Tsvetanka Chernogorova
Senior Assistant Professor
The University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Department of English and American Studies
Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology
E-mail: tsveti_chernogorova [at] abv.bg
Research interests: experimental phonetics, socio-phonetics, the teaching of English pronunciation, English pronunciation models and accents, L1 transfer, L2 phonological acquisition and perception, speech corpora.
Subjects taught:
BA Courses:
- Practical Phonetics
- National Varieties of English
- Business English
Major publications:
- With Dimitrova S. The Place of English Pronunciation in the Academic Curriculum. In Language, Culture, Identity. Veliko Turnovo: Faber, 2010. ISBN: 978-954-400-282-4
- With Dimitrova, S. English Pronunciation Models and Tertiary-Level Students: A Bulgarian Perspective. In ‘Exploring English Phonetics’ Ed. B.Cubrovic and T. Paunovic, 207-224. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4438-3515-2
- Acquiring L2 Vowels: The Production of High English Vowels /i:, i, u:, u/ by Bulgarian Native Speakers. In ‘Focus on English Phonetics’. Ed. B.Cubrovic and T. Paunovic, 13-27. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. ISBN:978-1-4438-4925-8
- Learning English Pronunciation: Bulgarian Tertiary-level Learners’ Attitudes and Motivation. In Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, UCL, London, 8–10 August 2013. Ed. Joanna Przedlacka, John Maidment and Michael Ashby. ISBN (eBook-PDF) 978-0-9926394-0-2; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/ptlc/proceedings_2013
Awards: Erasmus Life Long Learning Programme – Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany