Focus on Language Education and Research is an international forum for both invited and contributed peer reviewed articles that advance language education at all levels and current issues and challenges for research educational practice in the teaching, learning, and assessment.

The journal publishes a broad range of papers covering best teaching practices, experimental results, contemporary teaching issues.
The journal is directed to those concerned with the functioning of language education, including universities, graduate and professional schools. It is of primary interest to institutional researchers and planners, faculty, college and university administrators.
Types of content:

Relationships Between Policy, Theory and Practice

Pedagogical Practices in Classrooms and Less Formal Settings

English Learning & Teaching in All Phases: from Young Learners to Higher and Adult Education

Language Teaching Policy & Practice in Russia

Classroom Practice in All Its Aspects

Classroom-Based Research

Methodological Issues in Practice and Research

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

New Technologies in ELT

In addition to original research articles, the journal publishes case studies and reviews of books, media, software, and other relevant products.

The Journal is published electronically at the elpub.ru platform.

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Editorial Board - Russia

Svetlana G. Ter-Minasova

Editor-in-Chief

Professor
Faculty of Modern Languages and Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, (Moscow, Russia)

e-mail:

president@ffl.msu.ru

Viktoria V. Levchenko

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Professor, Modern Languages and Professional Communication Department, Samara University, (Samara, Russia)

e-mail:

levchenko_v2004@mail.ru

Irina N. Rozina

Co-Editor

Professor, Department of Information Technologies, Institute of Management, Business and Law (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

e-mail:

rozina.irina@gmail.com

Natalia Frolova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Languages, National Research University Higher School of Economics - Nizhny Novgorod, (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
OrcID: 0000-0002-3438-2962
Scopus AuthorID: 56027854400

e-mail:

frolovanh@gmail.com

Anastasia Khodakova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English Philology, Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, (Tula, Russia)
OrcID ID: 0000-0001-7226-9007

e-mail:

anastasiakhodakova@gmail.com

Elena Kirillina

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign languages for Technical and Natural sciences, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, (Yakutsk,Russia)

e-mail:

mercedec@mail.ru

Yevgueny Kolyadin

Board Member

PhD, Regional Public Professional Organization ‘Yamalia English Language Teachers’ Association’, (Gubkinsky, Russia)

e-mail:

eugene.kolyadin@gmail.com

Ludmila Kozhevnikova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Professional Communication Department, Samara University, (Samara, Russia)

e-mail:

laksvet@mail.ru

Larisa Kuzmina

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English for International Relations Faculty, Voronezh State University, (Voronezh, Russia)

e-mail:

kuzminahome@mail.ru

Tatyana Makarova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anglistics Studies and Cross-Cultural Communication, Moscow State Pedagogical University, (Moscow, Russia)

e-mail:

t.s.makarova@yandex.ru

Tatyana Margaryan

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Linguistics Department at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, (Moscow, Russia)

e-mail:

sunnymood77@hotmail.com

Olga Mironova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Theory and Practice of Modern Languages and Linguodidactics Department, Minin University, (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
ORCID ID: J-8512-2017
SCOPUS ID: 27350

e-mail:

mironovaolga836@gmail.com

Elena Nadtocheva

Board Member

Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Languages, Ural State Pedagogical University, (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

e-mail:

elenanadtocheva@yandex.ru

Aida Rodomanchenko

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, (Moscow, Russia)

e-mail:

a.rodomanchenko@gmail.com

Svetlana Reztsova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication, State University of Humanities and Social Studies, (Kolomna, Russia0

e-mail:

svetareztsova@rambler.ru

Svetlana Sannikova

Board Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages South-Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

e-mail:

svetlana_chspu@mail.ru

Marina Solnyshkina

Board Member

Professor, Department of German Philology, Kazan University, (Kazan, Russia)
ОrcID ID 0000-0003-1885-3039
Scopus ID 56429529500

e-mail:

mesoln@yandex.ru

Svetlana Suchkova

Board Member

PhD, Development of Academic Competences Unit, National Research University Higher School of Economics, (Moscow, Russia)
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-4063-8661
ResearcherID: D-4832-2014
Scopus AuthorID: 57194189233

e-mail:

s.suchkova@gmail.com

Editorial Board International

Debra Johnson Abrams

Board Member

Doctor of Arts (DA) in English and Education, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Institute for Language Education and Research, Seoul, Republic of Korea
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-4802-8219

e-mail:

partsofspeechec@gmail.com

Lawrence Berlin

Board Member

PhD, School for the Advancement of English Language and Learning (SAELL) - Intensive English Program, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-7183-9423
Scopus ID: 35942134700

e-mail:

lnberlin@neiu.edu

Liu Bing

Board Member

PhD, College Of Foreign Languages, TaiYuan University Of Technology, Tai Yuan, China

e-mail:

kareem@163.com

Edina Borovska

Board Member

PhD, The State University of Humanities and Social Studies, Kolomna
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3213-6901

e-mail:

eborovska2@gmail.com

Rob Danin

Board Member

PhD, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-9999-2454

e-mail:

robdanin@gmail.com

Yasmina Djafri

Board Member

PhD, University of Abdelhamid Ibn Bdis of Mostaganem, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of English Language, Algeria
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-2919-5716

e-mail:

yasmina.kdjafri@gmail.com

Sue Garton

Board Member

PhD., Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

e-mail:

s.garton@aston.ac.uk

Rusty Gaspard

Board Member

MA, Louisiana State University at Alexandria, Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S.A.

e-mail:

rgaspard@lsua.edu

Halis Gözpınar

Board Member

PhD, Giresun University, Turkey
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-1470-2287

e-mail:

halisgozpinar@gmail.com

Christopher Hastings

Board Member

PhD, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, TN, USA

e-mail:

christopherhastings@gmail.com

Toni Hull

Board Member

Associate Director (MS TESOL), English Language Programs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-6912-2247

e-mail:

toni_hull2002@yahoo.com

Thomas Kral

Board Member

PhD, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, US Department State, USA

e-mail:

thomasjkral63@gmail.com

Halina Krysiuk

Board Member

PhD, Institute of geopolitical studies, Szczecin, Poland
OrcID ID: 0000-0003-4949-231X

e-mail:

halyna.krysiuk@gmail.com

Jeff Kuhn

Board Member

PhD, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, US

e-mail:

kuhnj1@ohio.edu

Zarina Markova

Board Member

PhD, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
OrcID ID: 0000-0003-0760-1274

e-mail:

zarinamarkova@abv.bg

Soumen Mukherjee

Board Member

PhD, Vit University, Vellore, School Of Social Sciences & Languages, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

e-mail:

mukherjeesou17@gmail.com

Kelli Odhuu

Board Member

PhD, Regional English Language Officer, Department of State, USA

e-mail:

odhuuke@state.gov

Karen Ottewell

Board Member

Director of Academic Development & Training for International Students, Language Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
OrcID ID 0000-0002-0398-0230

e-mail:

ko201@cam.ac.uk

Don Passey

Board Member

Prof., Department of Educational research, Lancaster University, England

e-mail:

d.passey@lancaster.ac.uk

Lamya Ramadan

Board Member

PhD, AlYamamah University INTERLINK, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
OrcID ID: 0000-0001-6869-879X

e-mail:

lramadan@interlink.edu

Kumar Dhakal Rebat

Board Member

PhD, Kathmandu University School of Education, Kathmandu, Nepal
OrcID ID: 0000-0003-4009-7268
Scopus ID: 57194587749

e-mail:

rebat@kusoed.edu.np

Anne-Cathrin Reck

Board Member

MA, Academic Sills Tutor, University of Portsmouth, Faculty of CCI, Academic Skills, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
OrciD ID: 0000-0002-9205-8159

e-mail:

anne-kathrin.reck@port.ac.uk

Yanti Sri Rezeki

Board Member

Universitas Tanjungpura, English Education Department, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
OrcID ID: 0000-0001-9960-6050

e-mail:

yantisrirezeki@gmail.com

Tatjana Samostyan

Board Member

Dr., Associate Professor, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Humanities, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

e-mail:

tetyana.samostyan@ovgu.de

Elena Trosclair

Board Member

PhD

e-mail:

Victoria Tuzlukova

Board Member

Dr, Sultan Qaboos University, Language Centre, Muscat, Oman
Scopus ID: 36521873500
OrcID ID: 0000-0003-0876-0728

e-mail:

Victoria@squ.edu.om

Gloria Ulloa

Board Member

PhD, Language Center, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Bogota, Colombia

e-mail:

glorin22@gmail.com

Carolyn Westbrook

Board Member

Associate Lecturer, Southampton University, Britain
OrcID ID: 0000-0002-8586-4128
Scopus ID: 56596276700

e-mail:

carolynwestbrook@yahoo.de

Kevin Westbrook

Board Member

MA Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching, Southampton Solent University, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Scopus ID: 57189262729
OrcID ID: 0000-0001-7523-1944

e-mail:

kevin.westbrook@solent.ac.uk

Mayada Tawfik Zaki

Board Member

PhD (First class honours), Cairo University/ MATEFL (American University in Cairo)

e-mail:

mayadatz@aucegypt.edu

Call for Papers

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Previous Issues

Volume 1

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Volume 1 | March, 2019

ARTICLES

S. Ter-Minasova. FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING (FLLT) AS THE MOST WIDELY-SPREAD WAY OF SHATTERING BARRIERS TO INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. A VIEW FROM RUSSIA.

Yu. Polshina, E. Bondareva. INTERGRATION OF LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT TERMS FROM ENGLISH INTO RUSSIAN

J.D. Brown, G. Janssen, J. Trace, L. Kozhevnikova. USING CLOZE PASSAGES TO ESTIMATE READABILITY FOR RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: PRELIMINARY STUDY

E. Shchaveleva. TO ACCEPT, OR NOT TO ACCEPT: PREREQUISITES TO ENSURE QUALITY TEACHER TRAINING

A. Green. THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE, THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES AND ENGLISH PROFILE

Volume 2

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Volume 2 | February, 2021

ARTICLES

I. Korytina. TEACHING MODELS IN THE CONTEXT OF OVERCOMING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER

K. Smyshlyak. PRE-LISTENING AND AND PRE-READING STAGES’ ACTIVITIES FROM THE SPEAKING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTIVE

T. Margaryan, L. Ivanova, N. Nikolaeva, T. Borodina. SHAPING SKILLS OF
REASONING IN ESP COURSE AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

N. Igolkina. LEARNERS TYPOLOGY: LANGUAGE ACQUIRERS VS LANGUAGE LEARNERS

K. Westbrook, C. Westbrook. A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO EMI: WHERE IS THE LANGUAGE TEACHER?

NATE-Russia

FLER Journal

Relationships Between Policy, Theory and Practice

Pedagogical Practices in Classrooms and Less Formal Settings

English Learning & Teaching in All Phases: from Young Learners to Higher and Adult Education

Language Teaching Policy & Practice in Russia

Classroom Practice in All Its Aspects

Classroom-Based Research

Methodological Issues in Practice and Research

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

New Technologies in ELT

Svetlana G. Ter-Minasova

Viktoria V. Levchenko

Irina N. Rozina

Natalia Frolova

Anastasia Khodakova

Elena Kirillina

Yevgueny Kolyadin

Ludmila Kozhevnikova

Larisa Kuzmina

Tatyana Makarova

Tatyana Margaryan

Olga Mironova

Elena Nadtocheva

Aida Rodomanchenko

Svetlana Reztsova

Svetlana Sannikova

Marina Solnyshkina

Svetlana Suchkova

Debra Johnson Abrams

Lawrence Berlin

Liu Bing

Edina Borovska

Rob Danin

Yasmina Djafri

Sue Garton

Rusty Gaspard

Halis Gözpınar

Christopher Hastings

Toni Hull

Thomas Kral

Halina Krysiuk

Jeff Kuhn

Zarina Markova

Soumen Mukherjee

Kelli Odhuu

Karen Ottewell

Don Passey

Lamya Ramadan

Kumar Dhakal Rebat

Anne-Cathrin Reck

Yanti Sri Rezeki

Tatjana Samostyan

Elena Trosclair

Victoria Tuzlukova

Gloria Ulloa

Carolyn Westbrook

Kevin Westbrook

Mayada Tawfik Zaki

Call for Papers

Journal Guidelines

Previous Issues

Volume 1 | March, 2019

Volume 2 | February, 2021