Olga Filatova

Olga Filatova has taught English as a second language for over 10 years in the USA, Great Britain, Turkey and Russia. She has a doctorate (Ph.D.) in education from the Moscow Academy of Science based on research conducted in Chicago, IL. She has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Secondary Education with a teaching major in TESOL. She believes in a student-centered, project-based communicative approach to teaching that uses students' personal and cultural experience to motivate their learning. Her research interests lie in the area of social and academic adaptation of international students to new cultural environments. She is also interested in student-centered and flipped classroom activities. She currently serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics.

Selected Authored Publications:

1. Teaching Practical Grammar in Foreign Language Studies in It Works For Me Flipping the Classroom by Blythe Hal, Sweet Charlie and Carpenter Rusty; New Forums Press, 2015, pp. 64-65. 2. Cultural Attributes of Students to Make Student-Centered Approach Successful. International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics. Vo.1, No.1, 2015, pp.20-24. 3. The Best of Both Worlds: What can native and non-native speaking language teachers learn from each other? English Teacher Professional. No 92, 2014. 4. Culture’s shock impact on ESL Acquisition. Ohio TESOL Journal. Vo. 4, No. 1, 2011, pp. 24-27. 5. Recommendations to organization of main educational activities at junior college. Kazan: Alfa, 2005. 6. The role of Liberal Arts in developing social and cultural adaptation to the dynamics of a market economy in Russia. Scientific research of Kazan Social-Humanitarian College. Kazan: Alfa, 200, pp. 1-16.7. Developing students’ communication skills during English lessons. A foreign language and methods of teaching it. Materials of state scientific seminar. Kazan: Kazan State University, 2002, pp. 27-30. 8. A teacher’s role in helping students to form moral values under conditions of social and cultural change. Scientific research of Kazan Institute of Social Science and Humanities. Book 1. Kazan, 2000, pp.15-19.

Selected Presentations:

1. The Usage of Wordle.net. Computer-Aided Language Learning Interest Section Electronic Village Technology Fairs at TESOL 2015 Convention and English Language Expo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 27, 2015.2. Cultural Attributes of Students to Make Student-Center