Tatiana A. Gouralnik

SeniorTeacher, English Department, Samara State University,
Samara, Russia

e-mail: gouralni@mail.ru

 

Qualification: Philologist. Teacher of the English Language and Literature

Education: Diploma from Samara (Kuibyshev) State University, Department of Philology, Division of Romance and Germanic Languages, 1974-1979, Samara, Russia

Certificates: Certificate of participation from The British Council Samara for the seminar "The Basics of Internet" for ESL Teachers, January-February, 2005

Certificate of completion from IATP Project Harmony training course for Creating Distance Learning Teaching Materials on the basis of "eLearning Office 3000", February-March, 2004, Samara, Russia

Certificate of completion from the College of St Mark and St John in Course Design, Materials Writing and Trainer Development, February-August 2002, Plymouth, England-Samara-Moscow, Russia

Certificate of Completion from IATP Project Harmony Summer School "Teaching with Case Studies", June-July 2002, St Petersburg

Certificate of Completion from Open Society Institute in New York "English Language Teaching Methodology", Distinction for Level 3, Samara 2001

Employment: Senior Teacher, 1995 - present, English Department, Samara State University, Samara Russia

Instructor (full-time) - January 1988 - August 1995, English Department, Samara State University, Samara, Russia

Instructor (part-time) September 1984 - December 1987, English Department, Samara State University, Samara, Russia

Interpreter January 1980 - August 1984, "Volgaburmash" enterprise, Samara, Russia (a joint USSR-USA Rock Bit Plant construction project)

Lecturer (part-time) 2003 - present, Samara Aerospace University, Department of Translation for Specific Purposes

Teacher-trainer (part-time) 2001-present, Volga Humanitarian Foundation, Samara, Russia

Teacher-trainer, instructor 1995 - 2001, Open Society Institute, Samara, Russia

Instructor October 1979 -January 1980, State Polytechnical Institute, Samara, Russia

Fellowship: JFDP visiting scholar 8/1997 -5/1998,, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

Membership: member of International TESOL (USA), 1999-2000, Membership Number 49439
member of Samara Chapter TESOL-Russia, 1995-present

Conferences: International Conference "Global English for Global Understanding, May 23-25, 2001, Moscow

34 Annual TESOL Convention, Vancouver 2000

International Conference "Language in the Multicultural World" 21-23 October, 1999, Samara, Russia

33 Annual TESOL Convention, March 9-13,1999, New York, NY, USA

Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota
24-25 October 1997, Fargo, ND, USA

Recognitions Certificate of Appreciation from Volga Humanitarian Foundation for valuable contributions to American Graduate Admission Examinations workshops, December 2001, Samara Russia

Publications:

1. *Pimakhina. Т.А. Semantic characteristics of neologisms inmodern English // Semantics of language units. Proceedings of research conference. Izhevsk, 1990 p.35.

2. Pimakhina Т.А. Semantics of English neologisms // Systems ties in grammar and lexicon of Germanic languages. Samara University Press, 1991, p.24-31.

3. Pimakhina Т.А. Stylistic features of English neologisms // Functional aspects of language study. .Samara University Press, 1992, pp.105-113.

4. Gouralnik T. "On some observations of teen and college slang" Abstract// Proceedings of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, XXXVII [37], 1997, pp.17-18

5. Gouralnik Т.А. On some specific features of American college slang // Semantics and pragmatics in the dialogue of cultures. Samara University Press, 1999, pp.61-67

6. Gouralnik Т.А. Key Words in American Academic Culture Proceedings of International Conference "Language in the Multicultural World".Samara, 1999, pp. 139-140

7. Gouralnik Т.А. New words in American culture and the problem of translation // Abstracts of the workshop "Problems of Applied Linguistics".Penza, 1999, pp.71-72

8.Gouralnik T. Using Electronic Newspapers in the EFL Classroom pp. 29-31 in Sovremennye strategii obucheniya anglijskomu yazyku: teoriya I praktika. Materilay I tezisy 7th Mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-pralticheskoi konferentsii. Samara, 2000.

9. Gouralnik T. Instructional Value of the Internet for Developing Linguistic Competence of Philology Students pp. 24-26 in Anglijskij yazyk v sisteme shkola-vuz. Programma nauchno-metodicheskoi konferetsii. Samara, 2001.

10. Gouralnik T. Developing cross-cultural skills of Russian applicants for international academic programs p.5 in Global English for Global Understanding. Materials of the International Conference. Moscow, 2001.

11. Gouralnik Т. Courts and Trials: Handbook for Senior Students. Samara: Samara University, 2001. 52 p.

12. Gouralnik T. "Interaction of culture and language in the sphere of nomination (on the material of AmE new coinages) pp. 22-29 in Kommunikatsiya v dialoge kultur. Samara: Samara University, 2002.

13. Gouralnik T. Structure and Principles of the Course 'New Information Technologies for Philology Students' pp.89-91 in Informatsionny bulleten No.6 Soveta po filologii uchebno-metodicheskogog objedineniya po klassicheskomu universitetskomu obrazovaniyu. Samara, 2003.

14. Gouralnik T. On the Role of Linguistic Analogy in Creating Neologisms in American English pp.56-63 in Aspekty stanovleniya i funktsionirovaniya zapadnogermanskikh yazykov. Samara: Samara University, 2003.

15. Gouralnik T. Conceptual field of 'Culture' and Its Linguistic Categorization (on the material of AmE new coinages) pp.22-30 in Slovo-Vyskazyvanie - Diskurs. Samara, 2004.

16. The Basics of Lexicology. Seminars and Tasks for Individual Studies for Students of Translation in the Sphere of Professional Communication. (compiled by Gouralnik T. with M.Bondarenko). Samara, 2005. 17 p.

*: Pimakhina T.A is the maiden name of Gouralnik T.A.