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Inesa Šeškauskienė

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Inesa Šeškauskienė
 
PhD, Associate Professor
 
Graduated from the Department of English Philology of Vilnius University (1988), completed doctoral studies and defended a PhD thesis on spatial relations in English and Lithuanian in Vilnius University (1995). Has been lecturing at the Department of English Philology since 1994. 2001-2008 was head of Department.
 
Courses taught: English lexicology, research-in-progress seminar, academic discourse (English philology undergraduate study programme); cognitive linguistics, research paper writing, research-in-progress seminar (English linguistics and English studies graduate study programmes); the language of criminal law, research-in-progress seminar (Legal English graduate study programme), research seminar (Applied Linguistics graduate study programme).
 
Research interests: lexical semantics, pragmatics, academic discourse, cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, ESP (legal English), language acquisition, ELT.
Has been on study leaves in Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK (Oxford Hospitality Scheme, 1999), English Department, University of Uppsala, Sweden (Swedish Institute grant, 1999 ), Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada (Faculty Enrichment Program launched by the Canadian Government, 2002 ), a sabbatical at the Department of Linguistics, University of California in Berkeley, USA (Fulbright grant, six months, 2011). Has collaborated with the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education since 2002; has worked as a study programme expert (in the fields of English philology and linguistics) and chair of the English Philology qualifications examination panel.Has collaborated with the National Examination Centre since 2003.
E-mail: inesa.seskauskiene@flf.vu.lt
More information: http://web.vu.lt/flf/i.seskauskiene/
 
Projects


  • 2005-2006 EU SF funded project I write, therefore I am aimed at implementing a programme for improving the qualifications of English teachers in cooperation with the National Centre of Teacher Competence. Chair of group of university lecturers.

  • 2006-2007 Leonardo da Vinci Project No. LT/06/EX/2/1051. Foreign language for specific (Professional) purposes (law and economics): innovative trends and university teacher development. Project Coordinator – Department of German, University of Vilnius.

  • 2006 – 2010 Co-ordinator of the national team participating in the EC Lingua-2 Project No. 2006-2441/001-001 EUROPODIANS Language courses for modern technologies Project Coordinator – Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain. http://www.europodians.eu

  • 2007-2010 EC Lifelong Learning Erasmus Network Project LANQUA. Project coordinator – University of Southampton, Jungtinė Karalystė. www.lanqua.eu

  • 2009-2011 National project ECTS conception: harmonisation of credits, setting up and implementing a methodology for preparing study programmes based on learning outcomes. Expert, coordinator of a group of university lecturers of English Philology. http://www4066.vu.lt