Anastasia Sergeyevna Vyrenkova
- Academic Director: Doctoral School of Philology
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Anastasia Sergeyevna Vyrenkova has been at HSE University since 2008.
Education and Degrees
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
- Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2009–2011)
Courses (2025/2026)
- English for Specific Academic Purposes. Linguistics - 3 (Optional course; 1-3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Humanities; 3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Postgraduate Seminar (Postgraduate course; Faculty of Humanities field of study Postgraduate Studies; 3 year, 1 semester)Rus
- Postgraduate Seminar (Postgraduate course; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Postgraduate Seminar (Postgraduate course; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics of Errors in the Light of Language Interference" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2024/2025)
- English for Specific Academic Purposes. Linguistics - 3 (Optional course; 1-3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Online course development (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Postgraduate Seminar (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics of Errors in the Light of Language Interference" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Strategy of Research Writing (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Stylistics in teaching Russian as a foreign language to heritage students (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Stylistics in teaching Russian as a foreign language to heritage students (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
Courses (2023/2024)
- English for Specific Academic Purposes. Linguistics - 3 (Optional course; 1-3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language in Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Online course development (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics of Errors in the Light of Language Interference" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Strategy of Research Writing (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Stylistics in teaching Russian as a foreign language to heritage students (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Stylistics in teaching Russian as a foreign language to heritage students (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Contemporary Russian Language from the Perspective of Teaching it to Foreign Students (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- English for Specific Academic Purposes. Linguistics - 3 (Optional course; 1-3 module)Eng
- English for Specific Purposes. General Linguistics - 1 (Optional course; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Mago-Lego; 2, 3 module)Eng
- Heritage Russian language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Eng
- Language in Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Online course development (Postgraduate course field of study Postgraduate Studies; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics of Errors in the Light of Language Interference" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Contemporary Russian Language from the Perspective of Teaching it to Foreign Students (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Heritage Russian language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Language Interference: Theory and Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Language in Society (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Online course development (Postgraduate course field of study Linguistics and Literature Studies; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics of Errors in the Light of Language Interference" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Continuing Education
- January 31 - February 4, 2011 - International House London Foundation Course in Teaching English for Business, Certificate (32 academic hours, Moscow State University)
- November - December 2009 - Teacher training course in preparing students for Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 24 hours, Authorised Cambridge ESOL Centre
Professional and Academic Interests
- Teaching English (General English, Business English)
- Semantics
- Computational linguistics
Academic Work
- Creating language proficiency tests for different stages of learning
- Preparing oral test materials
- Creating supplementary materials for building foreign language skills
- Participating in the development of pass/fail tests
Courses
- An Analysis of Shakespeare's Text - Undergraduate level, Faculty of Philology; 1st year; Blocks 1, 2
- Argumentation in English - Undergraduate level, Faculty of Philology; 1st year; Blocks 2, 3
- Argumentation in English - Undergraduate level, Faculty of Philology; 2nd year; Block 3
Conferences
- 2026
10-й Колмогоровский семинар по компьютерной лингвистике и наукам о языке (Москва). Presentation: Сравнение количественных характеристик текстов стандартных и нестандартных носителей
Международная научная конференция «Русский язык в многоязычном мире» (Москва). Presentation: Хорошо ли носители русского языка замечают лексические ошибки?
22nd International Morphology Meeting (Будапешт). Presentation: Morphological errors or linguistic creativity: evidence from human speakers and LLMs
XXIX Международная объединенная научная конференция «Интернет и современное общество (Internet and Modern Society – IMS-2026, CompLing-2026)» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Descriptiveness and Formalization in Error Annotation: a Case of Russian Learner Corpus
31-я Международная конференция по компьютерной лингвистике и интеллектуальным технологиям Диалог 2026 (Москва). Presentation: Correcting or Rewriting? An Expert Evaluation of LLM-Based GEC on Academic Learner Data
- 2025
Международная научная конференция «Русский язык в многоязычном мире» (Москва). Presentation: Становление глагольной морфологии в русском как иностранном: корпусное исследование
Искусственный интеллект и общество (Artificial Intelligence and Society, AIS) (Москва). Presentation: Графовое представление академического текста для сравнения речи стандартных и нестандартных носителей английского языка
13th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Монреаль). Presentation: Acquisition of verbal paradigms in Russian as a second language
AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) (Прага). Presentation: L2 acquisition of verb and noun paradigms: a study on Russian
- 2024
Международная научная конференция «Русский язык в многоязычном мире» (Москва). Presentation: Русский учебный корпус как мультиязычный ресурс
The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (Турин). Presentation: Russian Learner Corpus: Towards Error-Cause Annotation for L2 Russian
The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference (Великобритания). Presentation: Crowdsourcing for Error Correction in L2 Writing
From Summer Schools to a Supercomputer: HSE Delegation Visits Uzbekistan
An official HSE University delegation representing all four campuses visited Uzbekistan from October 3–6. HSE managers, teachers and researchers met with their peers from partner universities and government agencies to outline new areas of cooperation, discuss joint projects, programmes, and activities for students, and hold lectures and master classes. The participants shared their impressions of the trip with HSE News Service.
‘Organising a Double Defence on Zoom Is a Real Challenge’
Alexey Lukashkin, a graduate of a cotutelle doctoral programme in philology arranged by HSE University and the Sorbonne, defended his doctoral thesis before the HSE University Dissertation Council in Philology and Linguistics. Along with a Russian Candidate of Sciences degree in Philology, he received a PhD. The HSE News Service spoke with Alexey about his studies and research.