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Kaljuga, Marika

Dr Marika Kalyuga is currently teaching Russian language and culture in European Languages and Cultures at Macquarie University. Dr Kalyuga has considerable experience in lecturing in Russian as a foreign language, Russian linguistics, Russian literature and culture at the tertiary level. Since 1979 she has taught Russian at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow State University, the Moscow Centre of Intensive Methods in Teaching Foreign Languages, Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales. She has designed a number of teaching programmes, textbooks and instructional packages. Her research interests are in cognitive linguistics, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive psychology, foreign language pedagogy, foreign language teacher education, and second language acquisition. Dr Kalyuga graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University and holds a PhD in linguistics. [Website Macquarie University November 2016]