Irina Malinina

Irina is a teacher of English who has been in the ELT field for 25 years. She teaches a course on special educational needs to pre-service and in-service teachers of English. She holds a Cambridge DELTA and is currently a PhD student at the Russian Academy of Education.

The questions we ask

Irina Malinina shows how we can create more meaningful activities for learners which will generate more ideas and activities.

The McDonaldisation of language education

What aspects of a school are of the most interest to owners? Is teacher development worth spending time on? Good lesson plans? How important are Interesting resources?

Delving into literary texts

Irina Malinina describes how she tries to get her learners hooked on books.