I am a native Russian speaker with more that 20 years of experience in teaching English at the university level. I graduated from Volgograd Pedagogical University (Russia) in 1980 with the qualification – Teacher of English and German. In 1991 I graduated from the post graduate courses of St. Petersburg University (Russia) with an awarded scientific degree – Candidate of Pedagogical Science (PhD). My thesis was the study in the field of Motivation of Learning Foreign Languages and Methods of Tea.