Inga Kaija

Work experience

2014 - Present	Acting Lecturer Language Centre, Riga Stradins University
2012 - Present	Teacher of Lithuanian language Language school "Skrivanek Baltic"
2010 - 2016	Freelance translator Various customers Various projects; Lithuanian-Latvian translation
2013 - 2015	Translator National News Agency "LETA" Working languages: Latvian, Lithuanian, English
2010 - 2012	Translator UAB "Kosmelita" Lithuanian-Latvian translation

Education and training

2013 - 2016	Doctoral study program "Linguistics" Liepaja University, Ventspils University College
2010 - 2012	Master's degree in Applied Lithuanian Linguistics Vytautas Magnus University
2011 - 2012	Linguistics studies as part of the Socrates/Erasmus student exchange program Masaryk University
2007 - 2010	Bachelor's degree in Baltic Philology University of Latvia

Achievements

Continuing education a.o. qualification upgrade

16.06.2016. Seminar "Portfolio of Europass documents". Riga Stradins University, Centre of Educational Growth. Riga, Latvia. Certificate. 2 academic hours.

30.03.–27.04.2016. Seminar cycle "Teaching in an intercultural environment". Riga Stradins University, Centre of Educational Growth. Riga, Latvia. Certificate.15 academic hours.

27.07.2014.–03.08.2014. Eleventh Salos Linguistics Summer School Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Undecima. Vilnius University. Salos, Lithuania. Certificate.

15.07.2014.–18.07.2014. UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics 2014. Lancaster University. Lancaster, United Kingdom. Certificate.

21.01.2014.–23.01.2014. Liepaja University Doctoral Students' Winter School 2014. Liepaja University. Liepaja, Latvia. Certificate.

28.07.–04.08.2013. Tenth Salos Linguistics Summer School Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Decima. Vilnius University. Salos, Lithuania. Certificate.

01.05.2013.–31.07.2013. Internship in computer linguistics. Vytautas Magnus University, Centre of Computational Linguistics. Kaunas, Lithuania. Certificate. 10 credit points.

04.12.2012. Informative-educational seminar "Skills of public speech". Latvian Association of Interpreters and Translators. Riga, Latvia. Certificate.

Field of research

Teaching and learning Second Baltic language;
Building learner corpora;
Using learner corpora in linguo-didactic research;
Teaching and learning Latvian and/or Lithuanian as foreign language.

Lectured study course

Latvian Language

Latvian Language in Medicine

Linguistics

Medicine Terminology in Latvian (for Latvian students)

Memberships

2015-ongoing: Member of Learner Corpus Association

2011-ongoing: Member of Association "Forum of Lithuania and Latvia"

2010–2012: Mamber of the Student Club "The Balts", Vytautas Magnus University

Publications

Research articles

Znotiņa, Inga. Learner corpus annotation in Latvia and Lithuania / I.Znotina // Sustainable Multilingualism = Darnioji daugiakalbystė. - No.7 (2015), p.145-159. - Kopsav. lietuviešu val.

Znotiņa, Inga. Pētniecības iespējas neanotētā baltu valodu apguvēju korpusā / I.Znotiņa // Vārds un tā pētīšanas aspekti : rakstu krājums / Liepājas Universitāte. Humanitāro un mākslas zinātņu fakultāte. - Liepāja, 2015. - 19.sēj., 2.d.: Valoda un vide. Terminoloģija. Tulkošanas jautājumi, 208.-221.lpp. - Kopsav. angļu val.

Abstracts

Znotiņa, Dace. Corpus-based approach for analysis of the structure of static visual narratives / D.Znotiņa, I.Znotiņa // 8th International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL2015 (Lancaster, UK, July 21-24, 2015) : Abstract Book / Lancaster University. - Lancaster, 2015. - P.446-447.

Znotiņa, Inga. Besimokančiųjų tekstynų anotavimas Lietuvoje ir Latvijoje [Elektroniskais resurss] / I.Znotiņa // Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija „Darnioji daugiakalbystė: kalba, kultūra, visuomenė“ : priimtos santraukos = International Scientific Conference "Sustainable multilingualism: language, culture and society" (Kaunas, Lithuania, May 29-30, 2015) : accepted abstracts [Elektroniskais resurss]. - Kaunas, 2015. - 1 p. - Resurss aprakstīts 2016.g. 21.martā. - Pieejas veids: Tīmeklis WWW.URL: http://daugiakalbyste.vdu.lt/wp-content/uploads/docs/03/abs…

Znotiņa, Inga. Error-tagging a learner corpus of Baltic languages [Elektroniskais resurss] / I.Znotina // ShefLingPGC 2015 : 2nd Sheffield Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics (Sheffield, UK, March 5-6, 2015) : [Book of Abstracts] [Elektroniskais resurss]. - Sheffield, 2015. - 1 p. - Resurss aprakstīts 2016.g. 22.martā. - Pieejas veids: Tīmeklis WWW.URL: http://goo.gl/wsCgsv

Znotiņa, Inga. Kļūdu klasifikācija otrās baltu valodas apguvēju tekstos [Elektroniskais resurss] / I.Znotiņa // XII Tarptautinis baltistų kongresas : pranešimų tezės = XII Starptautiskais baltistu kongress : referātu tēzes =12th International Congress of Balticists (Vilnius, Lithuania, Oct.28-31, 2015) : Abstracts [Elektroniskais resurss]. - Vilnius, 2015. - 280.lpp. - Resurss aprakstīts 2016.g. 22.martā. - Pieejas veids: Tīmeklis WWW.URL: http://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/failai/XII_Tarptauti…

Znotiņa, Inga. Learner corpus Esam : a new corpus for researching Baltic interlanguage / I.Znotiņa // 8th International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL2015 (Lancaster, UK, July 21-24, 2015) : Abstract Book / Lancaster University. - Lancaster, 2015. - P.447-448.

Znotiņa, Inga. Lemmatization in a beginner learner corpus [Elektroniskais resurss] / I.Znotina // Third Baltic Student Conference "Bridges in the Baltics" (Vilnius, Lithuania, Oct.2-3, 2015) : Abstracts [Elektroniskais resurss]. - Vilnius, 2015. - 1 p. - Resurss aprakstīts 2016.g. 21.martā. - Pieejas veids: Tīmeklis WWW.URL: http://www.maailmakeeled.ut.ee/sites/default/files/maailmak…

Znotiņa, Inga. Semantiski tuvu leksēmu apguves izpēte neanotētā valodas apguvēju korpusā / I.Znotiņa // 2015.gada Zinātniskās konferences tēzes (Rīga, 2015.g. 26.-27.martā) / Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. - Rīga, 2015. - 428.lpp.