Natalia Troufanova

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Bauman Moscow State Technical University

The article describes application of pedagogical modelling in designing professional development (PD) syllabus for Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) teachers working at Russian engineering universities. The authors consider meaningful factors defining professional requirements for LSP tertiary teachers and view the problems of LSP teachers’ prof...

The article focuses on crowdfunding as an effective method of raising money from a large number of people to finance student innovative projects. It shows that planning a crowdfunding campaign before launching it will help increase the chances of achieving the goal. The need for detailed market research and analysis of existing crowdfunding platfor...

The article describes application of pedagogical modelling in designing professional development (PD) syllabus for Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) teachers working at Russian engineering universities. The authors consider meaningful factors defining professional requirements for LSP tertiary teachers and view the problems of LSP teachers’ prof...

The article is an attempt to clarify the major problems confronting language advisers who teach business vocabulary to Russian ESP economics students. A wide range of issues contributes to these problems, including the structural, semantic, and systemic characteristics of economic term systems, the basic methods of word-formation, as well as discip...

The present paper examines key issues regarding the differences in structural and semantic characteristics of economic term systems in Business English and Russian, which pose major translation challenges and cause problems in intercultural professional communication. Difficulties in vocabulary acquisition caused by non-equivalence in Russian and E...