Anna Leontieva

Anna L. Leontyeva

Citizenship: Russia, Israel

Address: Moscow, Shipilovskaya, 50 – 2 – 279

Phone: +7 916 703 56 78

Email: annaleontyeva1978@gmail.com

Interests:

Russian, semantics, discourse analysis, speech of people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

Education

Ph.D. (candidate of philology) – linguistics, Moscow State University (2004)

M.A. (with distinction) – philology, teaching RFL, Nizhny Novgorod State University (2001)

B.A. (with distinction) – philology, (1999)

Job Related Training:

Teach English now, TESOL Certificate, Arizona State University in Coursera (2015 - present):

https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/certificate/GP38348GGDRS

https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/RCRPHLQ979GT

https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/GS5VSGRL4FKC

Shaping the Way We Teach English, 1: The Landscape of English Language Teaching, American English Institute, University of Oregon - in Coursera (2015):

https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/certificate/get_certificate?course_id=974819

Shaping the Way We Teach English, 2: Paths to Success in ELT, American English Institute, University of Oregon - in Coursera (2015): https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/certificate/get_certificate?course_id=974973

The bilingual brain, University of Houston –- in Coursera (2015):  https://www.coursera.org/maestro/api/certificate/get_certificate?course_id=975510

Work Experience: 

Moscow State University (Leninskie Gory, 1, building 51, suite 1, philological faculty, office 867, Moscow, 119991, Russia)

10/2002 - 09/2014; 09/20015 – 06/2016: tutor of RFL for all levels

School №315 (Rusakovskaya St., 10, Moscow, 107140, Russia)

02/2002 - 05/2002 – teacher of academic writing

Language Skills: 

Russian – native, English – advanced, Hebrew – upper-intermediate, Czech – lower intermediate

Teaching philosophy

A teacher of a foreign language, what does it mean? An interesting guide or a boring nurse? A talented actor or a strict mentor? Or maybe he or she plays all these roles? For me, a teacher of a foreign language is like a potter. Not Harry Potter, of course, but surely a kind of wizard. Why a potter? Because a teacher creates a usable language competence of his or her students like a potter creates something usable and very useful – pottery. We create something usable and useful out of nothing. And it is a kind of miracle, is not it? This is what teaching means to me.

I teach Russian as a foreign language. This is a two-sided process. On the one hand, I teach my students to acquire a language as a system, and, on the other hand, I must teach them to use this system adequately, i.e. to communicate in a target language. And the former is just a means of the latter.

Nobody can acquire a language in a day. And even a year is not enough. Thus, my short-term goal is to provide my students with the minimal language knowledge to be successful in communication. If their message is understandable and they can understand simple speech of friendly people, I did my job well. As for my long term goals, I want to teach my students to communicate in Russian out of my class: to read different texts from internet and to listen to authentic music, to write letters and to talk with native speakers and with other people who also know the Russian language.