Dr. Mirela Alhasani

Email malhasani@epoka.edu.al
Office Phone 1639

Primary Appointment
Lecturer - Center for European Studies

Education

Dr., Classic and Modern Philology in EAP/ESP, St.Kliment Ohridski University -, Bulgaria, Sofia, 2019

M. Sc., IR and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary, Budapest, 2004

P.M., Department of English Language, Aleksander Xhuvani University, Albania, Elbasan, 2002

B. Sc., Department of English Language, Aleksander Xhuvani University, Albania, Elbasan, 2002

Additional Affiliations

Member of the Women Democracy Network / Republican Institute USA- Country Chapter Albania

Member of the European Academic Writing Association –Dublin/ Ireland - USA

Albanian Political Science Association – Tirana Albania

ELTA – English Language Teachers Association

Member of the International Scientific and Advisory Board of the 3Third International ESP Conference and Summer School " Establishing the Predominant Position of ESP within Adult ELT" JULY 2017, Nis Serbia

Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Seminar “ESP and CLIL- Current Drivers of HEI Internationalization’ by Slovak University of Technology, 11-13 March 2021.Slovakia

Member of the Organizing Committee of the XI All-Russian (with International Participation) Students’ Scientific and Practical Conference on “Youth, Economics. Business”, at St. Petersburg University of Economics, 24-28 February 2021 , Russia. Best paper award to supervised student from her Master course.

Member of the Academic Association “Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education” (ICLHE) based at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. 2021 – Present

Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of TESOL Studies https://www.tesolunion.org/editorial_board/

Reviewer of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes. Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Emerging index/ Web of Science List

Member of the Scientific Committee of the IFEES/GEDC/EPOKA Conference 2023: Challenges in the Western Balkans: Infrastructure and Development in the Region. March 2023, Tirana, ALBANIA https://egi.epoka.edu.al/2023/category-conference-program-3089.html

Member of the Scientific Committee of Multi3Generation: Workshop on Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multitask Language Generation- Tampere, Finland -15 June 2023 https://multi3generation.eu/workshop/

Reviewer of the Journal Applied Linguistics by Oxford University Press.

Honors and Awards

University of Cambridge - ESOL Examinations Awarded Certificate of Teaching Knowledge Test for Speakers of Other Languages 24/02/2010

• Full Merit-based Scholarship for Master studies by Soros ‘Foundation. Budapest Hungary. 2003-2004

Open Society Institute- New York/ Budapest- Awarded Higher Education SCHOLARSHIP for Returning Scholars- HESP Project 2004-2005

Master Thesis research Grant by CEU at the Headquarters of the OSCE in Vienna, Austria. April -May 2004

Awarded the most original Bachelor Thesis at the 'Aleksander Xhuvani' university entitled "Albanian-American Diplomatic Relations 1991-2001".

Best Speaker of English Parliamentary Debate Sofia, Bulgaria 2000

Certificate of Appreciation by RECTOR of EPOKA University As Trainer of English Teaching Methodology to EPOKA Academic staff - 11.03.2021

Certificate of Appreciation by RECTOR of EPOKA University As Speaker in the workshop ‘Peace in the Balkans, Peace in Europe” Center of European Studies - 10.05.2018

Certificate of Appreciation by RECTOR of EPOKA University As Speaker in “Teaching Training for Academic Staff” by Academic Evaluation And Permanent Quality Board - 6.03.2017

Projects

CA 23105 : Language Plurality in Europe’s Changing Media Sphere (PLURILINGMEDIA), European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg University , Germany, Protecting Europe’s linguistic plurality and increasing multilingualism is a clear aim of the European Union and the Council of Europe, balanced against the concern of increasing dominance of larger languages – most prominently English.PLURILINGMEDIA intends to advance collaboration and bring coherence to the field of European media from the perspective of language plurality, encouraging involvement of scholars in related disciplines and facilitating knowledge transfer between academics., 10/2024 - ongoing

QAA QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Projects, London Metropolitan University, UK, Using Generative AI as a force for good to promote education for sustainable development and support the development of students' digital skills with a particular focus on mature and BAME students (project lead: London Metropolitan University), 03/2024 - ongoing

CA 21214: CLIL Network for Languages in Education: Towards bi/ multilingual disciplinary literacies, University of Vienna, Austria, This Action responds to the move into mainstream education of Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL), i.e., the teaching of non-language subjects through a foreign language. Ongoing challenges in CLIL practice and research negatively affect the realisation of CLIL’s full potential, which lies primarily in helping school-leavers achieve the competence to use at least one foreign language confidently for professional and academic purposes., 10/2022 - ongoing

CA21167 - Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive), Université Paris-Saclay Université Paris-Saclay, LISN,, Efficient access to the constantly growing quantities of data, especially of language data, largely relies on advances in data science. This domain includes natural language processing (NLP), which is currently booming, to the benefit of many end users. However, this optimization-based technological progress poses an important challenge: accounting for and fostering language diversity. The UniDive Action takes two original stands on this challenge., 09/2022 - ongoing

CA18209 - European network for Web-centred linguistic data science (NexusLinguarum) Downloads, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, The main aim of this Action is to promote synergies across Europe between linguists, computer scientists, terminologists, and other stakeholders in industry and society, in order to investigate and extend the area of linguistic data science. We understand linguistic data science as a subfield of the emerging “data science”, which focuses on the systematic analysis and study of the structure., 10/2019 - 2024-03-01

CA18231 - Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation, Inesc-ID. Human Language Technology Institute, Lisbon, Language generation (LG) is a crucial technology if machines are to communicate with humans seamlessly using human natural language. A great number of different tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) are language generation tasks, and being able to effectively perform these tasks implies (1) that machines are equipped with world knowledge that can require multi-modal processing and reasoning., 09/2019 - 2024-03-01

Clil-Het Visegrad, Slovak Institute of Technology, Bratislava, CLIL – Higher Education Teacher (CLIL-HET) Visegrad+ project focused on grouping ESP/CLIL specialists intending to develop a professional platform to share good practice, experience and the latest research findings leading to enhancing internationalization process in HEIs in V4 and Western Balkan region. The project partners from 6 countries Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Serbia and Albania started working on the project outcomes in 2019. We also studied the CLIL approaches ., 05/2018 - 2020-09-01

Courses Taught

International Organizations of Security- Tirana State University 2004-2008

History of World Civilizations - University of Durres 2006-2008

Introduction to Political Thought- University of Durres 2006-2008

Academic Writing - University of Durres 2006-2008

Academic and Diplomatic Writing - Diplomatic Academy of Albania 2005-2010

Academic Writing - Mediterrean University of Albania 2010-2012

Bus 108- Business English Current Epoka university

BUSAL 108- Gjuha Angleze ne Biznes Epoka University

Eng 109 - Development of Reading and Writing Skills in English - Epoka university

Eng 107- Core English- Epoka University

ENGAL 109- Zhvillimi i Aftesive ne SHkrim dhe LEXIM ne Anglisht

ENG 401 - ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING for GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Research Interests

English for Academic and Specific Purposes

Applied Linguistics

Politics of Language/multilingualism in EU

Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogic Issues

Publications

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