Irena Kruopiene
Director, Lingua Lituanica
Doctor of Humanities, Director of Language Practice Centre LINGUA LITUANICA, Associate Professor of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
2007 - 2009Pedagogic Experience: position at Vilnius University from 1984 to 2007 (May), position at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre since September 2007. Various disciplines of Lithuanian teaching to Lithuanian students and foreigners: language culture, pronunciation and accentuation, language for special purposes, general Lithuanian etc. Giving lectures to teachers at the Teacher Professional Development Centre; participating in different Winter and Summer language courses.
Projects: Socrates Lingua 1 – distance Lithuanian language course development for the Lithuanian language website ( www.euro-languages.net ). Socrates Lingua 2 Oneness (distance courses of less used and taught languages) and Lithuanian phonetic course and task development ( www.oneness.vu.lt ).
Internships: Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Oxford University Press workshops in Vilnius.
Other Activities: board member of the Lithuanian Language Society, member of the Lithuanian Language Teachers Association.
