About me

Qualified teacher and teacher trainer, curriculum developer, former Cambridge examiner, editor, business language consultant, computer programmer

In addition to all my different job titles above, I am also the founder of Stanford Academies. I have partnered with some of the major English schools in Ukraine and have received a lot of benefit from these experiences – some of which I hope to share with you.

Presentations

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in ELT: Understanding AI & How to Use It. University of Tabuk. November 2023. Conducted a webinar. Presented, 15/11/2023. - PPT link

Teens: How to make them engaged. Linguist Ltd., June 2020. Conducted a webinar. Presented, 29/07/2020. - PPT link

Functional Language. Svitmov.ck, June 2019. Invited as Speaker. Presented, 06/01/2019.

Error Correction. Svitmov.ck, June 2019. Invited as Speaker. Presented, 06/01/2019.

Teaching Communicatively. Linguist Ltd., May 2019. Conducted a workshop on the communicative approach. Presented, 05/01/2019.

Teaching 121. SOVa - Studiya Osvity dlya Vykladachiv, February 2018. Conducted a workshop. Presented, 01/23/2019.

Communicative Language Teaching. Speak Up English School for Public School Teachers of English, October 2018. Invited as Plenary Speaker. Presented, 10/25/2018. - PPT link

Comparing and Contrasting how heritage and native Russian speakers use Fill Vowels in the Genitive Plural Case. Department of Languages & Literature at the University of Utah, December 2014. Invited as Speaker, Presented, 12/08/2014. - PPT link

Comparing and Contrasting how heritage and native Russian speakers use Fill Vowels in the Genitive Plural Case. Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah, December 2014. Invited as Speaker. Presented, 12/01/2014. - PPT link