Post-Diploma Training Program

• Formation of a holistic view of pedagogical activity and pedagogical systems of teaching Russian as a foreign language;
• Development of skills for the practical application of professional and pedagogical knowledge;
• Formation of the ability to carry out self-analysis and evaluation of the results of their own activities, as well as the activities of other trainees;
• Development of personal and professional qualities of a teacher, including the psychological and pedagogical foundations of the educational process;
• The ability to conduct language testing and apply testing methods in RCT lessons.

The advantage of the program is the unique and authoritative faculty team in the field of teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, whose concepts are widely implemented in the practice. The instructors of this team are the initiators and developers of a number of innovative and proprietary projects, such as the Russian State Certification Testing System, a set of new-generation teaching aids for various stages of Russian as a Foreign Language education, and more.

• aspects of phonetics;
• phonemic and phonetic transcriptions;
• the phonemic system of the contemporary Russian language;
• phoneme alternation;
• a syllable and syllabic division;
• word stress;
• intonation;
• orthoepy;
• graphics and spelling.

• Russian as one of the world languages and oral activity in Russian;
• specificity of the discipline "Russian as a Foreign Language";
• Russian as a foreign language, Russian civilization, and language comparison in learning.

• theoretical bases of the methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language;
• the main options and profiles of teaching Russian as a foreign language;
• teaching aspects of the language;
• the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language.

• linguo-cultural studies, their object, and subject of study;
• national and cultural language semantics of the language;
• nationally- and culturally-based knowledge and perceptions, and their role in communication;
• country studies through a language as a linguistic and methodological discipline, its subject, and objectives;
• national and cultural aspects of communication;
• the problem of building a culturological competence in a foreign student.

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Language for Humanities and Natural Sciences faculties at St Petersburg University.

Scientific supervisor of the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language.

Administrative experience: Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Russian Studies, Deputy Dean of the Philological Faculty, Deputy Dean of the Special Philological Faculty.

International experience: Lectures, seminars, and practical sessions at the University of Khartoum (Sudan), Universities in Helsinki, Turku, Joensuu (Finland), University of California (USA), University of Cambridge (UK), International Russian Language Seminar in Timmendorfer Strand (Germany).

Area of scientific interest: Difficult cases of Russian grammar in teaching foreigners, testing foreigners in Russian, language norm issues, methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign Language.

Author of over 100 scientific and methodological works, including 7 scientific papers in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of its Teaching at St Petersburg University, Honored Worker of Education of the Russian Federation.

Teaching the Russian at the University of Minnesota (USA, 2000, 2002).

Areas of scientific interest: Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language (theoretical issues, history of methodology, methodology of scientific research), methods of teaching foreign languages (general issues), pedagogy (theoretical and methodological issues, history of pedagogy).

Author of over 300 scientific works. Personal h-index is 7. The scientist has 9 scientific papers in journals indexed in Web of Science.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Introduction to the Specialty" and "Peculiarities of Teaching Russian as a foreign Language at the initial stage of learning."

The head of the Department of Russian Language for Humanities and Natural Sciences faculties at St Petersburg University.

Areas of scientific interest: Linguistic text analysis, Functional syntax, Internet linguistics. The author of more than 30 published scientific and methodological works.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Linguistic Foundations of Describing Russian as a Foreign Language. Syntax". Students` graduation projects supervision.

PhD in Philological sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and its Teaching Methodology at St Petersburg University.

Areas of scientific interest: Methodology of teaching foreign languages and Russian as a foreign language, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language at the initial stage, Speaking as a type of speech activity, Linguodidactic testing, Psycholinguistics, Art in the context of Russian as a Foreign Language.

International experience: Free University of Berlin.

Author of 50 published scientific and methodological works.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Linguistic Foundations of Describing Russian as a Foreign Language." Student`s graduation projects supervision.

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and its Teaching Methodology at the Philological Faculty of St Petersburg University.

One of the authors of Russian language textbooks for foreign students, including "Vot eto da! Textbook on Russian Spoken Language", "Nachnyom! ", "Pyatyorochka: Textbook on Russian as a Foreign Language," "Takaya raznaya Rossia: a Country Studies Course for Learners of Russian as a Foreign Language," "Russkoye Polye: Educational Complex in RFL. II Certification Level. General Language Skills," and the author of the training manual "Ne Prosto Phonetika - a Song!" and others.

International experience: Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language at Harbin Technical University (China), Russian as a Foreign Language courses in Germany and Austria.

Authorship of over 70 published scientific and methodological works, with 10 scientific papers published in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Methodology of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language."

Doctor of Philological Sciences. Professor at the Department of Russian Language for Humanities and Natural Sciences faculties at St Petersburg University.

Research interests: Phraseology and Paremiology (stylistic, linguacultural, pragmatic, comparative aspects). Linguistic analysis of text (illustrative and expressive functions of language means). Features of language in modern mass media. Issues of testing in Russian as a foreign language.

Authorship of over 150 scientific and methodological works, 6 scientific papers published in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Modern Russian Language." Students` graduation projects supervision.

PhD in Philological sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and its Teaching Methodology at St Petersburg University.

Areas of scientific interest: Methodology of teaching foreign languages and Russian as a foreign language, psycholinguistics, art in the context of Russian as a Foreign Language, Linguodidactic foundations of testing.

International experience: University of Bergen, Norway; Krakow Pedagogical University, Poland.

Authorship of over 50 published scientific and methodological works.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Linguodidactic Foundations of Testing" and supervises graduation projects of students enrolled in the program.

PhD in Pedagogic sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and its Teaching Methodology at St Petersburg University.

Areas of scientific interest: Theory and Methodology of Russian as a foreign language, Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language at the initial stage, Teaching speaking as a type of speech activity, innovative teaching methods.

International experience: Dresden University.

Authorship of over 20 published scientific and methodological works.

Lecturing on the Additional Educational Post-Diploma Training Program in Russian as a Foreign Language includes "Methodology of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language". Supervising of pedagogical practice and graduation projects of students enrolled in the program.