Ekaterina Talalakina

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses primarily related to English for Academic Purposes. My professional interests include EAP, TESOL, CALL, vocabulary studies, assessment practices. 

Courses taught:

• Foundations of Professional and Academic Communication in English (Bachelor's students)
• Multilingual Introduction to Academic Language and Communication (Bachelor's students)
• Academic Writing B (Bachelor's students)
• Thesis Writing B (Bachelor's and Master's students)
• Thesis Clinic (Bachelor's and Master's students)

• PhD in Education (2008), Certified oral proficiency tester (2014)
• Author of research articles on foreign language pedagogy, vocabulary studies, international e-tandems, as well as textbooks involving academic argumentation 

Launonen, P., Talalakina, E., & Dubova, G. (2024). Students' Perceptions of Using ChatGPT for Academic Writing in English: Insights from a Finnish University. Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 9(1), 219-249. Open access

Kamrotov, M., Talalakina, E., & Stukal, D. (2022). Technical vocabulary in languages for special purposes: The corpus-based Russian economics word list. Lingua, 273, 103326. Open access

Talalakina, E., Stukal, D., & Kamrotov, M. (2020). Developing and Validating an Academic Vocabulary List in Russian: A Computational Approach. The Modern Language Journal, 104(3), 618-646.

Talalakina, E., Brown, T., & Kamrotov, M. (2019). Lexical Profile of L2 Russian Textbooks. Russian Language Journal, 69(1), 10. Open access

Bown, J., Smith, L. C., & Talalakina, E. V. (2019). The Effects of an EFL and L2 Russian Teletandem Class: Student Perceptions of Oral Proficiency Gains. Journal of Language and Education, 5(3), 35-55. Open access

Talalakina, E. V., & Stukal, D. K. (2016). Incorporating academic skills into EFL curriculum: Teacher agency in response to global mobility challenges. In Teacher agency and policy response in English language teaching (pp. 120-132). Routledge.

Talalakina, E., Brown, T., Bown, J., & Eggington, W. (2014). Mastering English through global debate. Georgetown University Press.

Brown, T., Balykhina, T., Talalakina, E., Bown, J., & Kurilenko, V. (2014). Mastering Russian through global debate. Georgetown University Press.