CV
| 2012 | assistant professor (University of Zadar) |
| 2011 | scientific associate in TEFL |
| 2011 | scientific associate in cognitive science |
| 2009 | PhD in applied (cognitive) linguistics/ SLA |
| 2002-present | TEFL and SLA section at English Department |
| 2000 | postgradute certificate in TEFL (The University of Reading) |
| 1996 | BA in English Language and Literature |
| 1996-2002 | English teacher and head of English studies (Aliter) |
Research interests
cognitive aspects of L2 acquisition and processing; applied cognitive linguistics; cognitive grammar; language and cognition; conceptualization, mental imagery and aspects of construal in the blind.
Graduate courses
Application of cognitive linguistics in learning and teaching L2
Learners with special needs: blindness and SLA
Language and cognition: from theory to application
Teaching English as a foreign language
Practicum
Other:
Member of the following projects:
- English in Croatia (No 0130514)
- Acquisition of English from the early age: analysis of learner language (No 130-1301001-0988)
International cooperation:
- 2008 visiting lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (intensive elective courses, international cooperation Zagreb-Mexico City)
- 2006 visiting lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (intensive elective courses, international cooperation Zagreb-Mexico City); visiting researcher at the Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Philosophy, UNAM (doctoral research)
- 2005 visiting researcher, UAQ, Querétaro, Mexico (MA research)
- 2004 visiting researcher, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA
Awards:
2007 Best student paper of the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Krakow 2007) (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojevic)
2006 University of Zagreb Award for Promoting International Cooperation (a joint award – members of TEFL and SLA Section, English Department, Faculty of Philosophy )
Selected bibliography:
1. Geld, Renata (coauthored with Ricardo Maldonado): Strategic construal of in and out in English PVs // Language Value, 3 (1), Multiword patterns: considering phrasal verbs and their underlying semantic systems. Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I: Castelló, Spain, 2011, pp. 76-113. http://www.languagevalue.uji.es/index.php/languagevalue
2. Geld, Renata: Topological and lexical determination in English PVs, // Language Value, 3 (1), Multiword patterns: considering phrasal verbs and their underlying semantic systems. Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I: Castelló, Spain, 2011, 49-75. http://www.languagevalue.uji.es/index.php/languagevalue
3. Geld, Renata: Konceptualizacija i vidovi konstruiranja značenja: temeljne kognitivnolingvističke postavke i pojmovi [Conceptualization and aspects of construal: fundamental cognitive linguistic premises and concepts] // Suvremena lingvistika. 62, 2006. pp. 183-211
4. Geld, Renata: Strateško konstruiranje značenja engleskih fraznih glagola [Strategic construal: English particle verbs] // Jezikoslovlje. 7.1-2, 2006. pp. 67-111.
5. Geld, Renata (coauthored with Mateusz Milan Stanojević): New current relevance in Croatian: epistemic immediacy and the aorist // Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality / Patard Adeline; Brisard, Frank (eds.). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. pp. 159-180.
6. Geld, Renata (coauthored with Stela Letica Krevelj): Centrality of space in the strategic construal of up in English particle verbs // Space and Time in Language // Brdar, Mario; Omazić, Marija; Buljan, Gabrijela; Bagarić, Vesna; Gradečak-Erdeljić, Tanja (eds.). Frankfurt / New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2011. pp. 145-166.
7. Geld, Renata (coauthored with Maja Šimunić): A case study of a blind speaker of English as L2 // Cognitive Approaches to English: Fundamental, Methodological, Interdisciplinary an Applied Aspects / Brdar, Mario; Omazić, Marija; Pavičić Takač, Višnja (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 403-430.
8. Geld, Renata (coauthored with Snježana Đurđek): Gradience in L2 procesing: the importance of the non-protoypical // Cognitive Approaches to English: Fundamental, Methodological, Interdisciplinary and Applied Aspects / Brdar, Mario; Omazić, Marija ; Pavičić Takač, Višnja (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 363-383.
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