Скопинцева Татьяна Сергеевна
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Tatiana Skopintseva graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University (former Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages; http://www.linguanet.ru/). She earned her PhD (“kandidat nauk”) and an Assistant Professor (“docent”) degrees from the Department of English Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Applied Sciences (Dissertation “Variation of English Intonation on the British Isles”), where she taught English phonetics at practical courses and seminars for TEFL undergraduates and graduates, practical courses for students of other majors (economists, lawyers, political analysts), teacher development courses.
In 2008 she joined New Economic School (www.nes.ru) where she has taught Business English, Strategic Business Communication Skills, English for Effective International Communication, Written and Oral Communication in English for upper-intermediate and advanced students. Tatiana has designed a pronunciation course Well Pronounced for NES MA students, which she accounted for at the 47th Annual International IATEFL conference, Liverpool, in her talk called “Teaching Pronunciation to Russian Learners as Part of Rhetorical Competence”.
Tatiana is also an IREX 1997 scholar exchange program alumna (UPenn, supervisor W.Labov).
She has authored and co-authored articles, textbooks and conference publications devoted to speech culture in English, dialectology and sociolinguistics, including MSLU textbooks English Phonetics for Communication, Mastering your English Pronunciation.
Currently Tatiana is Head of the English Department at NES and a consultant at the NES Writing and Communication Center conducting one-on-one consultations and workshops on English pronunciation (http://www.nes.ru/en/people/students/resources/wcc/staff).
Fields of professional interest: phonetics and phonology of prepared discourse, sociolinguistics and dialectology.
Teaching specialization: diction, enunciation, fluency, Russian accent reduction, pronunciation for public speaking, oral presentation skills.
Professional membership: TESOL, IATEFL (since 1997), IPA (1997-2000).