Yusupova Kamilla

Kamilla Yusupova is an Assistant Professor at Democritus University of Thrace, specializing in “Description and comparison of Slavic languages with emphasis on Bulgarian and Russian.” She holds a degree in Russian Language and Literature from the Department of Slavic Philology of Tashkent State University and studied with a scholarship at the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy, and Psychology (pedagogical direction) at the University of Ioannina. She completed her postgraduate studies in Linguistics with a scholarship at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a PhD from the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture of the Black Sea Countries at Democritus University of Thrace. The subject of her doctoral dissertation is: “Analysis of translation errors by Greek-speaking students learning Russian as a foreign language: A proposal for a didactic intervention.”

She has published three monographs with the publishing house NEOHEL – Modern Greek and European Studies: Methods of teaching foreign languages and the use of translation in learning Russian (2021), Pedagogical translation in Russian philology: A proposal for a didactic intervention (2021), Learning Russian through translation: A handbook for students (2021).

Research interests: comparative linguistics, Slavonic studies, translation studies, acquisition and learning of Russian, Bulgarian and Greek as foreign languages, ICT in foreign language acquisition & teaching, certification of foreign language competence, cultural studies.