Ivanka Marinova

    School of Modern Languages

    EAP Tutor

    About

    Academic Background

    • Certificate in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Trinity College London
    • BA in English Philology (Linguistics and Teaching), Plovdiv University, Bulgaria
    • MA in English (Applied Linguistics and Translation), Plovdiv University, Bulgaria

    Professional Experience

    • Maynooth University, School of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Current Position
    • English Teacher, ECM College - Dublin, Ireland (five years)
      • Taught general English and IELTS
    • University of Food Technologies, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
      • English Language Tutor (three years)
      • Senior English Language Tutor (two years)
      • Taught English as a foreign language to students and PhD candidates from the Technological Faculty
      • Created term tests and exam papers
      • Translated abstracts and academic papers for staff conferences abroad

    Research Interests

    • English Morphology, specifically Aspect, Tense, and Non-finite Verb Structures
    • Second Language Acquisition, particularly in English