Yana Proskurkina
Teaching Fellow, Course Organizer in Ukrainian

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Background
Yana Proskurkina is a Ukrainian Teaching Fellow, as well as the Course Organiser for Ukrainian.
She joined the Languages for All team in 2023. She has extensive experience in language teaching and curriculum development.
She holds a Master’s degree in Ukrainian Language and Literature. Prior to joining the Centre for Open Learning, Yana was a lecturer in Ukrainian / Russian languages at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv where she worked in a culturally diverse environment with international students.
Her thesis “The pre-professional training system of foreign applicants for study at medical universities” analyzed the structural content model of the pre-professional training of foreign applicants.
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Education. Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine
Master of Science in the Ukrainian language and literature. National Pedagogical Dragomanov university
Master of Science in the English language and literature and the Persian language and literature. Kyiv International University
Certificate in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The Pushkin State Russian language Institute. Moscow, Russia
Certificate in teaching Russian as a foreign language. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Moscow, Russia
Research summary
comparative research about content-based language teaching