Kateřina Strnadová (Štroblová)

Biography

Katerina Strnadova is the vice-director for strategy and development at the Institute of Applied Language Studies of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. She holds a PhD in the Theory and History of Science and Technology (University of West Bohemia, 2011) and an MA in Italian Philology (Charles University, 2003).
Since 2003, she has been working at the University of West Bohemia as a coordinator and teacher of Italian courses as well as the coordinator of the International Summer Language School and of the Students’ Professional Conference in Foreign Languages. As vice-director, she also organizes conferences, workshops and training specialized in language teaching and learning methods. She is also employed as a teacher of Italian at the Pilsen Conservatory.
She is the author of various e-learning courses (Italian language I, II, Italian for Erasmus students), digital teaching materials (Italian language lessons for secondary schools, Scaffolded Language Emergence) and a database for an Italian-Czech thematic dictionary.
Since 2018, she has been intensively studying Biodanza, which she has been spreading in the Czech Republic as an assistant at the Biodanza School Czech Republic and a lecturer under supervision in the Pilsen region. She is currently preparing a monograph on Language in Biodanza.
Her research interests include language teaching and learning, translation in language teaching and learning, tools and methods in language teaching and learning, music in language teaching and learning, translation of lyrical texts, language in Biodanza and (non)verbal language in well-being.