Sofia PROKOU

+30 210 3634592 / +30 6944 96 97 32

sprokou@turkmas.uoa.gr / sprokou@hotmail.com

Kaplanon 6 - 106 80 ΑthensFratti 15 - 117 42 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 Universityof 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

1984 – 1987 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 1976- ‘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

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.

1985 – 1986 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.

1978 – 1983 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.

1974 – 1977 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.

Positions Held

January 1987 – August 1988: Greek Prime Minister’s Press Office, Athens, Greece. Employedas Analyst of Turkish Press.

September 1994 - 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 ofPhilosophy, Department of Modern Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Athens• Turkish Language: Morphology and Syntax, 3rd grade students, 5th and 6th semesters

(intermediate and advanced level) • Turkish Language: Developing Writing Skills, Vocabulary, 3rd grade students, 5th and 6th

semesters (intermediate and advanced level) • Turkish Language: Developing Speaking Skills, 3rd grade students, 5th and 6th semesters

(intermediate and advanced level)

October 2003 – September 2007: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School ofPhilosophy, Department of Modern Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, AthensTeaching 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 TurkishLanguage, 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

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), 173-205.

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. 377-392. Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Triantafyllidis Foundation, Thessaloniki.

Prokou, S., Kaili, H., Karantzola, E. & M. Soukalopoulou. 2010. Presentation of website www.kedieg.gr. 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. 127-133. Αnkara: Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi. [In Turkish].

Revithiadou, A., Kaili, H., Prokou, S. & M.–A. Tiliopoulou. 2006. 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 37-50. 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. 2008. 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 (GreekTurkish Dictionary) Athens, Rodamos publ.

Contribution: Translation of letter m section.

Other

Interpretation January 2013 AIIC member September 1999 – present Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting; Works as interpreter for:

§ International congresses on scientific, political, cultural, economicand other matters. § Official meetings of bilateral interest for Greece and Turkey ofState Leaders, PMs, Government Ministers, CooperationCommittees, and other.

September 2005 – June 2007

Special Scientist, Cyprus University, Department of EnglishLanguage 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 andactive participation in Training Programs for examiners of Turkish, examiner of oral speech of Turkish for the graded level B1&B2.