Mirela Alhasani

Affiliation

  • Epoka University, Albania

Special Award

  • Certificate of Appreciation by RECTOR of EPOKA University As Trainer of English Teaching Methodology to EPOKA Academic staff – 11.03.2021
  • Certificate of Appreciation by RECTOR of EPOKA University As Speaker in the workshop ‘Peace in the Balkans, Peace in Europe” Center of European Studies – 10.05.2018
  • Certificate of Appreciation by RECTOR of EPOKA University As Speaker in “Teaching Training for Academic Staff” by Academic Evaluation And Permanent Quality Board – 6.03.2017

H Index

  • Google Scholar: 2

Publications

Dr. Mirela Alhasani (Dubali)

Epoka University, Albania

SCOPE Number:

22123404-6649-0182

Biography

  • Dr., Classic and Modern Philology in EAP/ESP, St.Kliment Ohridski University -, Bulgaria, Sofia, 2019
  • M.Sc., IR and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary, Budapest, 2004
  • P.M., Department of English Language, Aleksander Xhuvani University, Albania, Elbasan, 2002
  • B.Sc., Department of English Language, Aleksander Xhuvani University, Albania, Elbasan, 2002

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali) & Nadezda Stojkovic, “Post Brexit Dynamics in EU: A Political Body Nurtured and Retained alive by the ESP Capillaries in Education”, in Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 9  No .3, 2021, pp 429-437
    Indexed in WEB OFSCIENCE- Clarivate Analytics/Scopus http://espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/espeap
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali), “A Study on Albanian Students’ Perceptions of the ESP Courses Contribution to their Engineering /Architecture Knowledge Acquisition and Communication Competence”, in Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, Vol. 9, No 1, 2021, pp. 109−117 UDC: 811.111:378.147(477) https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP2101109A
    Indexed in WEB OF SCIENCE- Clarivate Analytics/Scopus http://espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/espeap
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali) & Nadezda Stojkovic, “ Searching the Golden Average between ESP and CLIL”, in Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, Vol. 5, N. 2, 2017, pp396-413
    Indexed in WEB OF SCIENCE- Clarivate Analytics/Scopus http://espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/espeap
  • Mirela Alhasani, “A Comparative Analysis of the Deep Content-based ESP Textbook to Balanced ESP: The Case of Business English”, in Journal of Teaching English for Academic and Specific Purposes, Vol. 5, N 2. 2017, pp 379-395
    Indexed in WEB OF SCIENCE -Clarivate Analytics/Scopus http://espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/espeap
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali), “An Issue of Pedagogical Concern: Why does it take so long to Albanian Students to Develop English Communicative Fluency? Procedia- Social and Behavioral Sciences, April 2016, vol 232, pp 514-519 ELSEVIER Indexed journal DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.071
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali), “The Urgent Educational Shift from General ELT to ESP: A Follow –up Reaction to Globalization Dynamics in Albania”, Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, Vol 4, No 2, Sept 2016, pp 327-336
    Indexed in WEB OF SCIENCE- Clarivate Analytics/Scopus http://espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs/index.php/espeap
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali), “To What Extend the Democratic Party of Albania is Conservative? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of this Political Party”, Journal of Social Science and Research, Vol 3, N2, 2016 pp 160-172 Published by Macrothink Institue, USA.
    http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jsss/article/download/8997/7563Doi: 10.5296/jsss.v3i2.8997 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsss.v3i2.8997
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali), “Educational Turning Point in Albania: no more mechanic parrots but Critical Thinkers”, Journal of Educational Issues, Vol1, No2, 2015, pp 117-128: Macrothink Institute, California, USA.
    Indexed in ERIC   https://eric.ed.gov/?q=thinker&ff1=dtySince_2009&ff2=subEducational+History
    doi:10.5296/jei. v1i2.8464 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jei.v1i2.8464<l/i>
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali), “The added value of ‘Instructional Simulation Practices’ in Teaching International Relations and European Studies”, Journal of Educational and Social Research, Vol 4. No.2 April 2014, ISSN 2239-978 X, Rome – Italy pp 340-350 doi: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2r
    https://studylib.net/doc/11952696/the-added-value-of-%E2%80%98instructional-simulation-practices%E2%80%99-i…
  • Mirela Alhasani (Dubali)(co-authored), “Empowering Civil Society in Albania: Opportunities for the Future”, in International Scientific Journal Diskutime, Vol 2. Nr 13. ISSN 1857- 825 X, August 2014. Tetovo, Macedonia. pp 27-39
  • Mirela Dubali Alhasani (Co-authored), “The Role of Socialization in Democratic Norms Cultivation: The Case of the OSCE in Albania”, in International Scientific Journal Diskutime, Vol 2. Nr 13. ISSN 1857- 825 X, August 2014. Tetovo, Macedonia, pp 34 -45

Book Chapters

  • Measuring graduate students’ perceptions of an Academic English Reading and Writing course during turbulent times – a case study from Albania, in et.al. James Fenton, Julio Gimenez, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Percy, Mariangela Spinillo . International Perspectives on Teaching Academic English in Higher Education in Times of Covid-19, Routledge (Taylor and Francis), USA           
    Book chapter link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003283409-13/measuring-graduate-students-perceptions-academic-english-reading-writing-course-turbulent-times-case-study-albania-mirela-alhasani-dubali
  • English in Higher Education: Proceedings of the international Seminar “ESP and CLIL Current Drivers of HEI Internationalization 11–12 March 2021, “Juhász Gyula Advanced Education Publishing” Szeged University Press, Hungary ( pp-123-140).
    ISBN 978-615-5946-37-0 (printed) ISBN 978-615-5946-38-7 (pdf)
  • Alhasani (Dubali), Mirela & Dimitar Vesselinov (2021). Contemporary Politics of Multilingualism and its Impact on Democratic Consolidation of an Enlarged European Union. In Dimitar Vesselinov, Linguadidactic Perspectives, pp 500-509.   “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia University Press, Bulgaria
    BOOK ISBN 978-954-07-4982-2   www.unipress.bg
  • Alhasani (Dubali), Mirela & Milena Yordanova (2020/2021). Measuring Achievement of the Formula ‘Mother tongue + two’- A Need to Improve Foreign Language Proficiency in Europe?  in Dimitar Vesselinov, Linguadidactic Perspectives, pp 559- 570,  “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia University Press Bulgaria
    BOOK ISBN 978-954-0704982-2      www.unipress.bg
  • Alhasani (Dubali), Mirela (2018). Discussing the Relevance of Problem and Project- based Learning to Higher Education Challenges in Albania. In Todor Shopov, Pedagogy of Providing Learning Opportunities for All ( Педагогика за осигуряване на възможности за обучение за всички) (pp. 214- 222). Sofia University Press, Bulgaria
    Book ISBN: 978-954-07-4566-4   Category- Philology Studies and Higher Education
    Book link: https://unipress.bg/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=516
  • Alhasani (Dubali), Mirela. (2018). Comparative analysis of the deep content-based ESP textbook to balanced ESP. In N. Stojkovic (Ed.1), Positioning English for Specific Purposes in an English Language Teaching Context  (pp. 230-241). Vernon Press, USA
    ISBN 978-1-62273-414-6
    Book link: https://vernonpress.com/book/466
  • Alhasani (Dubali), Mirela. & Nadezda Stojkovic (2018). Chapter 2: Searching for the golden average between CLIL and ESP. In N. Stojkovic and Nijole Burkšaitienė (Ed.1), Establishing Predominance of English for Specific Purposes within Adult English Language Teaching, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK
    Book ISBN-10: 1-5275- 1159-6; ISBN-13: 978-1- 5275- 1159- 0
    Book link  http://www.cambridgescholars.com/establishing-predominance-of-english-for-specific-purposes-within-adult-english-language-teaching

Books

Conferences & Symposiums

18-21 October 2022

7th ICLHE Conference “EMI, ICLHE and Englishization: Reflecting on the changing university”, held at Maastricht University, Netherlands
Presented “Implications of EMI to Albania’s higher education profile: thoughts for a bilingual alternative”

21-23.09.2022

ICES’22 EPOKA University, Tirana. Albania
Conference theme “Developments and Challenges in the European Integration Process: The Role of Identity and Intercultural Communication in a Transnational Perspective.”
Keynote address: The case of Bulgarian- North Macedonian linguistic dispute- national identity still matters

June 2022

The 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Ghent, Belgium
Anabela Barreiro , José G. C. de Souza , Albert Gatt , Mehul Bhatt , Elena Lloret , Aykut Erdem, Dimitra Gkatzia , Helena Moniz , Irene Russo , Fabio Kepler , Iacer Calixto , Marcin Paprzycki , Francois Portet , Isabelle Augenstein , Mirela Dubali (Alhasani) – Multi3Generation: Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Language Generation. In Macken, Rufener, Van den Bogaert, Daems, Tezcan, Vanroy, Fonteyne, Barrault, Costa-jussà, Kemp, Pilos, Declercq, Koponen, Forcada, Scarton, Moniz (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, p. 345–346 Ghent, Belgium, June 2022.

21. 10 2021

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Symposium “The Englishization of Higher Education; A phenomenon of glocalization?”

28.02.2021

International XII Conference St. Petersburg State University of Economics, Russia
Member of the Scientific Organizing committee
Best paper award of supervised student Master Program

10.05. 2018

International Conference on European Studies, Epoka University, Tirana    
Theme of Conference “Peace in the Balkans, Peace in Europe: Lessons Learned”
Paper Title: Contemporary politics of multilingualism and its role in democracy consolidation of an enlarged EU                          

10.11.2017

International Jubilee Conference Sofia University St.Kliment Ohridski , Bulgaria            
“Pedagogy of Providing Learning Opportunities for All”

9.10. 2017

Academic Evaluation and Quality Improvement Board, Epoka University, Tirana
Trainer in the workshop “Research Training for Academic Staff”
Public Lecture on Teaching Methodology at University Studies- Constructivism

11.05.2016

International Conference by State University of Tirana, Albania
Held by Faculty of Foreign Languages, English Department.
Paper Title: “Tailoring English Language Teaching in line with EU’s Vision of an inclusive economy – Case study – Business English Course”

16.04.2016

International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language, GlobELT
Paper Title: “An issue of pedagogical concern: Why does it take so long to Albanian students        to develop English communicative fluency?” Published in Elsevier, Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, April 2016

Projects

  • COST ACTION: CA 18209 – EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR WEB-CENTERED LINGUISTIC DATA SCIENCE, Estonia and Belgium, To promote synergies across Europe between linguists, computer scientists, terminologists, and other stakeholders in industry and society, in order to investigate and extend the area of linguistic data science. To construct a mature holistic ecosystem of multilingual and semantically inter-operable linguistic data at Web Scale., 09/2019 – ongoing
  • COST ACTION: CA18231 MULTI3GENERATION: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Generation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Language generation is a crucial technology if machines are to communicate with humans seamlessly using human natural language. The scientific scope of this action tackles areas of expertise such as linguistics, formal, cognitive, functional, computational, natural language processing, and machine learning., 09/2019 – ongoing
  • VISEGRAD + FUNDS ” CLIL-HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHER”, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava University, Slovakia, A didactic program will be designed to support disciplinary university teachers to develop didactic and pedagogical competence for effective EEE., 06/2019 – ongoing