Academic collaboration
The department cooperates with American and Turkish universities.
Professor Charles Carlson from the USA conducts online classes on the American culture and traditions.
G. Stepichev, winner of the Moscow Teacher of the Year 2012 award, makes presentations and moderates roundtables for English language teachers.
The department supervises several educational colleges in other cities of the Republic of Tatarstan, provides gudance and scientific expertise for local educators.
Professor Reima Al-Jarf, of King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, teaches English and Arabic as a foreign language and Saudi culture to Kazan Federal University (KFU) graduate and undergraduate students, foreign language teaching methods to prospective English language teachers, and supervises a joint research project with KFU faculty. She shares her knowledge and expertise in research, teaching English and Arabic in different countries.
Visiting scholar Prof. Al-Jarf is a graduate of the University of Iowa, USA, is an international consultant, researcher, presenter, reviewer and inspiring teacher. She has taught EFL, ESP and Translation courses to graduate and undergraduate students in Saudi Arabia for 26 years and won three Excellence in Teaching Awards and the Best Faculty Website Award over 6000 faculty members.
Prof. Al-Jarf has 250 publications, some of which were award-winning, and some were published in ISI journals. Her publications have been cited 789 times on Google scholar, have received 57,066 reads on Researchgate and 27,360 total views (top .5%) on Academia.
She has given 350 conference presentations and conducted 50 workshops in 70 countries. She was a keynote and invited speaker at conferences in France, Korea, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia. Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
Furthermore, Prof. Al-Jarf reviews articles for numerous international peer-reviewed journals including some ISI journals, evaluates faculty promotion publications, grant proposals, conference papers, textbooks and translated books for numerous institutions worldwide.