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Changing Times: ELT in the Soviet Union and Modern Russian
(virtual) Session 3 on Friday, March 08, from 4:15-4:45 PM (PT)
Olga Kuznetsova has been engaged in English language education since 1949 to the present. In this session, the interviewer will share Olga’s impressions of the ebb and flow of approaches, methodologies, and tactics in English classrooms from her perspective as an elementary through high school student, university student, educator, and professional.
Maxine Pond has been an English language educator since 1998. Her experience includes teaching in Japan and Lithuania and short-term teaching in the USA, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Libya. Her BA is in secondary education, MA in Linguistics (TESOL), and Ed.D. in Adult and Higher Education. Maxine is retired and lives in Montana.
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Olga Kuznetsova taught ESP in SPbSU faculties of Economics, Journalism, Sociology, Psychology and Physics. She received specialized trainings in the Emotional and Semantic Method (1974) and Lawlor’s Inner Track Learning (1991). She co-founded the St. Petersburg English Language Teachers’ Association (1994). Her research interest is the role of emotions in motivation.
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Olga Kuznetsova taught ESP in SPbSU faculties of Economics, Journalism, Sociology, Psychology and Physics. She received specialized trainings in the Emotional and Semantic Method (1974) and Lawlor’s Inner Track Learning (1991). She co-founded the St. Petersburg English Language Teachers’ Association (1994). Her research interest is the role of emotions in motivation.