(BETA Bulgaria)
Dr Zhivka Stoyanova Ilieva
Zhivka Ilieva has been working in the sphere of ELT and teacher training for nearly 20 years. She is an associate professor of Methodology of English Language Teaching at Dobrich College, Shumen University. She presents at conferences dedicated to language teaching and teacher education in Bulgaria and across Europe. She gives seminars and workshops for student teachers and in- service teachers connected to storytelling and using picture books, communicative skills development, lexical approach with young learners. In 2014 she had a closed course at SEETA. As part of her investigation, she works with young learners at kindergarten and primary school at various institutions in Dobrich.
She has been a member of BETA since 2000. Since IATEFL EAST Plovdiv 2001 she has been a regular participant of BETA conferences. She has presented her ideas at LATEUM 2001, 2011, 2013; TESOL France 2007 and 2009, IATEFL 2014 and 2017, TESOL Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece 2012, 2016, 2017, ELTA Serbia 2014, NBR 2016 and many others. She was BETA official representative at some of them.
Zhivka has been part of BETA Organizing committee since 2010. In the period 2010-2014, she was BETA Membership Secretary and 2014-2018 – BETA President. As president, some of her responsibilities are: BETA web site, coordinating the organization of the annual conferences, communication with the US Embassy in Sofia, British Council Bulgaria, publishers and sponsors. In 2015 she was responsible for the RELO grant for travel expenses of Bulgarian teachers to attend BETA 2015. She was responsible for the US Embassy travel grant for Bulgarian teachers to attend BETA 2016 and for the plenary speakers Dian Larsen-Freeman and Elka Todeva for The 1st FIPLV East European Regional Congress and The 26th BETA-IATEFL Annual International Conference 2017.
Zhivka Ilieva is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Scientists, BETA, BSBS, IATEFL, IATEFL Young Learners SIG, TESOL, AILA.
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