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English for Academics
Book 1.
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bogolepova S., Bezzabotnova O., Gorbachev V., Groza O., Ivanova A., Kuzmina T., Kuznetsova L., Oschepkova T., Pervukhina I., Shadrova E., Shelenkova I., Suchkova S.
Leading author: R. Bolitho
English for Academics is a communication skills course for academics who need to work and socialise in English. Aimed at B1 level and above, this two part series practises using English in a range of situations, from making small talk at a conference to giving a presentation, from reading a range of academic texts to writing academic correspondence, abstracts and summaries. The academic vocabulary lists in the books provide a comprehensive list of key words and the free online audio supports the development of listening and speaking skills. The audio is available at cambridge.org/englishforacademics together with a free practical Teacher's Guide for the series.
Салихова А. А., Polikanova I., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 14: Психология 2026 Т. 49 № 3 С. 9–34
Background. An adaptive attitude toward uncertainty may facilitate goals achievement, however, there is a lack of scientific research on this issue among extreme sport athletes. Sports tourism (ST) is a promising area for investigation of the psychological mechanisms underlying adaptation to extreme stressful environments. Objective. The goal is to establish the connection between tolerance for uncertainty, route experience, autonomy skills, and ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
Added: June 2, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
Added: September 26, 2025
Melville A. Y., Каберник В. В., Mironyuk M. et al., / МГИМО МИД России. 2024.
Данный аналитический доклад является одним из результатов исследований в рамках консорциума НИУ ВШЭ и МГИМО. В нем прежде всего раскрыты вопросы концептуализации национальной мощи и сопутствующих категорий и дается обзор прецедентов. Далее рассматриваются вопросы операционализации предлагаемых нами компонентов национальной мощи. В следующих разделах доклада предлагается анализ вопросов методологии, используемой в докладе. На этой основе предложен ...
Added: September 19, 2025
Maltseva V., Nikitin M., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2025 Т. 69 № 5 С. 121–131
The paper explores the changing demand for skills and qualifications under the influence of technological progress and the implementation of artificial intelligence. The research issue is examined in three dimensions: the structure of skills in the labour market, the returns to education, and the demand for specific skills and competences. A systematic analysis of 125 ...
Added: February 26, 2025
Antipkina I., Ivanov A., Guzhelya D., / Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2024.
This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample ...
Added: February 21, 2025
Aitzhanov S., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2024. No. 116.
This study focuses on examining the role of language as an attribute in the construction of ethnicity within the Korean community in Kazakhstan. The research examines how language functions as an attribute in the categorization and identification processes, and how it interacts with other ethnic attributes such as descent and appearance. Drawing on qualitative methods, ...
Added: December 10, 2024
Микаелян А. Л., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Literary Studies". 2024. No. 28.
The article presents an attempt to examine Goethe's poem "Reineke Fox" in connection with the discussion between Goethe and Schiller about the nature of epic poetry and the principles of its renewal within the poetics of "Weimar Classicism". Goethe introduced into his interpretation of the medieval story of the Fox a number of innovations at various ...
Added: November 19, 2024
Remnev N., Obiedkov S., Rakhilina E. V. et al., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2023.
Grammatical error correction is one of the fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing. For the Russian language, most of the spellcheckers available correct typos and other simple errors with high accuracy, but often fail when faced with non-native (L2) writing, since the latter contains errors that are not typical for native speakers. In this paper, ...
Added: October 30, 2024
Orekhov B., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2024.
In this paper, I apply linguistic methods of analysis to non-linguistic data, chess plays, metaphorically equating one with the other and seeking analogies. Chess game notations are also a kind of text, and one can consider the records of moves or positions of pieces as words and statements in a certain language. In this article ...
Added: August 8, 2024
Sorokin P., Maltseva V., Форсайт 2024 Т. 18 № 1 С. 6–17
The study aims to empirically demonstrate and conceptually interpret the manifestations of an emerging approach to the issues of human capital, its measurement and development on the international academic, expert, and corporate agenda. We document a gradual shift from a focus on individual skills, their measurement and development, to an approach that considers the complexity ...
Added: January 29, 2024
Ilyin A., Закон 2023 № 1 С. 15–22
The higher legal education is undergoing permanent reforms to adjust it to the needs of the day, to make it accessible to those who do not want to work as a lawyer in the future. Can this be done in such a way that legal education after such a reform would still allow legal work ...
Added: February 2, 2023
Volgin A., Gimpelson V. E., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2022 Т. 26 № 3 С. 343–374
Ultimate essence of the human capital is in what workers know and what they are able
to do, or in their productive skills. This study explores demand for various occupational and
social skills in the Russian economy. Job structure and demand for skills posted by employers
reflect technological level of the economy and its structure. However, the structure ...
Added: November 5, 2022
Akhmedjanova D., Akhmedova F., , in: International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times.: Routledge, 2022. Ch. 11 P. 130–140.
This chapter describes teaching the AE module online at the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Online teaching experiences in AE are examined with the help of the Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework. The examination of online teaching revealed that AE lecturers used evidence-based practices of genre, discourse, and ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Akhmedjanova D., Writing and Pedagogy 2022 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 129–150
This reflection focuses on teaching writing online for the first-year students in the Academic English course at the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), Uzbekistan. Academic English is a core course for all incoming first-year students and aims to develop students’ proficiency in listening, reading, and writing skills. A great emphasis is placed on the ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Shchemeleva I., Smirnova N. V., , in: International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times.: Routledge, 2022. Ch. 19 P. 232–244.
Added: August 13, 2022
Routledge, 2022.
This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching, research, and development in challenging circumstances. Through original first-hand experiences from around the world, the collection reveals how educators in higher education have responded to the specific needs and challenges of teaching second language learners in turbulent times, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organised thematically, ...
Added: August 13, 2022
Avdoshin S. M., Pesotskaya E. Y., Kuruppuge D.M., Программная инженерия 2022 Vol. 13 No. 6 P. 277–285
In the contemporary digital age the majority of industries become very much software dependent, require automation, digitization, and deployment of new technologies. The need for specialists, skilled in software engineering, is in high demand. In this study, we set out to investigate what challenges may arise in IT students skill sets and new competences in ...
Added: June 23, 2022
Antonova M., Bakulev A., М.: Флинта, 2022.
The coursebook is designed to assist students in gaining, practicing, and mastering academic English written and oral skills. Special focus is placed on teaching research writing in such fields and applied mathematics, computer science and engineering. Students are trained to write proposals of their senior theses and research articles. The book also covers research presentation and discussion ...
Added: January 12, 2022
Sabelnikova E. V., Психологическая наука и образование 2021 Т. 26 № 2 С. 78–89
The article presents the history of the development of competence assessment from the XX century till now. On the basis of the completed study the author developed the periodisation of national and international research projects in order to systematize various projects and highlight the stages of their development. The main focus of most projects is ...
Added: May 27, 2021