About+your+teacher



Elena is a graduate of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University and has a degree in the English and French languages. Upon successful graduation she was employed as an English language teacher delivering a practical grammar course to junior students at the University she had graduated from. After two years’ work at the university Elena moved to Moscow and was proposed a position of an English teacher at the Institute of Practical Oriental Studies initiated by the decision of the Academic Council of the Institute of Asian and African Studies (IAAS) of Moscow State University (MSU). Elena has been working in MIPT since 2007 and is participating in various programs of English Language teaching, one of which is an innovative course for IBS students doing their Master’s Degree. Elena is deeply involved in preparing and setting tests, examination papers, and exercises, devising, writing and producing innovative study materials, including audio and visual resources. Her role is to provide students with the tools they need, inspire them to do great things, give them confidence and courage to believe they can, and create the right conditions for them to discover and create on their own. She is fully convinced what she gives to her students will come back to her in many wonderful and unexpected ways.

ILTS certificate Certificate in Information and Communication Technologies in teaching foreign languages issued by Moscow State University
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