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Liudmila Nikolaeva is a Junior Lecturer in Russian as a Foreign Language and Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature at the University of Tartu, holding dual appointments in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Narva College) and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures). She serves part-time (50%) in both roles since September 2023, with prior full-time positions from 2021-2023. Her PhD research focuses on language code-switching mechanisms in Russian-speaking children receiving Estonian-language education under supervision by Elizaveta Sosnovtseva and Olga Burdakova.
Education: She earned a Master's in Education (2015) and is pursuing a PhD in Russian Language and Literature at Narva College, University of Tartu. Her master's thesis explored foreign language users' ability to decode Russian cultural gestures through experimental research.
Research interests include Russian linguoculture analysis, bilingualism (Russian-Estonian), corpus linguistics (RusLAPSED child speech corpus), and educational linguistics. Recent work focuses on bilingual speech patterns in children and corpus representation challenges.
Publications emphasize bilingualism studies and corpus development in Russian-Estonian contexts. She has contributed to international conferences like Uralo-Indogermanica and Baltic language corpus symposiums. No scientific awards are listed but maintains active research collaborations in sociolinguistics and education.
Advisory work includes her own doctoral supervision. Research activities involve the RusLAPSED corpus project analyzing child language development in multilingual environments.