{"id":37,"date":"2018-10-16T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:04:20","slug":"about-the-instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/about-the-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"About the instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Veta Chitnev<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">Buchanan Tower 903<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">Tel: 604-827-5541<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">E-mail: veta.chitnev@ubc.ca<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">Ph.D., University of Victoria<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">Certified Tester of Russian as a Foreign Language, Moscow State University<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">M.A., Simon Fraser University<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6.0pt 0in;\">M.Ed., Moscow State Regional University<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"info-wrapper\">\n<p>Dr. Veta Chitnev has been teaching with CENES since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>She teaches Russian language and culture courses and coordinates all sections of Russian language courses. Veta is also responsible for student placement tests and Russian proficiency examinations.<\/p>\n<p>Her areas of specialization are teaching Russian as a second language, pedagogy, and curriculum development and design. Her other interests include intercultural studies and educational psychology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assessment in higher education<\/li>\n<li>Feminist pedagogy<\/li>\n<li>Russian language<\/li>\n<li>Intercultural studies<\/li>\n<li>Leaning and instructional theories<\/li>\n<li>Motivation and social-emotional adjustment in educational settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor: Veta Chitnev Contact: Buchanan Tower 903 Tel: 604-827-5541 E-mail: veta.chitnev@ubc.ca &nbsp; Education: Ph.D., University of Victoria Certified Tester of Russian as a Foreign Language, Moscow State University M.A., Simon Fraser University M.Ed., Moscow State Regional University About Dr. Veta Chitnev has been teaching with CENES since 2008. She teaches Russian language and culture courses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/about-the-instructor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the instructor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40613,"featured_media":120,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/russcourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}