Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Elena Filimonova teaches Russian language and translation at all levels of the undergraduate degree. She came to language teaching via theoretical linguistics, in which she continues to pursue her interests.
- Practical phonetics
- Advanced grammar
- Linguistic analysis of text
- Translation
- Varieties of modern Russian, in particular grammar of spoken, non-academic language
- Typology of relational marking
- Practical issues of L2-acquisition
- E-learning of languages.
In collaboration with the Language Centre, Elena developed a new interactive online learning resource for beginner and intermediate level students of Russian, with the particular aim of enhancing new vocabulary acquisition.
2017 «От слов и ум к высотам устремляется»: О формировании и расширении словарного запаса студентов с использованием ИНТЕРНЕТ-технологий.[Russian Language Centre 2017. Russian Outside Russia. The Challenges of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language Outside the Language Environment. Conference Proceedings. 2017. C. 335-340.]
Over the years she has been involved in various CIE projects on teaching Russian at the secondary level.
Filimonova, Elena (ed.) Clusivity: Typology and case studies of the inclusive–exclusive distinction [Typological Studies in Language 63], 2005
She is one of the developers of The Universals Archive (University Konstanz, Germany).