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1 Sofia PROKOU / sprokou@turkmas.uoa.gr / sprokou@hotmail.com Kaplanon Αthens Fratti Athens (private) Activities Member of the Specialized Teaching and Research Staff (E.E.D.I.P. / E.E.P), National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies. Conference Interpreter, member of AIIC, Greek, Turkish, French, English Education 2008 present: Ph.D. Student in Linguistics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Faculty of Philology, Department of Linguistics Thesis title: The Word Order in Turkish, seen as a Second Language: Problems of Acquisition and Teaching to Greek native speakers Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Institute of Studies of Developing Countries (Institut d Etudes des Pays en Développement) Thesis Title: Current Political Developments in Asia and the Middle East: - Turkey in Search of a New Role in the Near and Middle East. The Islamic Card in Turkish Politics. - China: Positive and Negative Aspects of the Agricultural Reform of Sino-Japanese Relations: Political, economic and strategic aspects of the Sino-Japanese rapprochement from the viewpoint of the Peace and Friendship Treaty M.A. Masters Degree in Development Studies awarded with Distinction in 1988

2 July/August 1984 March December 1985 United Nations, Geneva, Studies Program Youth and the United Nations Paper produced: The United Nations and the Developing World Training Program EEC COMMISSION, Brussels. Human Rights Office of the Secretary General of the Commission. Under the direction of Mrs. D. Napoli. Papers produced: - The Human Rights Situation in Turkey. (Briefing notes for the Secretary General of the European Commission, on the occasion of the visit of his counterpart of Amnesty International) - Rights of Conscientious Objectors in the EEC member countries. - Missing Persons in Cyprus after 1974 Paper prepared for the Human Rights Division of the European Parliament Four months training period as Conference Interpreter at the EC Service for Conference Interpreters - SCIC (Service Communautaire d Interprètes de Conférence - SCIC), under the direction of Mr. K. Markessis, European Community Commission, Brussels Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (Université Catholique de Louvain), School of Philosophy (Institut Supérieur de Philosophie Faculté des Sciences Philosophiques) Licence of Philosophy ( Licence en Philosophie ): awarded with Distinction. Title of thesis : Aspects of Ancient Greek Tragedy based on the work of Nietzche Bosphorus University (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, ex- Robert College), Department of Social Sciences, Istanbul, 3-year studies certificate Research Interests Applied Linguistics, teaching Turkish as a foreign language: teaching the word order for developing the four language acquisition skills. Grammatical description of Turkish Comparative linguistics Interpretation: Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpretation, specializing on Turkish-Greek, Greek-Turkish combination. Teaching consecutive and simultaneous interpretation. Problems arising in simultaneous interpretation due to the special word order of the two languages.

3 Positions Held January 1987 August 1988: Greek Prime Minister s Press Office, Athens, Greece. Employed as Analyst of Turkish Press. September January 1997: Head of the private office of Ms. M. Koromila, historian, President of Panorama Cultural Association, Athens Teaching Experience September 2009 present: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Modern Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Athens Turkish Language: Morphology and Syntax, 3 rd grade students, 5 th and 6 th semesters (intermediate and advanced level) Turkish Language: Developing Writing Skills, Vocabulary, 3 rd grade students, 5 th and 6 th semesters (intermediate and advanced level) Turkish Language: Developing Speaking Skills, 3 rd grade students, 5 th and 6 th semesters (intermediate and advanced level) October 2003 September 2007: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Modern Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Athens Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, beginners and intermediate level October 1999 September 2009: Aegean University, Department of Mediterranean Studies, Teaching Modern Turkish from beginners to intermediate level October 1988 September 1992: Army Language School Athens Greece, Teaching Turkish Language, Special Vocabulary, etc Selected Publications Teaching manuals Teaching Turkish at Greek Secondary Education Level Μavropoulou M., Prokou S. (2008) Temel Türkçe IΙΙ, Temel Türkçe IΙ, (2007), Temel Türkçe Ι, (2007), Ministry of Education, Paedagogical Institute Publications, Athens (Turkish as a Second Language, beginners level) Prokou S., Μavropoulou M. (2008) Türkçe IΙΙ, Türkçe IΙ, Türkçe Ι, Ministry of Education, Paedagogical Institute Publications, Athens (Language manual for Turkish native speakers) Teaching Turkish at Greek Primary Education Level Book published under the pseudo name Falieri Μ. ( Prokou S.), (1993) İlkokul Türkçe Ders Kitabı 4, 4th YearPprimary School Language Book for native speakers, Athens, Greece

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5 Publications in journals Papadopoulou, D., Varlokosta, S., Spyropoulos, V., Kaili, H., Prokou, S. & Revithiadou, A. 2011a. Case morphology and word order in L2 Turkish: Evidence from Greek learners. Second Language Research 27 (2), Papers in edited volumes and conference proceedings Papadopoulou, D., S. Varlokosta, V. Spyropoulos, H. Kaili, S. Prokou & A. Revithiadou. 2011b. The acquisition of verbal and nominal suffixes by Greek learners of Turkish. Στο Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of Greek Linguistics, Koutsogiannis, D., D. Papadopoulou & A. Revithiadou (eds.), σελ Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Triantafyllidis Foundation, Thessaloniki. Prokou, S., Kaili, H., Karantzola, E. & M. Soukalopoulou Presentation of website In Ν. E. Uzun, M. E. Gökmen, & C. Kurt (eds.) New studies in teaching of Turkish as a foreign language: Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Teaching of Turkish in the world], pp Αnkara: Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi. [In Turkish]. Revithiadou, A., Kaili, H., Prokou, S. & M. A. Tiliopoulou Turkish accentuation revisited: Α compositional approach to Turkish stress. Στο S. Yağcıoğlu & A. C. Değer (επιμ.) Advances in Turkish Linguistics: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, σελ Izmir: Dokuz Eylül Yayınları. Work in progress Kaili, H., Prokou, S. & Α. Çeltek. (To appear) Grammar in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language in Tertiary Education in Greece. In Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Foreign Language Teaching in Tertiary Education (9-11 October 2009, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus). [In Greek]. Monograph (unpublished) Varlokosta, S., Revithiadou, Α., Spyropoulos, V., Papadopoulou, D., Kaili, H., Prokou, S. & Κ. Nikolou Grammatical Description of Turkish. Delivered task of the research program PYTHAGORAS 1: Operational Program for Reinforcement of Research Groups at Universities. Research title: A comparative study of Greek-Turkish: Grammatical analysis and acquisition of Turkish as a foreign language. [In Greek] Dictionaries F. Tuncay, L. Karatzas, (2000), TÜRKÇE YUNANCA SÖZLÜK (Turkish Greek Dictionary) Institute for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Athens, Greece. Contribution :Final control Group of translators: Alektoridou T. et.al., (1994), ΕΛΛΗΝΟΤΟΥΡΚΙΚΟ ΛΕΞΙΚΟ (Greek Turkish Dictionary) Athens, Rodamos publ. Contribution: Translation of letter m section.

6 Other Interpretation January 2013 September 1999 present September 2005 June 2007 AIIC member Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting; Works as interpreter for: International congresses on scientific, political, cultural, economic and other matters. Official meetings of bilateral interest for Greece and Turkey of State Leaders, PMs, Government Ministers, Cooperation Committees, and other. Special Scientist, Cyprus University, Department of English Language and Literature, Postgraduate Program for Interpretation, Academic Coordinator, Assistant Professor Dr G. Floros GREEK STATE LANGUAGE CERTIFICATION October 2009 present: Scientific partner, coordinator, author of testing material and active participation in Training Programs for examiners of Turkish, examiner of oral speech of Turkish for the graded level B1&B2.