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Vanaga Austra

Date of Birth: 1926.05.09.

Address: Daugavpils, 5-30 Kr. Valdemāra iela

Marital status: Single

Education: higher Latvian State Pedagogigal Institue,

Faculty of Foreign Languages

Qualifications: Teacher of German in Secondary and Higher Schools

Work experience:

1997 – up to present DU university, docent

1957 – 1996 DPI, Faculty of Foreign Languages and

Faculty of German, lecturer

Position: docent of DU Faculty of German

Refresher courses:

1984 – Summer courses at Humboldt University in Berlin

1974 – 2-month courses in German for teachers of higher schools in

Erfurt

1972 – Qualification courses in Moscow

State Institute of Foreign Languages after Moriz Torez

1960 – 1-year courses for higher school teachers at Moscow

State Institute of Foreign Languages after Moriz Torez

Publications – Text books:

Kleine Botanik, 1966

Communicative grammar

Comparative grammar

History of Germany

German history of culture

Vanaga Ingrida

	born May 2, 1963 Identity no. 020563 - 12118 Address: Daugavpils, Saules 67-1, LV - 5400 Latvian, married, tel. [phone]
Education and academic degrees	1999 – completed doctoral studies theoretical course at Daugavpils Pedagogical University 1997 DPU doctoral study programme in Educational science 1997 MA in education, Daugavpils Pedagogical University 1981-1986 Daugavpils Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of philology, teacher of Latvian language and literature and Russian language and literature 1981 Daugavpils secondary school no. 1
Academic and other titles	MA
Experience	2001 lecturer at the dept.of Latvian language, Daugavpils University 1997 head of the dept.of Latvian language, Daugavpils Pedagogical University 1993-1997 assistant at the dept.of Latvian language 1990-1993 assistant at the dept.of Latvian philology and culture 1987-1990 teacher at Liksna primary school, Daugavpils region
Research publication	Articles in research journals and other collections – 4 Conference abstracts - 2 Other research publications - 1
Published teaching literature	Teaching aids - 1(co-author) Mūsdienu metodikas rokasgrāmata skolotājiem. – SIA “N.I.M.S.”, 2001. Academic course programmes - 5 Other publications – 1
Major publications	1) Otrā valoda: teorija un prakse. DPU 6. ikgadējās zinātniskās konferences rakstu krājums A6, 2. daļa. DPU izd. “Saule”, 1998. - 263.-264. pp. 2) Daiļdarba uztveres līmeņi. Valoda –2000. HF X Zinātniskie lasījumi. - 90.- 93.pp. 3) Что значит читать и понимать текст? Paradigmatika, sintagmatika ir kalbos funkcijos. Kaunas.- 2000.- 297.- 268.pp. 4) Дидактические принципы речевой деятельности.(referāts nolasīts starptautiskajā zinātniskajā konferencē “Человек в пространстве языка” Kauņā 2003. gada 8. maijā un iesniegts publicēšanai) 5) Teksta loma bilingvālā stundā (referāts nolasīts starptautiskajā zinātniskajā konferencē “Valodu apguve: teorija un prakse” 2002. gada 8. novembrī Liepājā un iesniegts publicēšanai). 6) Didaktikas principi mūsdienīgā mācību procesā.–CHANGING EDUCATION IN A CHANGING SOCIETY.
Academic courses	Comparative course of Latvian and Russian, Latvian language (lexicology and phraseology, phonetics), practical Latvian
Activities in professional and other organizations	1996-1999 UNO Development programme LAT 2 multiplicator courses 1996-1999 participation in LVAVP activities 1997 participation in Soros foundation and ministry of Education and research project “Studies for efficient planning and organizing courses of further education” 2000 participation in Soros foundation – Latvia project “Improvement of the professional competence of teachers of pedagogical higher educational institutions” 2000-2003 participation in LVAVP project "Bilingual teaching methods" 2003 defense of a research project at LVAVP “Considerable didactic requirements in learning process”and Multiplicator certificate (No.91)
Honors	Latvian Education foundation programme “SWH for education, research and culture” scholarship (1997) (certificate S-M No. 0429) Daugavpils University honorary award for contribution to the improvement of study programs, November 26, 2001
Skills	Latvian and Russian - fluent, German - elementary, text editing Driving license
Interests