Resume

Luiza Gazizova

2702 N Wyoming St.

Arlington, Virginia 22213

Telephone: (703) 241-0150

E-mail: luizagazizova@yahoo.com

Education:

George Washington University (Washington, DC, USA)    2003 - 2004

Fellow of the Junior Faculty Development Program

• Attended classes:

- Introduction to American Studies

- Religion in the United States

- US Media and Cultural History

- Method and Scope in American Studies

- Women’s studies

- US Urban History

- Immigration, Ethnicity and American Experience

- Language in Culture and Society

• Conduct research and design courses in American History and Culture, Cross-Cultural Communication, International Education

Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute (Ufa, Russia)     June 1999

PhD in Linguistics “10. 02. 04 Germanic languages”

• Researched semantics of English prepositions

• Completed comparative analysis of semantics of English and Russian prepositions

• Researched semantic similarities and differences of the linguistic categorization of the space

Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute (Ufa, Russia)    June 1994

Diploma of “Teacher of the English and French Languages”

Employment:

High School “School without Walls” (Washington, DC)   January 2004 - present

Intern as a teaching assistant at the class of African-American History

• Participate in the class discussion

• Give lecture notes

• Confirm site-visits and guest-lecturers

Bashkir State Pedagogical University (Ufa, Russia)     1999-2003

Associate Professor of Department of the English language 

• Taught subjects: English language: development of oral and written skills (I-V high school students), Linguistics (lectures and discussion classes for I, II year students), Theory and Practice of Translation (for III-year students), Contrasting Typology (for V year students)

• Designed courses: Linguistics, Contrasting Typology of Russian and English languages

• Prepared materials and designed final exam tests

Bashkir State Pedagogical University (Ufa, Russia)    1994 - 1996

Lecturer at the Department of the English language

• Taught subjects: English Language: Development of oral and written skills

The English Language Center (Ufa, Russia)

• Taught Communicative English to adult students

Honors/Awards:

Scholarship of President of Bashkortostan (Russia), 1997

Professional Societies:

• Membership in the  American-Bashkir Friendship Club for teachers of English.

• Membership in the scientific group under supervision of Pr. Shabanova. This group analyzes semantics in distantly related languages, researches the relationship between culture and language semantics, conducts research on universal and language —specific regularities of conceptualizing space in semantics of spatial prepositions. The group was awarded a grant from Michigan University, USA, 2000.

Recent Publications:

• "Manual on Theory of Translation for Correspondence Students," Ufa, Russia April 2003.

• "Teaching Aid on the Audio-Novel 'Rebecca'," Ufa, Russia, June 2002.

• "Semantics of Spatial Prepositions in the Russian and English Languages," Ufa, Russia, October 2001.

• "In Search of Cross-Linguistic Regularities of Conceptualizing Space: Evidence from Several Slavic, Germanic and Turkic Languages,” Poznan, Russia, September 2000.

(Overall 12 publications)

Skills:

Speak fluent English

Intermediate level of French

Work well with Microsoft Windows Operating System, Internet and E-mail software

Developed Leadership, teamwork and communications skills

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