simona mačėnaitė

lecturer of lithuanian and english languages

Interests

Teaching of Lithuanian and English as a foreign language

Education

M.A. in General Linguistics (Cum Laude). Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, 2014–2016.

Erasmus study exchange. Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic, 2012/9−2013/2.

B.A. in Lithuanian Philology. Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, 2010–2014.

 

Work experience

  • From 2016/12/01 – Language and culture institute LINGUA LITUANICA (Vilnius, Lithuania). Responsibilities: teaching of Lithuanian as a foreign language, preparing study material and actively participating in activities aimed at improving the quality of teaching in the institute.
  • 2017/2–2017/6 – Cultural organization „Laisva Lietuva“ (Tandil, Argentina). Responsibilities: teaching Lithuanian language and organizing Lithuanian Ethnoculture events.
  • 2016/9–2017/2   – Training centre „AudioGil“ (Castellon de la Plana, Spain). Responsibilities: teaching English and Russian to Spanish speakers, helping during the official Spanish language level exams (DELE). 

Courses

  • 2020-09-30 TEFL (120 h course) 
  • 2020-09-18 Learning to teach online, online course by The University of New South Wales 
  • 2021-03-21 Classroom-based Research for Professional Development, 5-week workshop programme offered by Electronic Village Online (EVO)

Internship

  • 2014/9/12–10/30 – Language and culture institute LINGUA LITUANICA (Vilnius, Lithuania). The internship comprised of substituting teachers of Lithuanian as a foreign language and editing a distance learning course as well as other study material. The internship later lead to employment in the institute.

Languages

Lithuanian (native), English (C1 IELTS), Spanish (B2 DELE), Russian (basics).