BETA Committee

Maria Momchilova is an assistant professor in the Department for Language Teaching and International Students at Sofia University. She teaches General and Business English to adults. She works in the field of ICT and FLT, Media and Cultural Studies, Global Issues.

Dr. Ellie Boyadzhieva is an associate professor in General linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages at the South-Western University of Blagoevgrad. She also gives lectures in English Studies and English grammar. Currently she is Head of the English Section at the Department. She was one of the founders of BETA in 1991 in Sofia and President of BETA between 2001 and 2005.

Tanya Ivanova has been a devoted teacher of English for many years. She finds her work with children extremely rewarding. She is also an Academic director at Prestige language school and a teacher-trainer for Sofia university. Tanya is especially interested in teaching English to young learners. She has delivered teacher training workshops at the British Council Summer Schools for primary English teachers, at Optima and Oxford Centre seminars.

Syana Harizanova is a lecturer in English and methodology at New Bulgarian University, in charge of the post-graduate retraining programme for primary teachers of English. A teacher trainer with the British Council for 15 years, she has carried out a lot of pre-service and in-service training, much of it oriented towards teaching English to young learners. She has been the Director of Studies of two British Council summer schools for primary teachers of English in Bulgaria.

Nikolina Tsvetkova has been a teacher of English since 1993 and a teacher trainer at Sofia University Department of Information and In-service Training of Teachers since 2001. She works in the field of intercultural education, integrating content and language, teaching English to young learners and materials design and has taken part in various projects in the above spheres. Nina has been the Director of Studies for several British Council Summer Schools for teachers of English in Sofia. She is co-author of a locally produced three-level primary English course book – Freeway (Bulvest 2000).

Stefka Kitanova has been teaching Biology and Chemistry in English and Spanish for more than 15 years now. For the last 10 years she has dealt with course development and pre-service and in-service teacher training in the field of CLIL/LSP and subjects thought in FL. She also works in the field of innovative approaches in language learning/teaching and opportunities for collaboration and cooperation at all levels of educational system. Stefka has been the coordinator and/or team member of several national and European projects on CLIL/LSP and has been running workshops, seminars and summer schools in the above spheres. She is a book author and has many publications in LSP.