Mgr. Diana Patricia Varela Cano, PhD.
Faculty: Faculty of Applied Languages
Department: Department of Romance and Slavic Languages
Position: Assistant Professor
Scientific-pedagogical characteristics of the person
Second degree of higher education
Study field and programme: Master (Mgr.) - Pedagogy - psychology, 1988 — 1993, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Third degree of higher education
Study field and programme: Doctoral studies in school psychology; Doctoral studies in psycholinguistics, 1998; 2004, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
Current and previous employment
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Applied Languages University of Economics in Bratislava
2012 –
Reviewer - Graduation tests, Teaching and scientific activities in the field of foreign language teaching
National Institute for Certified Educational Measurement (NUCEM) in Bratislava
2010 –
Assistant Professor, Coordinator for Spanish Language Practice, Teaching and Research in Foreign Language Teaching, Spanish Language Didactics
Department of Romance Languages and Literature Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava
1998 — 2012
Spanish language teacher
French School of Bratislava
2007 — 2019
Spanish language teacher
The British International School, Bratislava
2001 — 2007
Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills
Update course for EU Spanish language teachers: use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain
2011
Didactics course for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language in primary school
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2009
Didactics course for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language in secondary school
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2006
Course for professors of Spanish language and literature
Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), Madrid
2001
Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university
Number of defended theses
Bachelor's (first degree): 35
Diploma (second degree): 43
Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs
Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 15
Number of invited lectures at the international, national level: 3
The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
Comparison of Life Ways from the Viewpoints of Slovak and Spanish University Students
CHMELÁROVÁ, Zuzana - PASIAR, Ladislav - VARELA CANO, Diana Patricia. Comparison of Life Ways from the Viewpoints of Slovak and Spanish University Students. In Tem Journal: Technology, Education, Management, Informatics : Journal of the Association for Information Communication Technologies, Education and Science. - Novi Pazar : UIKTEN. ISSN 2217-8309, 2024, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1718-1725.
The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
Comparison of Life Ways from the Viewpoints of Slovak and Spanish University Students
CHMELÁROVÁ, Zuzana - PASIAR, Ladislav - VARELA CANO, Diana Patricia. Comparison of Life Ways from the Viewpoints of Slovak and Spanish University Students. In Tem Journal: Technology, Education, Management, Informatics : Journal of the Association for Information Communication Technologies, Education and Science. - Novi Pazar : UIKTEN. ISSN 2217-8309, 2024, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1718-1725.
AEC – Volksbefragung 2016 in Kolumbien und ihre Sprache. In Heiße Wahlen und Referenden in Europa und Amerika - Kampf mit Wörtern um Wörter. - Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2018. ISBN 978-3-339-10026-9, s. 177-193 [1,08 AH].
ADF – Equivalentes fraseológicos entre el español de Colombia y el idioma eslovaco. In Fórum cudzích jazykov, politológie, a medzinárodných vzťahov : medzinárodný elektronický časopis zameraný na cudzie jazyky, politológiu a medzinárodné vzťahy = International Electronic Journal Focused on Foreign Languages, Politology and International Relations [elektronický zdroj]. - Sládkovičovo : Vysoká škola Danubius, 2017. ISSN 2454-0145, 2017, vol. 9, no. 2, s. 106-120 CD-ROM.
AEC – Analyse der Wirtschaftssprache Spanisch anhand der Beispiele aus dem kolumbianischen Wirtschaftsmagazin La Nota Económica. In Wirtschaftssprache im Wandel : Eine Forschungsstudie in vier Sprachen, fokussiert auf den Fremdsprachenunterricht. - Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2018. ISBN 978-3-8300-9822-5, s. 99-132 [1,67 AH].
ABC – Kontrastive Analyse der Phraseologismen und Metaphern: spanisch (Kolumbien) – slowakisch. In Macht der Sprache - Sprache der Macht : eine kontrastive mehrsprachige Analyse anhand von Korpustexten der meinungsbildenden Tageszeitungen mit Fokus auf Phraseologie und Metaphernforschung. - Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2017. ISBN 978-3-8300-9571-2, s. 163-200 [1,49 AH].
AED – Estrategias para el desarrollo de la competencia léxica en el aprendizaje de ELE In: Nové impulzy vo výskume cudzích jazykov a interkultúrnej komunikácie [elektronický dokument] : zborník – 1. vyd. – Trnava (Slovensko) : Slovenská spoločnosť pre regionálnu politiku, 2020. – ISBN 978-80-972278-6-9, s. 121-132 [CD-ROM]
The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
Projekt KEGA č. 007EU-4/2018: Inovácia jazykovej prípravy ekonómov, diplomatov a kultúrnych mediátorov – digitálna učebnica španielskeho jazyka zameraná na odbornú / KEGA project no. 007EU-4/2018: Innovation of language training for economists, diplomats and cultural mediators - a digital textbook of Spanish focused on vocational
2008 — 2014, Projekt ESC a Ministerstvo Školstva, Vzdelávanie učiteľov základných v oblasti cudzích jazykov v súvislosti s Koncepciou vyučovania cudzích jazykov na základných a stredných školách (koordinátor španielskeho jazyka) ŠPÚ / 2008 - 2014, ESC Project and Ministry of Education, Training of primary teachers in the field of foreign languages in connection with the Concept of Teaching Foreign Languages in Primary and Secondary Schools (coordinator of Spanish language) THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION (ŠPU)
2006 — 2009, Projekt VEGA, Viacjazyčná terminologická databáza k Spoločnému európskemu referenčnému rámcu pre jazyky, Pedagogická fakulta UK / 2006 - 2009, VEGA Project, Multilingual Terminology Database for the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, Faculty of Education, Charles University
2006 — 2008, Projekt KEGA, Špecifikácia výstupného maturitného testu z cudzích jazykov, Pedagogická fakulta, Bratislava / 2006 - 2008, Project KEGA, Specification of the final school-leaving examination in foreign languages, Faculty of Education, Bratislava
KEGA/ePortfólio ako pedagogika facilitujúca integrované učenie 012EU-4/2023.
Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
Projekt KEGA č. 007EU-4/2018: Inovácia jazykovej prípravy ekonómov, diplomatov a kultúrnych mediátorov – digitálna učebnica španielskeho jazyka zameraná na odbornú / KEGA project no. 007EU-4/2018: Innovation of language training for economists, diplomats and cultural mediators - a digital textbook of Spanish focused on vocational
2008 — 2014, Projekt ESC a Ministerstvo Školstva, Vzdelávanie učiteľov základných v oblasti cudzích jazykov v súvislosti s Koncepciou vyučovania cudzích jazykov na základných a stredných školách (koordinátor španielskeho jazyka) ŠPÚ / 2008 - 2014, ESC Project and Ministry of Education, Training of primary teachers in the field of foreign languages in connection with the Concept of Teaching Foreign Languages in Primary and Secondary Schools (coordinator of Spanish language) THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION (ŠPU)
2006 — 2009, Projekt VEGA, Viacjazyčná terminologická databáza k Spoločnému európskemu referenčnému rámcu pre jazyky, Pedagogická fakulta UK / 2006 - 2009, VEGA Project, Multilingual Terminology Database for the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, Faculty of Education, Charles University
2006 — 2008, Projekt KEGA, Špecifikácia výstupného maturitného testu z cudzích jazykov, Pedagogická fakulta, Bratislava / 2006 - 2008, Project KEGA, Specification of the final school-leaving examination in foreign languages, Faculty of Education, Bratislava
KEGA/ePortfólio ako pedagogika facilitujúca integrované učenie 012EU-4/2023.
Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities
Member
Central Commission for Pre-primary and Primary Education Language and Communication - Foreign Language
2010
Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study
University of Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba
5.2. - 15.3.2018,
research stay, Cuba scholarship
University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
12. – 19. 02.2017,
teacher mobility Erasmus
University of Granada, Ceuta, Spain
10. – 17. 04.2016,
teacher mobility Erasmus
University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
11. – 17. 04.2012,
teacher mobility Erasmus
University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
19. – 25. 02.2011,
teacher mobility Erasmus
Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), Madrid, Madrid, Spain
7.1. – 30.6. 2001,
course for Spanish teachers, AECI Spain grant
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – University School of Tourism of Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain
14.5–21.5.2023,
teacher mobility Erasmus