About Me

Elena Stoyanova Lyubenova (Елена Стоянова Любенова) 

Profession: Teacher of Languages and Literatures,
                    Teacher of Mathematics,
                     Lecturer
                    Translator/Interpreter,
                     Writer

Native Language: Bulgarian

1. 'Graduate Diploma in Mathematics Education' – (four modules: 1. Mathematical thinking in schools; 2. Algebra; 3. Statistics; 4. Geometry.), (Teacher in mathematics at all levels.), Open University, UK.  01/10/2015 – 30/09/2016.

2.  Ph.D.  in Slavic Languages/Linguistics from University of Plovdiv "Paissii Hilendarsky", (1996 - 1999), 2000, Bulgaria.

3. Bachelor and Master degree of Slavic Philology (Czech Language and Literature,  Bulgarian Language and Literature, Polish, Slovak, French) from University of Plovdiv "Paissii Hilendarsky", (1991 - 1996), Bulgaria. Main languages studied - Czech, Polish, Slovak. Additional language studied -  French.

4. Bachelor and Master degree of Russian Philology (Russian Language and Literature) from University of Plovdiv "Paissii Hilendarsky", (1987 - 1992) Bulgaria. Main language studied - Russian. Additional language studied -  French.


5. Teaching qualification - Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) since 1992.

 6.  Lecturer.  11 years experience working in University of Plovdiv "Paissii Hilendarsky" teaching practical Slavic Languages and lecturing theoretical courses about Slavic languages  to students, age group: 18-50, full-time and part-time study in,  Department of “Slavic Languages and Literatures”. And designing  theoretical courses for full-time and part-time study: “Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages”, “Historical Grammar of Czech Language”,  “Modern Czech Language”, “Short Course of Upper Sorbian Language”.

7.  Knowledge of languages in different levels:
- Bulgarian, English, Russian, Czech, Polish,  French, Slovak, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Upper Sorbian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian.

8.  Ten published books (2001, 2003, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024). 

9. Research Interests: Languages, Mathematics, Teaching of languages and mathematics, Semantics,  Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Pedagogy, Technology of creative writing

10. Many more certificates from different courses, here are some of them:

“Innovation for Business Results” (the course is about how to generate new successful ideas and innovations in every kind of organization, and how to create an innovation plan). Open University PO Box 197, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BJ, United Kingdom. Certificate, 04/12/2009.

“Mentoring at Work” (the course is about mentoring at work)

Open University PO Box 197, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BJ, United Kingdom.

Certificate, 24/11/2009.

“Managing Performance through people” (The course is about supervising and staff training and development) Open University PO Box 197, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BJ, United Kingdom. Certificate, 23/11/2009.

“Introduction in Project Management”

Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 12/12/2008

“Change Management” Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 12/12/2008

“Introduction in Microsoft Project”

Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 12/12/2008

“Customer Care” -

Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 30/06/2008.

“Market Research and Sales” -

Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 31/03/2008.

“Supplier Management” -

Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 30/06/2007.

“Marketing Fundamentals” -

Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB,

Telephone number: 024 7765 7688, Certificate, 31/03/2007.

‘IT Skills – New CLAIT Microsoft Office’: (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Publisher, Outlook) – Henley College, Henley Road, Bell Green, Coventry, CV2 1ED, Coventry, UK, Certificate, 25/10/2007.