Dr Olesya Kharina is a Teaching Associate in the School of Languages and Cultures. She has been teaching Russian language and relevant disciplines for about two decades. She conducted lectures and seminars in phonetics, sociolinguistics, linguacultural study, and methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language at Moscow educational institutions.
Olesya holds a Bachelor (Honours) of Arts and a PhD in Philological Sieneses from Moscow State Pedagogical University. Her PhD thesis (2007) incorporated linguistic research of various functions of words representing some key concepts of Russian culture in F. Dostoevsky’s novels. The main content of the research was reflected in six articles by the author published in Russian.
Olesya received additional training in teaching Russian as a foreign language and implementing the TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) at Moscow State University and RUDN University (Peoples’ Friendship University). Her focus is on methods of teaching Russian as a second language and her personal interest is in intercultural language learning, translation, author’s writing style and the cultural, social and linguistic relationship.
Availability
Dr Olesya Kharina is:
Available for supervision
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, Moscow State Pedagogical University
Research interests
Key concepts in the author’s text
Author’s key concepts and functions of words representing cultural key concepts in the author’s writing style.
F. Dostoevsky’s language and philosophy
Functions of words representing cultural and author’s key concepts in F. Dostoevsky’s works.
