teaching philosophy

I started teaching at university level in 2007 and since then have seen students from programs such as Bachelor of English Studies, Master of English, Bachelor of History, Language & Communication, and similar humanities courses.

I aim to teach systematic thinking, research skills, and basic methodological competences such as software-aided text analysis, which are useful in research but also make students employable outside of academia. My methods courses are built on problem-based learning: I give my students an opportunity to work with real-life linguistic and communication problems. I am open to proposals from companies to incorporate their problems into my MA syllabus and provide them with solutions developed by a group of motivated MA students of linguistics.

 

Teaching experience

All the courses, except for the Introduction to English Linguistics 1-2 and the Basic Seminars I-III, were independently prepared. This included scope planning, developing the syllabus and preparatory reading, practical in-class and homework exercises, and final assessment.

Undergraduate (BA level) seminars

  • Lecture/Tutorial Introduction to English Linguistics 1

  • Lecture/Tutorial Introduction to English Linguistics 2

  • Basic Seminar I: Structure and Use

  • Basic Seminar II: English in its social contexts – TAUGHT PREDOMINANTLY ONLINE in spring 2020

  • Basic Seminar III: Language and the mind

  • Comparative language structures and language typology

  • Pragmatics

  • Discourse and context

  • English and Social Media

  • Speech acts

  • Linguistic approaches to translation and interpreting studies

  • Workshop “Academic writing for linguists”, a day course

mixed (BA/MA) level seminars

  • Applied linguistics: Translation, Language learning, Forensics

  • Corpus approaches to variation in English – TAUGHT PREDOMINANTLY ONLINE, spring 2020

  • Corpus-based language studies

  • Computer-mediated communication

  • Cognitive linguistics

  • Conversation analysis

  • Discursive identity construction in English

  • English syntactic structures

  • Forensic linguistics

  • Methods in discourse and text analysis

  • Politeness and Impoliteness

  • Second language acquisition

  • Language in the workplace

  • Phonetics and phonology

MA level seminars

  • Corpus linguistics

  • Colloquium on methods ‘Corpus linguistics’

  • Language of seduction and manipulation

  • Orality and literacy

  • Pragmatics and genres of persuasive language – TAUGHT PREDOMINANTLY ONLINE, spring 2020

Lecture