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Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute Ufa, Russia
6/1 Br. Kadomcevyh St., apt. 66, Russia, Ufa, 450059 E-mail luizagazizova@yahoo.com
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Luiza Gazizova was a visiting scholar at The George Washington University during the 2003-2004 academic year. Her stay was sponsored by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. At GWU she was associated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Her mentor was Professor Bernard Mergen. Ms. Gazizova graduated from the Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute (BSPI) with her PhD in Linguistics in 1999. Her research focused on semantics of English language prepositions and similarities and differences in the linguistic categorization of space. She also implemented a comparative analysis of the semantics of English and Russian prepositions. In 1994 she received her Teacher’s Diploma (equivalent of Master’s Degree) in English and French languages. She received it from BSPI and afterward she started her career there. First she worked as a lecturer teaching English language from 1994 to 1996. Then in 1999 she became an associate professor in the Department of English. Ms. Gazizova not only taught English classes, but she also designed courses in Linguistics and Contrasting the Typology of Russian and English Languages. Ms. Gazizova is a member of two professional societies in Ufa, Russia. She is a member of the American-Bashkir friendship club for English teachers. She is also a member of a scientific group that engages in research on the semantics of distantly related languages and relations between culture and language semantics. This group under the supervision of professor Shabanova was awarded a grant from the University of Michigan in 2000. In Washington, D.C., Ms. Gazizova was an intern at the high school “School Without Walls.” She was a teaching assistant in a class on African-American History.
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