Brief professional CV
Name, surname, degree: Petr Borovicka, MA, BA
Date of birth: 4 May 1975
Employment:
Grammar School Ústí nad Orlicí (since 1997): teaching English and Italian languages; deputy headmaster (since August 2012)
Trade Licences:
Petr Borovicka, MA – English Service
(registered with the local Trade Licensing Office, 7 July 1997)
- Translations and interpreting, proofreading and language counselling
- Language teaching: English language and Italian language
Specialization:
Certified translator of English and Czech
(appointed by the Regional Court in Hradec Králové on 23 October 1998, ref.
no. 242/98)
Studies:
- Grammar School TGM in Ústí nad Orlicí (1989–1993)
- Educational stay in the United Kingdom (PWS, Oundle, 1992)
- Intensive English & Computers Course (1993–1994)
- General State Language Examination in English (1994)
- Institute of Languages & Humanities of University of Pardubice (1994–1999)
- Educational stay at American schools in Germany (Heidelberg, 1995)
- Italian language and literature, University of Brno, Czech Republic (2001–2004)
Special courses:
- Translation Theory and Criticism Course (1995–1997)
- Course of Academic Writing, Stylistics and Applied Linguistics (1994–1997)
- Business English (2002)
- Computer Proficiency Courses (2005)
Positions and experience:
- Organizer of company selection procedures and language competence testing, student exchange trips
- Interpreter of business dealings in the Czech Republic and abroad, wedding ceremonies, lawsuits
- Participant in conferences on translation in the Czech Republic and abroad
- Teacher of tailored and general language courses, courses of business English, presentation course for management
- Member of translation associations in the Czech Republic and abroad, exam committees, teacher union head, head of the foreign language department of the Grammar School Ústí nad Orlicí, etc.
Published academic papers:
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (1997)
- CALL: The State of the Art (1999)
- La Civiltà dei Piceni e la loro capitale (2004)