Vlasta Štofová, PhD

Comenius University

Vlasta, a native of Slovakia, holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Comenius University of Bratislava and a MA  in TESOL from the University of Central Florida. Her teaching background is quite long and diverse. She used to teach at the Department of Continuous Education at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, 10 years in Hungary under the Slovak Ministry of Education mandate, and 3 wonderful years as an adjunct instructor at the Center for Multilingual Studies at UCF and Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida. Currently, as a freelance instructor, she is giving Slovak lessons to foreigners – mostly Ukrainians and US students. Since 2003, she has been a part of the University of Pittsburgh’s SLI program teaching Slovak at all skill levels; this is her 21st year with a break in 2015 and 2018. She was also working as a site coordinator and Director of the Pitt to Slovakia program from 2009-2019.