Ekaterina Talalakina

University Instructor, English language

Faculty of Education and Culture | Language Centre

Tampere University

ekaterina.talalakina [at] tuni.fi (ekaterina[dot]talalakina[at]tuni[dot]fi)

+358504130914

City Centre Campus

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4972-6035

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4wf7Zi4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

About me

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

Responsibilities

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)

Fields of expertise

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