Yudina Galina Sergeevna

Candidate of Philological Sciences, associate professor. Author of 50 books and more than 30 scholarly and methodological articles. Her books have been published not only in Russia but also abroad (in Italy, Poland, Finland and elsewhere). In the 1990s she worked as a presenter on the programmes of the educational department of Leningrad Television. She took part in the making of 20 documentary films of Russian, Finnish and Swedish production as a consultant, scriptwriter and director, and worked as scriptwriter and director on the eight-part documentary "The Path to the Profession. A Teacher of Russian as a Foreign Language" (available on the website of the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute). She has repeatedly given lectures and run themed events within programmes for learners of Russian as a foreign language organised by the governments of Moscow and Saint Petersburg and by the Russkiy Mir Foundation, and has lectured in a number of foreign countries (Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Slovakia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland) and in the countries of the former USSR. Research interests (in the field of teaching Russian as a foreign language): the teaching of vocabulary and grammar, speaking, cultural studies and area studies, and the perception, comprehension and analysis of literary and journalistic texts, films and plays.