Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Applied Linguistics and Technology, Iowa State University (in progress)

M.A., Philology, Moldova State University (2003)

B.A., English Language and Literature/ Translation and Interpreting, Moldova State University (1995)

Awards, Certification, Fellowship

Teaching Excellence Award, Iowa State University (2007)

Grannis Award, Iowa State University (2004)

Peace Corps Language Tester Certificate, Peace Corps, Washington, D.C., USA (2002)

Junior Faculty Development Program, US Department of State, American Councils for International Education, ACTR/ACCELS, USA (2001-2002)

Professional Experience

Instructor, English Department, ISU (08/04 - present)

Staff Coordinator/ Research assistant, Life in a Second Language Simulation Project, ISU and Iowa Department of Education (08/06 - 08/07)

Assistant coordinator, Enhancing and Advancing Science for English Learners Project, ISU and Iowa Department of Education (06/05 - 08/05)

Senior lecturer, Institute of Continuing Education, MSU (09/02 - 07/04)

Language tester, Peace Corps, Moldova (02/03 - 04/04)

Intern, Summer Bridge Course Intensive English Orientation Program, ISU (05/02 - 07/02)

Translator/Interpreter, United Nations Development Program, Moldova (05/99 - 07/99)

Lecturer, Speech Practice Section Chair, Department of Germanic Philology and Translation, University of Foreign Languages and International Business, Moldova (08/97 - 08/01)

Teacher of English/ cultural facilitator, "Star Camp" International English Speaking Summer Camp English Language Program, Sozopol, Bulgaria (6/98 - 8/98)

Teacher of English, STUDIUM Language Study Center, Moldova (9/94 - 8/97)

Presentations

Pendar, N. & Cotos E. (2008). Automatic identification of discourse moves in scientific article introductions. Paper presented at The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of the ACL, Columbus, Ohio.

Cotos, E. (2008). Integrating learner corpora into academic writing pedagogy. Paper presented at AAAL 2008, Washington DC.

Cotos, E. (2008). Designing and evaluating CALL materials: Incidental vocabulary acquisition through annotations. Paper presented at CALICO with IALLT 25 Annual conference, San Francisco, California.

Cotos, E., and Pendar, N. (2007). Automated diagnostic writing tests: Why? How? Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning, Ames, IA.

Cotos, E. (2007). The language learning potential of reading comprehension CALL tasks: Frameworks for design. Application presented at Developer's Showcase, CALL-IS Electronic Village, 41st Annual TESOL Convention Seattle.

Cotos, E. (2007). Annotation modes in a reading comprehension CALL unit. Project presented at EV Fairs, CALL-IS Electronic Village, 41st Annual TESOL Convention Seattle.

Cotos, E. (2007). Integrating learner corpus-based data-driven pedagogy in academic writing classrooms. Paper presented at Applied Linguistics Colloquium Series, ISU.

Compton, L., Grgurovic, M., O’Bryan, A., Cotos, E. & Bekrieva-Grannis, D. (2006). Review of conferencing applications and their potential use for language learning. Paper presented at CALICO Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Compton, L., O’Bryan, A., Grgurovic, M., Cotos, E., & Bekrieva-Grannis, D. (2006). Reviewing CMC applications for usability, usefulness, and language learning potential. Poster presented at CALICO Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Compton, L., Grgurovic, M., O’Bryan, A., & Cotos, E. (2006). Review of conferencing applications and their potential use for language learning. CALL Club, ISU.

Cotos, E. (2006). A pilot study of annotation modes and incidental vocabulary acquisition. Paper presented at the Show and Tell event, TESL/Applied Linguistics: Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning, ISU.

Cotos, E. (2004). The importance of diachronic studies in the excellence of the university curriculum. Paper presented at Language Development and Teaching Conference, Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages, Balti, Moldova.

Cotos, E. (2004). Speaking to persuade. Seminar at Pedagogical University “I. Creanga”, Chisinau, Moldova.

Cotos, E. (2003). English phrases, clauses, and sentences from a diachronic perspective. Seminar at Institute of Continuing Education, MSU, Chisinau, Moldova.

Cotos, E. (2003). Teaching written translation. Seminar at Pedagogical University “A. Russo”, Balti, Moldova.

 

Publications

Pendar, N. & Cotos E. (2008). Automatic identification of discourse moves in scientific article introductions. In The Proceedings of The 3rd workshop on innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. pp. 62-70. Columbus, Ohio.

Cotos, E. & Pendar, N. (2008). Automated diagnostic writing tests: Why? How? In C. A. Chapelle, Y.-R. Chung, & J. Xu (Eds.), Towards adaptive CALL: Natural language processing for diagnostic language assessment, pp. 65-81. Ames, IA: Iowa State University.

Cotos, E. (2003). English language diachronic studies and their importance in the excellence of the university curriculum. Anale Stiintifice. Universitatea de Stat din Moldova.

Cotos, E. (2002). Understanding ourselves as learners. Anale Stiintifice. Universitatea de Stat din Moldova.

Cotos, E. (1998). Listening comprehension as an aspect of verbal activity. Polyglot. Chisinau. Moldova.

 

Professional Membership

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Computer Assisted Language Learning Club (CALL Club), ISU

Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) Alumni Association