesis topic: Comparative study of Maltese and Algerian Arabic

I. Number of Ph.D. Committees served and in progress (7):

1) Diana Trebing, Ph.D. in Speech Communication, SIUC, completed spring

2007.

Dissertation title: International teaching assistants attitudes toward teaching

and understanding of United States American undergraduate students.

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2) Mohammed Al-Nofli, PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, completed

spring 2009.

Dissertation title: Teacher perceptions of the importance and degree of

implementation of the social sciences curriculum in Oman.

3) Akkaya, Aslihan, Ph.D in Anthropology, SIUC, in progress.

Dissertation topic: Enthnographic study of Facebook

4) Fu, Yu-Shan, PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, completed, spring

2010.

Dissertation title: The effect of length of stay in the US on Chinese second

language speakers perception and production of

English interdental fricatives.

5) Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina, Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, in

progress.

Dissertation Topic: Multimedia instruction for second language acquisition

6) Heidy Carruthers, Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, in progress.

Dissertation Topic: Multimedia instruction for second language acquisition

7) Bilal Khaleel Younis, Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, in

progress.

Dissertation topic: Serious games design effective in teaching serious games

design skills.

VII. UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

A. Department Committees:

- Active in curriculum development, graduate admissions and assistantships.

(Note: Currently all committees in the department include all voting

faculty.)

- Member of the curriculum committee for the Center of English as a

Second Language, 2007-2008, 2008-2009.

B. College and University Committees and Councils:

- Department representative at the Chairs and Directors meetings in the College

of Liberal Arts, SIUC, 2007-2008.

- College of Liberal Arts Council, department representative, 2009-2010; 2010-

2011.

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C. Other:

- Graduate Advisor for MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics students:

2004-2005; 2005-2006; 2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010;

2010-2011.

- Faculty advisor for the Linguistics Student Association in the Department

of Linguistics, SIUC, 2006 -2007, 2007-2008.

VIII. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

A. Membership in Professional Associations

International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), 1988-

1997.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1999- 2003.

B. Offices Held and Honors Awarded in Professional associations

Regional coordinator, Organization Committee, Bulgaria Branch of IATEFL, 1991-93.

C. Consultantships:

2009, Summer. Cultural religions curriculum evaluation. OSCE, Sarajevo, Bosnia and

Herzogovina.

1990-1992 Curriculum development for MEL English Language School, Plovdiv,

Bulgaria.

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