Olga Nozdracheva is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests focus on second language acquisition, starting from the methodological aspects (how to teach?) and ending with cognitive ones (how do we acquire languages?). Though the current object of her research is the Russian language, she is also interested in pragmatics, corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics applied to second language acquisition. Her working experience includes 2.5 years of teaching Russian as a second language at the university level and developing educational content: she is a co-author of the textbook on listening “Kanikuly FM” (Rus.: “Каникулы FM”; Vyazovikina, O.V. et al.) and a co-author of Ru. Podcast: Podcasts in Russian for A1-A2 (together with Christina Surovtseva).

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Fields of interest

• Second Language Acquisition
• Russian as a Second Language
• Pragmatics
• Corpus linguistics

Research

My research project, “Learning Russian as a second language through allusive (precedential) phrases: corpus-based study”, focuses on specific types of allusions used by Russian native speakers: references to classical Russian literature. These allusions are tricky for non-native speakers, requiring advanced pragmatic skills to decode the hidden meaning. For my research, I am analysing 1) how native speakers use the allusion, 2) what type of discourse allusions are frequently used, and 3) how we can implement the allusions to teach Russian.

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