Marina Grineva, Lecturer in Russian

Marina holds her M.Ed. in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning with the focus on foreign language instruction from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her Ph.D. in Philology from Nizhny Novgorod State Lobachevsky University. Her research interests are at the intersection of foreign language and culture pedagogy and educational technologies. Specifically, Marina is interested in the value of e-learning technologies in multicultural foreign language classrooms, the use of video technologies in teaching target culture, experiential learning in foreign language education and graduate student development.

Marina has experience teaching and developing curricula for all levels of Russian as a foreign language and Russian culture courses, including on-line and hybrid modes of delivery.  As a Russian language instructor, Marina has international experience in Russia, Canada, and China. She has taught at the Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University (Russia), Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), and Sichuan International Studies University (China).