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Katica Balenović, PhD

was born in Gospić where she graduated from primary and secondary school. In 1988 she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zadar with a degree in  English and Sociology. From 1988 to 2003 she worked as an English teacher at secondary schools in Gospić and Zagreb. From 1995 she also worked as an external lecturer at the Teacher Training College in Gospić.  Since the academic year 2002-2003 she has worked at the Teacher Training College in Gospić (now: the University of Zadar, Department of Teacher Education Studies), first as a lecturer and then as a senior lecturer. In 2005, she was enrolled on the postgraduate study programme European studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact where she defended her Master's thesis entitled Motivation of Adult Learners of English in the Context of Globalisation in 2009. She defended her dissertation entitled Marker of definiteness/indefiniteness in the interlanguage of primary school EFL learners in 2012 when she acquired a PhD in linguistics (English Studies).  In 2015, she received the academic title of assistant professor. In 2021, she was awarded the academic title of associate professor in the field of Humanities, Linguistics (English Studies). At the Department of Teacher Education Studies in Gospić and the Department of Teacher and Pre-school Teacher Education, University of Zadar, she is the holder of the following courses: English language, English for Academic Purposes, First/Second Language Acquisition, Integrated Language Skills in the English Language, Children's Literature in English, Academic Discourse in English. She has been the supervisor for more than thirty theses. She has been involved in organizing several local and international academic conferences and has presented papers at local and international conferences. She has published about thirty scientific and professional papers in the field of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics dealing with markers of definiteness/indefiniteness, English/Croatian language contacts and second language learning/teaching.  She is the author of the academic monograph (Inter(Language)& (E)FL Article. At Teacher Education Studies, she performed the duties of the Vice Dean for Education, Head of the Department, and now the  ECTS/Erasmus Coordinator. She is a member of the Croatian Association for Applied Linguistics and a member of the Croatian Association of Teachers of English.

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