Elena Kuzina

 

Personal information

 

First name(s) / Surname(s) : Elena Kuzina

Address(es): 68, Sotsialistichesky Pr., 656049, Barnaul, Russia

Telephone(s): +7 3852 296540, + 7 9132122674

E-mail: keepsake27@rambler.ru

Skype: le_kuz

Current employment / Occupational field: 

• Associate professor of the department of foreign languages (business and law profiles), PhD in philology, Altai State University

 

Education & training 

 

2013–2014

October, 2014

TEMPUS IV training programme

Lifelong learning in the knowledge economy: theoretical and practical implications for language education

Institute of Education

University of London

 

January-March, 2014

Introduction to Academic Writing

University without Borders

 

May, 2013

Modern ELT Concepts and Methodology, Teaching for International ESOL Examinations

Embassy of the United States, Moscow,

Institute of Economics and Management, Barnaul

 

2005-2012

PhD in Philology/Kandidat, Philology;

thesis “Characteristic Features of the Narrative Structure of the English Romantic Discourse”, Altai State Pedagogical Academy

  

1999-2004

“Diplom” (Bachelor's and Master's degrees),

Theory & Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures

Barnaul State Pedagogical University, Linguistic Institute

 

 

Scientific interests

 

Theory of language and  discourse, text linguistics, interdiscursivity and intertextuality, stylistics, intercultural communication, methodology and techniques to develop language skills, professionally-oriented language competence formation, business communication, academic writing skills development, teaching for international ESOL examinations, etc.