Ekaterina Yadchenko

Education

— 01.09.2001 — 30.06.2006: Belarusian State University, Philological Faculty, Linguistics (German, Italian) and business communication.
— 01.09.2006 — 30.09.2007: Belarusian State University, Philological Faculty, master's degree in German studies.
— 01.11.2009 — 31.10.2012: Belarusian State University, Department of the English Language and verbal communication, postgraduate studies (PhD). Thesis on „Discourse of Muslim migrants in Belarus and Germany“

Scholarships and fellowships

— 09.2004—03.2005: Georg-August-University of Göttingen (Germany), specialization „Intercultural Communication” (Grant of federal Land of Niedersachsen).
— 07.2011—10.2011: A scientific internship at the Institute of Language and Social Studies, Duisburg, (Germany):  studying discourses of migration, racism, anti-Islamism in contemporary Europe (grant of German Academic exchange service DAAD).

Work experience

— 2006—2007: Lecturer of the German and Italian Languages at Belarusian State University and Minsk State Linguistic University.
— 2008—until now: Belarusian State University Faculty of International Relations. Senior lecturer of German Language and German studies for Specializations “World economy”, “International relations”.

Trainings

1) 28.12.2007— 04.01.2008: Workshop: „China: political, social and cultural aspects“. Organizer: International Center of continuous political education in Sonnenberg (Germany).  Certificate 1.
2) 16—17.07.2011: Symposium: „Methods of qualitative research in social studies“. Organizer: Free University. Seminars (1) “Qualitative content analysis” and (2) “Software MAXQDA in Social studies” (Berlin, Germany). Certificate 2.
3) 30.01—09.02.2012: Winter school „Migration in the global world“. Organizer: Russian International Affairs Council, (Moscow, Russia). Certificate 3.
4) 26—28.02.2009: Symposium: „German as a foreign language in the European context“. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 4.
5) 10.2009— 08.2011: Course of test developers (foreign languages). Distance learning, including 3 Seminars in Minsk, Kiev, Moscow. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 5, Certificate 6, Certificate 7, Certificate 8.
6) 08.2010—03.2012: Course of standardized basic qualifications for teachers of foreign languages “Green diploma”. Distance learning, including 3 Seminars in Kiev, Moscow, Munich. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Moscow, Russia). Certificate 15.
7) 24—26.03.2011: Seminar „New medial tools in contemporary teaching of foreign languages“. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 9.
8) 09—11.06.2011: Seminar „Innovative forms of learning in teaching German as a foreign language“. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 10.
9) 24.10 —5.11.2011: Seminar “Time windows: history for the future”. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus).
10) 16.02—31.05.2012: Course „Germany today: to discover and to understand“. Organizer: Institute of German studies, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 11.
11) 09—12.01.2012: Seminar „Teaching of German: the tradition and the innovation“. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus).  Certificate 12.
12) 15—28.01.2012: Seminar „Regional geography in teaching a foreign language“. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Munich, Germany).
13) 20.01.2012: Seminar „Methodological introduction to the educational materials of German as a foreign language“. Organizer: Publishing house Huber, (Munich, Germany). Certificate 13
14) 14—16.06.2012: Seminar „Innovative forms of teaching and learning German as a foreign language“. Organizer: Institute of Goethe, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 14
15)28.12.2013—04.01.2014: Seminar „Migration and xenophobia in Europe“. Organizer: International Center of continuous political education in Sonnenberg (Germany). Certificate 16
16) 29.09. — 04.10.2015: International congress, dedicated to the methodical and didactic issues of teaching the German language "Educational bridge" (Ludwigsburg, Germany).
17) 30.01.— 03.02.2017: Advanced training courses for lecturers of German language of BSU “The role of regional studies in the teaching of German”. Organizers: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Institute of German and European Studies. Certificate 17
18) 19–25.02.2017: International Winter school for educators “Nazi forced labor: History and Aftermath”. Organizers: Documentation Center for NS Forced Labor and International Tracing service, (Berlin, Germany). Certificate 18
19) 9–10.03.2017: seminar "Politics, economics and society in practice". Organizers: Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Institute of German and European Studies, (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 19
20) 05.2017: advanced training courses for lecturers of German language of BSU "Political system of Switzerland". Organizer: Institute of German and European Studies,(Minsk, Belarus).
21) 06.2017: participation in the republican stage of the International competition of scientific projects of young scientists “Falling walls lab Minsk”. Organizers: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), (Minsk, Belarus). Certificate 20
22) 10-15.07.2017: participation in the Second Summer school Adukacyja.Info “Imagine Belarus: YOUth Time To Go Beyond Stereotypes”.  Organizer: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, (Klaipeda, Lithuania).
23) 11-20.10.2017: participation in the project “Erasmus + Mobility for Teaching”. Accomplished following lectures and seminars at the University (Pardubiče, Czech Republic): 1) German teaching in Belarus; 2) Cultural studies in Belarus; 3) Bilingual teaching as method; 4) Regional geography in foreign language teaching; 5) Austrian German as object of studying; 6) Linguistic situation in Belarus (in German). Certificate 22.
24) 12-14.10.2017: participation in the International conference «Intercultural and Transcultural Dimension in the Linguistic, Cultural and Historical Context». Speech on the topic: “The topic ‘National-social past’ in German lectures in Belarus as basis of intercultural competence of students” (Pardubiče, Czech Republic). Certificate 21.
25) 05-14.11.2017: participation in the seminar “ Lessons of Holocaust ” for Educators from the Republic of Belarus. Organizer: International School for Holocaust Studies Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel). Сертификат 24.
26) 11-14.01.2018: participation in the workshop "History of Belarusian literature, author’s strategies and trajectories", translation of the collection of scientific articles from Belarusian into German. Organizer: Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Oldenburg (Oldenburg, Germany).
27) 22-26.01.2018:  Advanced training courses for lecturers of German language of BSU , seminars and workshops on the topics „ Language traces in the public space“; “Cultural Studies: Switzerland”, “New textbooks on German as a foreign language”. Organizers: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Institute of German and European Studies. (Minsk, Belarus). Сертификат 25.
28) 27.01.2018: participation in the educational training “Strong leadership of modern business. Emotional motivational leadership”. Organizers: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, “Minsk Dialogue”. Сертификат 26.

Awards and honors

1. First prize for the scientific paper “Discourse portraits of refugees” in scientific competition “Protection of Refugees, promotion of tolerance in a multicultural world”. Organisers: UNHCR,    International Non-governmental Association for Scientific Research, Information and Educational programs ‘Development’. Diploma 1
2. First prize for the scientific paper “Discursive construct of racism, generated in the Belarusian youth environment” in scientific competition “Solution for refugees and stateless people: international and Belarusian experience”. Organizers: UNHCR,    International Non-governmental Association for Scientific Research, Information and Educational programs ‘Development’. Diploma 2
3. Second prize for the scientific paper “The topic of Turkish immigration to Germany in the tutorial of the German language, or Formation of tolerance of future specialists in International Affairs” in scientific competition “Culture of international coexistence”. Organizer: NGO ‘Dialogue Eurasia’
4. The third prize in the nomination "Individual management of student’s research" in the competition for the best scientific adviser and organizer of research work of students and graduate students by the results of 2013-2015. Diploma 3
5. Commendation of the Belarusian State University for many years of fruitful educational work in connection with the 95th anniversary of the founding of the BSU (October, 2016). Diploma 4

Focus of researches:

• Discourse content as object of linguistic researches.
• Lingua-semiotic and critical discourse analysis.
• Abductive thinking in scientific knowledge.
• Discourses of migrants, racism and anti-Islamism in post-industrial society.
• Issues of migration and psychological adaptation of refugees and labor migrants in new socio-cultural conditions.
• National Socialism and fascism in the Belarusian historical discourse.
• Forced labor in the public conscience of Belarus: history and contemporaneity.
• Social-political discourses of modern Belarus.
• Belarus in the context of European studies.

Public engagement

— 2004 – until now: Support of children living in the area of radioactive contamination (40 km around Chernobyl). Accompanying them to Austria, Italy for rehabilitation as an educator and interpreter.
— July 2007: Volunteer in international youth organizations. Sphere of work of organizations: protection of cemeteries and monuments of the first and second world war; reception of the history of National Socialism in the environment of modern youth. Certificate 23
— 2007 — until now: Collaboration with the German organization „Action Reconciliation Service for peace”, Berlin: organization of educational tours for German groups in the places of mass destruction of the Belarusian and Jewish population, elaboration of topics of Holocaust, creation of memorials and monuments, establishment of intercultural dialogue.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

1. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Reconstruction of the individual space and the family-space from the discourse of a migrant”. In: Bulletin of MSLU.Series 1: Philology, 2011, №4, pp. 134—143 (in Russian).
2. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Reconstruction of national-cultural identity from the discourse of a Russian migrant living in Germany: the potential of linguistic methodology”. In: Bulletin of MSLU.Series 1: Philology, 2012, №5, pp. 47—54 (in Russian).
3. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The iconic realization of the topical and focal structure in the discourse of the migrant”. In: Bulletin of MSPU of Shamiakin. Series 1: Philology, 2012, №4, pp. 126—132 (in Russian).
4. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Topical analysis of discourse as a basic stage in the study of the discourse of migrants”. In: Business. Education. Right. Bulletin of the Volgograd Institute of Business, 2012, № 4, pp. 30—34. (in Russian).
5. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Reconstruction of the discourse category "valuation" from the discourse of the Russian migrant in Germany”. In: Typology of linguistic meanings in diachronic and comparative aspects: collection of scientific papers. Donetsk, 2012, edition 26, pp. 112—122 (in Russian).
6. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Structural and semantic content of the discourse-category 'space’ in the discourses of Afghan refugees from Belarus and Germany”. In: The world of linguistics and communication: an electronic scientific journal. 2012, № 3 (in Russian).
7. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The potential of the Duisburg critical discourse analysis in the identity-study of a migrant”. In: Topical questions of philology, pedagogy and psychology. 2013, № 1, pp.137—145 (in Russian).
8. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Structural and semantic content of the topic "Migration", actualized in the individual discourse-picture of the world of a refugee”. In: Bulletin of the University of Brest. Series 3: Philology, Pedagogy, Psychology, 2013, № 2, pp. 67—74 (in Russian).

Publications in the collections of scientific articles

9. Jäger M., Jadtschenko E. “What if the context changes? The attacks in Norway between Islamic terrorism, right-wing extremism and madness“. In: „This has nothing to do with us“: The attacks in Norway in German-speaking media. Münster: Unrast-Verlag, 2011, pp. 40—55 (in German).
10. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Self-identification of an individual in the discourse of a migrant”. In: Languages, cultures, ethnos: modern pedagogical technologies in the formation of the language picture of the world: A collection of scientific articles on the materials of the VIII Russian Scientific Conference on the problems of intercultural communication. Yoshkar-Ola, 2011, pp. 156—162 (in Russian).
11. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “On the principle of content integrity and systemic in the discourse of migrants”. In: Collection of scientific articles on the materials of the 7th Karpov Scientific Readings. Part 1, Minsk, 2013, pp. 268—271 (in Russian).
12. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Critical discourse analysis, discourse linguistics, historical semantics: placement of accents”. In: Linguistics of discourse and prospects of its development in the paradigm of modern Slavic studies: a collection of scientific articles on the materials of the round table. Minsk, RIHS, 2013, pp. 69—73 (in Russian).
13. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Abductive thinking as the fundamental principle of discourse analysis using computer software MaxQDA”. In: Linguistics of discourse and prospects of its development in the paradigm of modern Slavic studies: a collection of scientific articles on the materials of the round table. Minsk, RIHS, 2013, pp. 183—187(in Russian).
14. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The topic of Turkish immigration to Germany in the textbook on the German language, or Formation of tolerance by the future specialists in international affairs”. In: Turkey and Belarus in the World Literary Process: collection of scientific articles on the materials of the international scientific-practical conference. Minsk, 2013, pp. 127—137 (in Russian).
15. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The potential of cartoons in German as foreign language lessons”. In: Practice of foreign languages teaching at the Faculty of International Relations of the BSU. Electronic collection. Edition VI, 2014, pp. 74—76 (in German).

Conference proceedings

16. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Metaphor in political discourse (on the example of the concept "Europe")”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: Materials of the II International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 87th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2008, pp. 77—79 (in Russian).
17. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The method of discourse-portraying in the discourse study of modern youth (on the material of interviews and essays of respondents from Belarus and Germany)”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: Materials of the III International scientific conference dedicated to the 88th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2009, pp. 58—61 (in Russian).
18. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Effectiveness of qualitative researches in the discourse study of refugees”. In: International relations: history, theory, practice: materials of the 1st scientific-practical conference of young scientists of the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2010, pp.183—185 (in Russian).
19. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Topical analysis in the discourse study of refugees”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: materials of the IV International scientific conference dedicated to the 89th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2010, pp.50—52 (in Russian).
20. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The category 'space' in the discourse-picture of the world of an Afghan refugee”. In: Topical issues of German philology and methods of teaching foreign languages: collection of materials of the 15th Republican scientific-practical conference. Brest, 2011, pp.60—62 (in Russian).
21. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Reconstruction of the topic "New homeland" from the discourse-pictures of the world of Russian migrants”. In: Comporativistics and typology in modern linguistic science: collection of materials of the X International linguistic seminar. Donetsk-Melekino, 2011, pp. 130—132 (in Russian).
22. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Concepts of modern German culture, actualized in the discourse of Russian emigrants”. In: Collection of materials of the Republican scientific conference of students and post-graduate students of higher educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus "NIRS 2011". Minsk, 2011, pp. 484 (in Russian).
23. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The role of the discourse category "attribution" in the discourse-picture of the world of a migrant”. In: Linguistic and methodical aspects of the formation of a multicultural multilingual personality: collection of materials of the international scientific-practical conference. Baranovichy, 2011, pp. 59—60 (in Russian).
24. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Communicative construction of the discourse reality of a refugee (on example of one interview)”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: materials of the V International scientific conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2011, pp. 34—35 (in Russian).
25. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Reconstruction of public discourses of contemporary Belarus from the individual picture of the world of a refugee”. In: Belarus in the modern world: materials of the X International scientific conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2011, pp. 302—303 (in Russian).
26. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The significance of the discourse category ‘communicative type of migrant’ in the process of stimulating an intercultural dialogue”. In: Discourse as a social activity, priorities and perspectives: materials of the international scientific conference. Moscow, Linguistic University, 2011, pp. 176—178 (in Russian).
27. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Methodology of the discourse study of migrants in the 21st century: the replacement of scientific paradigms”. In: Ethno-social and confessional processes in modern society: materials of the IX international scientific conference, Grodno, 2011, pp. 34—37 (in Russian).
28. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Formation of ‘hybrid identity’ of a migrant at the intersection of Afghan and Belarusian cultures (on example of one interview)”. In: Woman. Soc Education: materials of the interdisciplinary scientific-practical conference. Minsk, 2011, pp. 272—274 (in Russian).
29. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Cultural perspective in the social study of modern society (on example of the discourse of migrants)”. In: The new formula of science: materials of the I international practical conference of young researchers. Baranovichy, 2011, pp. 159—161 (in Russian).
30. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The importance of the lexical-semantic field "Conservatism" in the discourse-picture of the world of a refugee”. In: Topical issues of German philology and methods of teaching foreign languages: collection of materials of the 16th Republican scientific-practical conference. Brest, 2012, pp.140—143 (in Russian).
31. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Specificity and typology of the addressee reconstructed from the presentation discourse of a refugees”. In: Communication in social and humanitarian knowledge, economics, education: collection of materials of the III international scientific-practical conference. Minsk, 2012, pp.24—26 (in Russian).
32. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Cultural and ideological space of Afghan refugees from Belarus and Germany”. In: Europe: topical problems of ethno-culture: collection of materials of the V international scientific-theoretical conference. Minsk, 2012, pp. 317—320 (in Russian).
33. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Formation of tolerance towards Muslim migrants in foreign language studying process (on example of the target group ‘specialists in international affairs’)”. In: Belarus in the modern world: materials of the XI International scientific conference dedicated to the 91th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2012, pp. 357—358 (in Russian).
34. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “The potential of computer software MaxQDA in a linguistic study”. In: Computer linguistics: the scientific direction and the academic discipline: collection of materials of the II international scientific conference. Gomel, 2012, pp. 134—138 (in Russian).
35. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Content categorization as a key method of discourse study of a migrant”. In: Language - cognition – society: theses of the international scientific conference. Minsk, 2012, pp. 212—214 (in Russian).
36. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Efficiency of bilingual education in the integration of migrants in new sociocultural conditions”. In: Belarus in the modern world: materials of the XII International scientific conference dedicated to the 92th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2012, pp. 338—339 (in Russian).
37. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Formation of ecological consciousness through a dialogue of cultures in German language classes”. In: Dialogue of Cultures: International Scientific Conference. Brest, 2009, pp. 46—48 (in Russian).
38. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Organization of work with the text forming the discursive competence by students in foreign language classes (language of the specialty)”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: Materials of the VII International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 92th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2013, pp. 124—125 (in Russian).
39. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Reasonability of grammar visualization in the foreign language class”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: Materials of the VIII International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 93th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2014, pp. 183—185 (in Russian).
40. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Formation of linguistic-cultural and discursive competence through a foreign language textbook (on the example of a textbook on Russian as a foreign language)”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: Materials of the IX International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 94th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2015, pp. 218—219 (in Russian).
41. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Continuity in the foreign language teaching transiting from the general foreign language to the language of the specialty (in the context of the Faculty of international relations)”. In: Intercultural communication and professionally oriented foreign language teaching: Materials of the X International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Minsk, 2016, pp. 132—133 (in Russian).
42. Ekaterina Yadchenko. “Methodical and didactic potential of films and videos in foreign language teaching”. In: The practice of foreign languages teaching at the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University: electronic collection, edition 6. Minsk, 2016, pp. 132—133 (in Russian).

Editorial work

43. „This has nothing to do with us“: The attacks in Norway in German-speaking media. Münster: Unrast-Verlag, 2011.— 181 pp. (in German).