Kharkovskaia Antonina Alexandrovna
Professor, Candidate of Philology, Head of the English Department of Samara State University
e-mail: aax2009@mail.ru

Prof. Antonina Kharkovskaia is also performing her duties as an editor-in-chief and an opponent of post-graduate research projects in Philology and special linguistic and teaching methods papers. Professor A. Kharkovskaia is also a member of The Presidium of Russian University Philologists' Union.

 

Education File:
Х In 1964 graduated from Kuibyshev State Teachers' Training Institute Named after V.V.Kuibyshev (at present Samara State Teachers' Training Academy)
Х In 1973 defended her Candidate thesis after the completion of the full-time post-graduate course of studies at Moscow State Teachers' Training Institute named after V.I. Lenin (at present Moscow State Teachers' Training University). Her research supervisor was Prof. E.B. Cherkasskaia)

Antonina Khrakovskaia systematically tried to improve her professional competence attending summer language courses in Cambridge and Oxford, TASIS seminars in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, in Brugge (Belgium), Glasgo (Scotland), in Budapest (Hungary), etc.


PROFESSIONAL & RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Prof. A. Kharkovskaia's research interests are concentrated in both sociolinguistic and pragmalinguistic discourse studies. She is also engaged in the studies of gender markers in English and in the problems dealing with translation. Her list of published papers includes over 200 titles.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Х lecture courses in stylistics and British civilization;
Х special courses "Communicative Strategies in Intercultural Business Space", " Speech Etiquette Problems in the English -Speaking Intercultural Communication" English Language Studies and Workshops in Analytical / Home Reading;
Х Research Supervision (students and post-graduate students); preparation of curricula schedules and teaching materials for the students majoring in English Philology.