An ESL teacher and learning designer, since 2001.

I began teaching English in 2001 and spent seventeen years at two universities, including training future language teachers. Since 2023, my work has focused on adult learners in the United States: English for work, everyday life, and citizenship interviews.

I began teaching in 2001 at the Baltic University of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Cooperation in St. Petersburg, and from 2003 I was on the faculty of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic (Associate Professor from 2007) — teaching theoretical grammar, methodology, stylistics, the history of the English language, and British history & culture, and training the next generation of English teachers. Alongside the teaching came thirty-plus academic publications, eight years co-running a Moodle LMS, faculty-development workshops on ICT integration (2011–2017), and the St. Petersburg Government Prize for scientific and pedagogical achievement (2010).

My interest in technology grew out of a teaching question: how can practice between classes become part of a coherent learning process? That question shaped my 2006 doctoral research and later work with a Moodle learning platform. Documenting my teaching principles now helps me use AI for preparation while keeping the pedagogical decisions explicit.

Today I teach individually, in pairs, and in small groups. I also develop ESL_Master to connect lesson goals, spaced review, and evidence of progress. I choose the content, review the generated materials, and adapt the work to the learner.