Залалтдинова Лия Илгизеровна

Before joining Harvard in 2022, Liya taught Russian at Oberlin College (as a Fulbright TA), at the University of Pittsburgh, Williams College, and at the University of Colorado. She also taught English courses at the Kazan National Research Technical University in Russia. During her five years at SUNY, Liya developed and taught both undergraduate and graduate content and language teaching methods courses for the TESOL program.  

Liya Zalaltdinova’s research interests focus on Second Language Acquisition and pragmatic competence, in particular on modality as a reflection of pragmatic competence, development of pragmatic competence and strategies for teaching pragmatic competence.

Liya is а passionate quilter, and was a member of the Union of Arts of Tatarstan and of Russia from 2007 to 2011.

Education:

Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, State University of New York at Albany, 2019

M.A. in Theory and Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures, Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod, 2008