Education
SpecialtyRomano-Germanic languages and Literature QualificationGermanist, Teacher of English language and literature (Leningrad State University, 1979)
Professional development
- English Teaching and Translation. Department of coaching, master-classes and post-graduate education within the International Non-profit Partnership Creative Society "Petrojazz festival", Lithuania
- Labour protection of pedagogical workers of educational institutions (SPbGASU, 2017, 40 hours)
- Modern pedagogical technologies for teaching a foreign language in higher education (SPbGASU, 2018, 32 hours)
- Foreign language and Russian as a foreign language: theory and methods of teaching in a non-linguistic university (SPbGASU, 2022, 36 hours)
Teaching
- English
Professional interests
- Methods of foreign languages teaching;
- Compiling textbooks and anthologies for reading in a foreign language
- Teaching reading and analyzing the author's text
- Supervision of the Scientific Psychological and Pedagogical School "Chir-Sreda"
- Publication of the collective monograph "Innovative educational space: theory and practice of teaching foreign languages and Russian as a foreign language in higher education"
- Developing the chir-sreda.ru website
Research interests
- Non-verbal means of communication
- Theory and practice of professional and intercultural communication
- Altera lingua - the language of works of art
- Innovative teaching methods
- Non-verbal ways of communication
- The impact of movement on learning
- Types of thinking (clip, conceptual, extended, visual)
- TED conferences
- Infographics, visualization
- Digitalization of educational activities
- Principles of creating textbooks and study guides
Scientific conferences
Professor Chirkova has participated in more than 60 scientific conferences, including international:- Saimaa's calling (Finland);
- International round table "From the knowledge of the language - to the knowledge of the world" (SPbGASU, Chir Wednesday);
- "Pedagogical Parallels" (SPbGASU);
- International Conference on Education, Sociology and Humanities (Iceland);
- 11th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (Palma, Spain, 2019);
- International scientific and practical conference "Educational space in the information age 2019".
- 11th International Scientific and Theoretical Conference "Communicative strategies of Information Society" (CSIS’19).
- Annual participation as a moderator at the international scientific and practical conferences "From Traditions to Innovations in Teaching Foreign Languages", held at the SPbGASU Department of Foreign Languages.