Short description:

• Mariana Coancă is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Foreign Languages. She holds a Ph.D. in Philology from the University of Bucharest and contributes to RAU’s commitment to student learning through teaching Business English courses focusing on professional communication and soft skills enhancement.  Her responsibilities are:
  • Preparing for language instruction, collecting and adapting teaching materials to meet students’ needs for employability, correcting homework, assessing student performance, and counseling students;
  • Teaching maintenance and enhancement English courses with the primary goal of improving students’ linguistic competence;
  • Developing new materials and adapting existing materials.
• As for the research outputs, Mariana has published over 30 articles in disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, 20 conference proceedings and 6 books/book chapters on terminology, language for specific purposes and foreign languages pedagogy.

Member of professional associations/organizations:

• RSEAS (The Romanian Society for English and American Studies)
• ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English)
• SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea)
• AHE (Association for Heritage and Education)

Fields of interest/research:

• Applied linguistics, terminology, professional communication, bilingual education, digital & creative pedagogy

Hobbies:

• Art history, traveling, ancient history, reading, vintage fashion