Place of Birth

Penza Oblast, Russian Federation

Academic Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Romance Languages, Penza State University (2004 – present)

Assistant Professor, Department of German and French, Penza State University (2002 – 2004)

Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Belinsky Penza State University for Teacher Education (2002 – 2003)

Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, Belinsky Penza State University for Teacher Education (2000 – 2002)

Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Penza State Agrarian Academy (1998 – 2000)

Education

Specialist Degree in Teaching German and English, Belinsky Penza State Institute for Teacher Education (1994)

Training Programs

Theory and Methods of Teaching Latin, Academy of Contemporary Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia, 2019)

Teaching People with Disabilities, Penza State University (2017)

Learning Management Systems in Higher Education, Penza State University (2017)

Advanced Course of German (C 2), Institute for Interlingual Mediation and International Cultural Exchange (Bonn, Germany, 2008, 2009).

Quality Management in Education, Penza State University (2010)

Methods of Translation Teaching, St. Petersburg State University, (2006-2007)

Publications

Aleksandr Usyaev has written articles on foreign language teaching and translation problems.

For more information about his publications, see the eLibrary website:

https://elibrary.ru/author_items.asp?authorid=667951&pubrole=100&show_refs=1&show_option=0   

Research Interests

Teaching foreign languages, translation and interpretation at university; issues related to translation and interpretation

Languages

Russian (native), German, English, Latin