Curriculum vitae
Europass
1.
Personal
information
Surname / First name
University professor
I
OAN
–
G
ABRIEL
L
ĂZĂRESCU
,
P
HD
University of Bucharest – The Faculty for Foreign Languages and Literatures Department for Germanic Languages and Literatures
Doctorate supervisor in PHILOLOGY / LINGUISTICS
Member in the Faculty Council of the Faculty for Foreign Languages and Literatures
Member in the Senate of the University of Bucharest
Vice-president of the Didactic Competitions Evaluation Committee within the Senate of the University of Bucharest
Member in the National Council for the Recognition of Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU)in the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research – Appeal Committee
Address Tineretului Blvd. No. 29, Bl. 19, Gate B, 4th floor, Ap.61; 040345 – Bucharest, Sector 4, Romania Telephone(s) 0040-21-3301591 Mobile: +40 722 143524 Fax 0040-21-3301591 E-mail Web-site [email protected] [email protected] www.unibuc.ro/prof/lazarescu_i_g/ Nationality Romanian Citizenship Romanian
Date and place of birth November 08, 1953, Bucharest Gender Male
Marital status - married (to Mariana Virginia Lăzărescu – University professor, PhD – University of Bucharest) – The Faculty for Foreign Languages and Literatures
- 1 child (Laura Lăzărescu – graduate of the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale", Bucharest), sound-designer, PhD, DArts
2. Education and
training
Studies
Year 1999 Qualification / obtained
diploma Doctoral degree "PhD in philology" – University of Bucharest – Title of the PhD thesis in German: magna cum laude
Die Paronymie als lexikalisches Phänomen und die Paronomasie als Stilfigur im Deutschen (Paronymy as lexical phenomenon and paronomasia as figure of style in German) – (the revised version of the thesis was published in 2000, Anima Publishers, Bucharest)
Year 1986 Qualification / obtained
diploma First didactic degree – mark 10 (ten) (of maximum 10) University of Bucharest Year 1983
Qualification / obtained
diploma Second didactic degree – mark 10 (ten) (of maximum 10) University of Bucharest Year 1979
Qualification / obtained
diploma Permanent teacher certification (RO: University of Bucharest definitivat) – mark 10 (ten) (of maximum 10) Study, research and
specialization grants
- 1992 – Research grant: Literary Society, Vienna/Austria (2 months) - 1994 – Research grant: DAAD: Erlangen University/Germany (2 months) - 1996 – Research grant: Archives in Marbach am Neckar/Germany (2 months) - 1998 – Mobility scholarship TEMPUS: Erlangen University/Germany (3 months) - 2002 – Research grant: Archives in Marbach am Neckar/Germany (3 months) - various specialization courses organized by Goethe Institut (Bremen, Berlin,
Munich) targeted on teaching German as a foreign language and by
Weiterbildungs-Test-Systeme in Germany, Frankfurt am Main, Strasbourg, Naples and Cracow targeted on German knowledge testing and evaluation for adult candidates
- 2007-2008 – Research grant: Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas/
Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich (2 months)
- 2008 – Research grant DAAD: Heidelberg University and Munich University, as well as the Institute for German Language in Mannheim (3 months)
Education
Interval 1972-1976
The University of Bucharest, Faculty of Germanic Languages German Major – English Minor
Bachelor degree in Philology (1976)
Graduation average score: 10 (ten) (of maximum 10): Valedictorian – Certificate of Merit
Interval 1960-1972
High School No. 21 in Bucharest, with German as teaching language
3. Professional
experience
Occupation / Sector University of Bucharest
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Department for Germanic Languages and Literatures Address Pitar Moş St. 7-11, Bucharest, Sector 1
Interval 2008 – present
Position University professor for German Language and Linguistics
since 2009 – accredited as doctorate supervisor in PHILOLOGY / linguistics (at present: 10 doctoral students)
Main activities and
responsibilities -Specialisation /Lecturesdiachronic linguistics (history of German language, comparative linguistics) : - lexicology, terminology
- linguistic varieties (diatopic and diastratic) - language for special purposes
- culture and civilization in the German-speaking area - language courses (grammar, vocabulary)
- continued education for teachers (exams for the permanent teacher certification, second degree and first degree in teaching)
- lectures for the Doctoral School “Languages and Cultural Identities”
Fields of research:
Synchronic and diachronic linguistics, lexicography, lexicology, contact linguistics, variation linguistics, contrastive linguistics, youth language, language for special purposes, didactics of German language
Author of course books for German language for high school and for adult courses
Project manager and researcher in various international and national research projects in diachronic, synchronic, variation and contact linguistics,
bilingualism, applied linguistics, language acquisition. Interval 2000 – 2008
Position Reader for German language
University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures German Studies Department
Main activities and
responsibilities -Specialisation /Lecturesdiachronic linguistics (history of German language, comparative linguistics) : - lexicology, terminology
- linguistic varieties (diatopic and diastratic) - language for special purposes
- culture and civilization in the German-speaking area - language courses (grammar, vocabulary)
- continued education for teachers (exams for the permanent teacher certification, second degree and first degree in teaching)
Fields of research:
Synchronic and diachronic linguistics, lexicography, lexicology, contact linguistics, variation linguistics, contrastive linguistics, youth language, language for special purposes, didactics of German language
Author of course books for German language for high school and for adult courses
Project manager and researcher in various international and national research projects in diachronic, synchronic, variation and contact linguistics, bilingualism, applied linguistics, language acquisition
Interval 1991 – 2000
Position Lecturer for German
University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures German Studies Department
Interval 1980 – 1991
Position Teacher of German
"Ion Neculce" High School in Bucharest, Sector 1 Interval 1977 – 1980
Position Teacher of German
Trade School No. 17 "Metrology" in Bucharest, Sector 4 Interval 1976 – 1977
Position Teacher of German
School No. 61 Dobroieşti, Ilfov County
4. Participation in
national and
international scientific
fora
Member of
1. The German Philologists’ Association in Romania 2. The German Teachers’ Association in Romania
3. IVG – Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (The International German Philologists’ Association)
4. MGV – Mitteleuropäischer Germanistenverband (The Central-European German Philologists’ Association)
5. IDV – Internationaler Deutschlehrerverband (The International German Teachers’ Association)
6. Österreichischer Deutschlehrerverband (The Austrian German Teachers’ Association)
7. Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung österreichischer und internationaler Literaturprozesse, Vienna (The Institute for the Research of Austrian and International Literary Processes)
8. Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL-e.V.) (The German Society for Applied Linguistics) (until 2013)
9. Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS – Wiesbaden) (The German Language Society, Germany)
10. Member of the international researchers’ group for youth language
- author of a German-Romanian slang dictionary, colloquial and youth language - guest speaker in 3 international congresses focussing on youth languages:
Wuppertal/Germany, Zürich/Switzerland, Copenhagen/Denmark
- member in the PhD commission of Laura Tidrike at the University of Riga/Latvia with a thesis on contrastive youth language analysis
11. Deputy Director of the "Paul Celan" Research and Excellence Centre of the University of Bucharest, established based on the Rector’s Resolution No. 1330/26.07.2006
12. Expert with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission in Brussels for university cooperation
programmes, partnership activities, curricula related aspects, as well as lifelong learning programmes
since 1992 till present since 2008 till present
since 2012
o Member in the Faculty Council of the Faculty for Foreign Languages and
Literatures, University of Bucharest
o Member in the University Senate
o Vice-president of the Didactic Competitions Evaluation Committee within the
Senate of the University of Bucharest
o Member in the National Council for the Recognition of Degrees, Diplomas and
Certificates (CNATDCU)in the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports – Appeal Committee
5. Further
professional activities
1976-1980 Associate lecturer at People’s University in Bucharest - German courses for adults
- drafting of a 2-volume German course book for adults (collaboration), published by the Scientific and Encyclopaedic Publishing House (Ed. Ştiinţifică şi
Enciclopedică), Bucharest, 1982 (vol. I 534 p., vol. II 352 p., revised and updated edition by Ioan Lăzărescu, Miron Publishers, Bucharest, 1992)
1976-1983 Member in the authors’ team for drafting the Contrastive German-Romanian Dictionary of Verbal Valencies, published in 1983 by Julius Groos Publishers, Heidelberg, 456 p.
(research project between Bucharest University and the Institute for German Language in Mannheim/Germany)
1979-1982 German course – Romanian Television (weekly broadcast part of the programme
Teleşcoala)
1980-1982 Substitute teaching assistant – Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, German language seminars (German as a foreign language and technical terminology) 1983-1991 Methodologist for German:
inspections for the exams with a view to permanent teaching certification and didactic degrees
drafting of German curricula coordinated by the Ministry of Education. 1990-1991 Substitute teaching assistant – Institute for Building Technology, Bucharest,
German language seminars (German as a foreign language and technical terminology)
1992-2007 Member in the drafting working group of the new course books for German as a foreign language Deutsch mit Spaß
(partnership project between the Ministry of education and Goethe Institut in Munich/Germany)
co-author of high school course books for grades 9, 11 and 12 that are part of the compulsory curricula for Baccalaureate and admission exams in universities 1993-1999 Member in the editorial group of the Journal of the Romanian German Teachers
Association Deutsch aktuell
2000-2008 Associate lecturer at "Transilvania" University in Braşov, Foreign Languages Department – German language
since 1990 till present Methodological and scientific supervisor for theses required for the first didactic degree in pre-university education
since 1999 till present - Project manager and researcher in several European Leonardo-da-Vinci,
Grundtvig and LLP (Lifelong Learning Programme – KA2) projects aiming at the didactics of foreign languages and bilingualism
- Researcher in several research projects in the field of diachronic and variation linguistics, contrastive linguistics and applied linguistics
since 1990 till present Participations in numerous international congresses, symposia, scientific communications and workshops in:
Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the USA, the UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Finland, Denmark, the Republic of Moldavia, Italy, France, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Turkey
since 2000 till present Member in various doctoral commissions (exams, project presentations, public defences of thesis) at the University of Bucharest, the University of Craiova, the University of Timişoara, the University of Sibiu and at the University of Riga/Latvia Nov. 1999
Oct. 2009 Oct. 2011 since 2009
short-time visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin / Germany. Lectures on German and Romanian lexicology
short-time visiting professor at the University of Bergamo / Italy. Lectures on variation and contact linguistics
short-time visiting professor at the University of Torino / Italy. Lectures on German variation linguistics and contact linguistics doctorate supervisor in PHILOLOGY / linguistics at the Doctoral School “Languages and Cultural Identities”
6. Personal skills and
abilities
Mother tongue Romanian Knowledge of languages
Self-evaluation Comprehension Speaking Writing
European standard (Common European Framework for Languages)
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Written production
German C2 proficiency C2 proficiency C2 proficiency C2 proficiency C2 proficiency
English C1 operational effective proficiency C2 proficiency C1 effective operational proficiency C1 effective operational proficiency C1 effective operational proficiency
Social skills and abilities - ability to work in working and research groups (developed during the collaboration in various work teams and research projects)
- rapid adaptability to multiethnic and multicultural environments (developed by attending a high school with German as teaching language with pupils of various ethnic groups, by collaborating in various international European projects, by participating in conferences and lectures in many European states and in the USA)
- ability to communicate with persons with different professions, of both genders and of various ages (developed as a teacher in various education levels)
Organisational skills and
abilities - organisational abilities (developed as project coordinator or member in research groups, as a member in the Faculty Council and the University Senate, as a member of the German Philology Department, by drafting documents such as teaching task allocations and workload quotas, syllabi, accreditation documentation, by organising the Centre of Excellence „Paul Celan” etc.)
- evaluation and testing abilities (developed during various examination sessions, as a member of the testing committee of the Foreign Language Centre of the University of Bucharest, evaluator of Goethe Institut, certified by Weiterbildungs-Test-Systeme and International Certificate Conference in Frankfurt/M., Germany, as specialised evaluator with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission in Brusselsfor university cooperation programmes, partnership activities, curricula related aspects, as well as lifelong learning
programmes
Computer skills PC – Microsoft Word, Power Point, Internet For scientific publications and past or current research projects please refer to the Annex
