Liudmila I. Bahatsikava

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences

Docent of the English Language Department

EDUCATION     Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages

                             1975. Diploma in English and French

                             Kiev State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages

                             1990. Degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences

                             Moscow State Educational Committee

                             1992. Diploma of Docent of the English Language Department

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

                               Gomel State University, Gomel, Belarus

September 1994    Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of the English

till present             Language (Docent of the English Language Department)

Duties: lecturer of English Conversation, English Teaching Methodology, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cultural Studies and Cultural Linguistics; advising on preparation of diploma projects by the students and theses by the postgraduates

                              Belarusskiy State University of Transport, Gomel, Belarus

Duties: lecturer of English to postgraduates.

October 1993 -     Agricultural Institute, Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine

September 1994   Associate Professor of the Foreign and Ukrainian Languages Department  

Duties: lecturer of English  

Kamenets-Podolskiy pedagogical Insitute, Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine

Duties: lecturer of English, English Teaching Methodology and Comparative Linguistics

August 1982 -       Kamenets-Podolskiy military engineering school, Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine       

August 1993           Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department .

Duties: lecturer of English  

VISITING POSITIONS

                      A Course in English and American Studies organized by the British Council in                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

                              Cooperation with the United States Information Service of the American Embassy

                              and the Ministry of Education & Science, Belarus  

                              1996. Certificate of Achievement

                              2002-2003. Research and Professional Development as a Fulbright Visiting 

                              Scholar at English Language Institute of Eastern Washington University, WA, US    

RESEARCH AREAS

                         English Teaching Methodology, Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication,

                         Cultural Studies, Cultural Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics   

HONOURS AND AWARDS

                        Honorary Diploma for the Best Scientific paper, 1991

                        Honorary Award for Teaching Educational and Scientific Work and participation in the

                        University Activities, 2004

PUBLICATIONS

                        Teaching Regulation in Dialogue Discourse. - Moscow: Moscow State University, 1987.

                         On Managing Dialogue Intercourse. -  Moscow: Foreign Languages at School, 1988, #6    

                        The psycholinguistic fundamentals of teaching discussion. – Minsk, 1999.

                        The development of professional skills of students of the faculties of foreign languages.-

(Moguilyov, 1999

                        The Methodological Concept of Communicative Competence of Speech Interaction in

                         Discussion. – Minsk, 2002.

                        Handbook for the 4^th year students “Superstitions and Prejudices. The Unexplained

                         Phenomena”. – Gomel, 2003.

                        Cultural Pragmatic Transfer in Cross-cultural Communication. – Białystok, 2005.

                        On the Problem of Development of Cultural Linguistic Intuition. - Moscow: Foreign

                         Languages at School, 2007, #3. 

                         The Psychological Nature of Cultural Linguistic Intuition. – Vestnik of Minsk State

                         Linguistic University. - Minsk, 2009, # 1 (15).

                               Etc.

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

                         Tourism, music, theatre, reading, photography, knitting, pot flowers, art.