Mª DAFNE SOLÁ PARERA
Place and date of birth: Barcelona, ????4-6-1966
e-mail: dafne.sola@euroaula.com
ACADEMIC DEGREES
October 1984 – June 1989 Degree in English and German Philology; Autonomous University of Barcelona.
August 1989 - July 1991 Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics (Specialty: Teaching of Foreign Languages ??/TEFL); University of South Carolina, United States.
February 2006 Doctorate in Humanities
Field: Comparative Literature
Thesis title: “Searching for an identity and canonical discourse: the rewriting of Rhys and Coetzee in Wide Sargasso Sea and Foe.”
Department of Humanities
Pompeu Fabra University
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
March 1989 Selected by the Department of English Philology of the UAB for the Exchange Program with the University of South Carolina.
COURSES AND SEMINARS
July and August 1995 Summer course for teachers of English
Scope: Training of trainers [Teacher Training]
British Institute, Cambridge.
October 94 - March 97 English translation courses I, II, III; School of Modern Languages; University of Barcelona.
27 – 31 October 2008 Participation in the exchange program for teachers in the so-called Life Long Learning Program [10 hours]
Uncle University of Applied Sciences
Eindhoven, Netherlands
1996 - present Member of APAC (Association of English Teachers of Catalonia) and annual attendance at the Pedagogical Conference on English organized by this organization.
Last days:
25-27 February 2010: Skills for Life: ELT and Education,
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (20 hours)
24-26 February 2011: Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (16 hours)
21-23 February 2013: The Value of English. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (18 hours)
20-22 February 2014: English in Action 24/7
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (18 hours)
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English: Philologist, two years in the US, and usual language in the professional field.
French: Oral and written proficiency (Diploma of the French Institute of Barcelona, ????June 1982).
German: Intermediate level [3 courses in the English Philology degree and an additional course at the Brighton school].
Chinese: Basics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 – present Head of the Department of Foreign Languages
University School of Tourism EUROAULA
[Center attached to the University of Girona]
2009 - present Full Professor of English – Degree in Tourism
University School of Tourism EUROAULA
[Center attached to the University of Girona]
2002 – 2009 English teacher – Higher Level Training Cycles, EUROAULA
1995-2004 Written translations and liaison translation services (English – Catalan/Spanish). Occasional collaboration with the translation agency RC (Barcelona)
1991 –2009 English teacher
Tourism Studies [TEAT and Diploma in Tursime]
EUROCLASS
March – October 1992 Organizing Secretary of the ALAI Study Days (International Literary and Artistic Association); Sitges, October 3-8, 1992.
1989 – 1991 Spanish teacher; Department of Spanish; University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
REFERENCES
From any of the named sites (will be sent upon request).