Who is Ksenia Zolotareva?

I graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Voronezh State University as a philologist and teacher of Philology in 2003, receiving a diploma with honors. From 2003 to 2007 I studied at postgraduate school and in 2007 I defended my PhD thesis and received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences, which is the equivalent to the doctoral degree in Estonia. During my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I did an internship at the University of Tartu (Estonia), Department of Russian and Slavic Philology. 

I have been teaching Russian as a foreign language at Multilingua since 2013. I work with all levels, individual learners and with groups. My students are people from different professions, ages and interests and from different countries. Teaching high level students is often a challenge, because I must search for information and understand specific topics of interest of the student. 

I am constantly improving my qualifications through various courses, seminars and conferences, and I participate in the Erasmus+ program, which allows me to get new knowledge and communicate with colleagues from different countries. In 2019, I took part in seminar-training ‘Psychodramaturgical approach in teaching foreign languages’ (40 hours in total), which determined my current interests. I find it very interesting and productive to integrate the methods of psychodrama, drama in education, and role-playing into the process of teaching foreign languages.  I also think it is important to have an individual approach, sensitivity to the needs of the students, partnership: we define our goals and objectives and move towards them together, the teacher’s role is to be a guide who knows the way, not a mentor.