Staff Profile: Dr Irina Moore

Summary

Irina Moore, received a BA Honours in Russian Language and Literature from Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania, and a PhD in Psycholinguistics from Moscow State Regional University. Before coming to Wolverhampton University, she taught Russian at Vilnius Pedagogical University and in the West Midlands at Keele University. Irina currently teaches undergraduate modules in Structural Linguistics, Language and the Mind, EFL Advanced and Russian. She is also an external member of the Post – Graduate Progression Board at the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing at the University of Wolverhampton. Her research interests are centred on comparative psycholinguistics, theory of translation and language teaching methodology.

Qualifications

• PhD Psycholinguistics, Moscow State Regional University, 2010
• Certificate (with distinction) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Trinity College, London, 2001
• BA (Hons 1st), Vilnius Pedagogical University, 1981

Current Subjects Lectured

Main teaching areas: structural linguistics (syntax and morphology), psycholinguistics, EFL Advanced, WLP Russian

Module leader of 5LN004 Structural Linguistics 2, 6LN004 Structural Linguistics 3, 6LN005 Language and the Mind, 5WL001 Basic Language (Russian)

Other University Activities

An external member of the Post – Graduate Progression Board at the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing based at the University of Wolverhampton.

Publications

• Collins Russian Dictionary, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994.
• ‘Native Language Interference when Learning Russian ab-initio’, in Lingvistiniai ir Metodiniai Negimtosios Kalbos Destymo ir Mokymosi Klausimai, Vilnius Pedagogical University Press, 1994, SL 605, pp.37-48.
• ‘Some Linguistic Difficulties which May Be Encountered by Students Learning Russian Verbs’, in Russian Language Learning: Past, Present and Future, University of Portsmouth, 1995, pp. 73-79.
• ‘Experiential Language Learning as Cooperative Learning’, in Education in Century 21: New Forms of Teaching Modern Languages, Tyumen University Press, 2001, pp.53-54.
• ‘Modern Lexical Borrowings in the Russian Language: Types and Reasons for Borrowings’, in Полифония в Культуре, текстк и языке, Kaunas, Vytauto Didziojo Universitetas, 2002, pp.255-263.
• ‘The Impact of Media Explosion on the Russian language’, Journal of Philology, Russian Academy of Science, N.1 (10), 2002, pp.36-41.
• ‘Word Association Methodology and its Application in the West: Historical Overview’, in Language and Culture, Moscow Academy of Science, 2005, pp.81-82.
• ‘Creating teaching materials for a new Russian course book for English speaking adult learners, in International Co-operation: University and Region, Tyumen University Press, 2006, pp.198-199.
• ‘Psycholinguistic Aspects of Written Language Processing: Eye Movement in Reading’, in Вестник, Journal of  Linguistics, Moscow State Regional University Press, 2007, pp.49-60.
• ‘Interactional Sociolinguistics in Great Britain as an Integral Part of Cultural Research in Language’, in  Язык и Межкультурные Коммуникации, Minsk-Vilnius Pedagogical University Press, 2011, pp.17-18.
• ‘Differences in the Interpretation of the Concept of “Psycholinguistics” within the Russian and English Research Traditions and the Position of Linguistic Ethnography in British Applied Linguistics’, in Kalba ir Kontekstai, IV (1), Vilnius Pedagogical University Press, 2011, pp.141-153.
• ‘Основные Направления Исследований в Британской Психолингвистике конца ХХ – начала ХХI века’ (Main Research Trends in British Psycholinguistics, late XX – early XXI century), Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011, 205 pp.

Other Publications

• ‘Methodological Materials for a Practical Russian Course for Non-native Speakers’, Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, 1987, 30 pp.
• (with Tom Dickins) S Azov (Russian from Scratch), University of Wolverhampton, 2004 A4, comb-bound: 536 pp. Available at http://www.gefix.net/sazov/

Monographs

• Collins Russian Dictionary (collaborative author), HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994.
• ‘Основные Направления Исследований в Британской Психолингвистике конца ХХ – начала ХХI века’ (Main Research Trends in British Psycholinguistics, late XX – early XXI century), Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011, 205 pp.

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