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Section 7:
Biographies of contributors
Atanasoska, Tatjana was born in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia but
raised in Austria. There she studied German Philology, DaF/DaZ, Linguistics and
Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna. She ended her studies in June 2008. Her
Master’s thesis was titled Mother language tuition and language identity in Umeå,
Northern Sweden. From 2005-2007 she was a mother tongue teacher in Umeå, Sweden.
In 2007/08 she was working at a teacher college in Toruń, Poland, and in autumn 2008
she will begin her job at the University in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.
Brogan, Kristin has been a lecturer in German since 1994. She teaches third-level
Business, Science and Engineering at various levels. EU language projects since 2003
– quality manager role and design of modules. Co-founder of language network (IoT
language policy and planning network) for the Institute of Technology sector, active
promotion of the learning of languages, e.g. organisation of public lectures and
conferences. Presenting of papers (national and international) on an ongoing basis,
currently registered as a PhD student in linguistics and intercultural communication.
Teaching German at primary level since 1996. Member of IAM, IRAAL, GDI (Chair
of regional group).
Butler, Adrian has worked for the Council of Europe for 30 years in a number of
different sectors of the organisation's activity. He was Executive Director of the ECML
from 2003-2008, bringing the first medium-term programme to a close, steering the
Centre through its second and launching the third. He has now returned to the
headquarters of the Council in Strasbourg, working in the Directorate General of
Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport (DG IV).
Crochot, Françoise has conducted various research projects in the area of language
teaching methods and then policy for over 20 years, alongside her work teaching
French as a foreign language and then German. She is also involved in initial teacher
training. Drawing on the field she is most familiar with, i.e. French and German, she is
currently seeking to help promote plurilingualism, which she covered in 2006 in a
Master’s thesis under the direction of Michel Candelier. In her studies for this Master’s
in language policy and teaching methods, she focused in particular on the approaches
to intercomprehension between the speakers of different languages and contributed to
their promotion by the DGLFLF (General Delegation for the French Language and the
Languages of France), a department of the French Ministry of Culture and
Communication.
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