Profile
Professor Zinaida Sabitova earned her Ph.D. in the grammar of Old Russian from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan in 1999. She has been teaching Russian language at all levels and to various groups of students for close to three decades. Throughout her career as an educator, Prof. Sabitova also taught a variety of courses in linguistics and culture. Before joining the Hunter program in 2022, she worked at Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University and Al-Farabi National University in Kazakhstan, at the University of Helsinkiin Finland, and Anadolu University in Turkey.
Prof. Sabitova’s research interests include Russian grammar, functional syntax of Russian language, historical grammar of the Russian language, lingua-cultural studies, intercultural communication, methods of teaching Russian as a native, second and foreign language, and functional literacy in education.
She is the author of Morphology of the Modern Russian language (Almaty, 2011), Lingua-Cultural Studies (Moscow, 2013), Historical Grammar of the Russian Language (Moscow, 2013), Russian Grammar. Advanced level(for students in Turkey) (Ankara, 2016, 2017), Functional Syntax of Russian Language (Moscow, 2019), Developing Functional Literacy Skills of Teaching the Russian Language in High-Schools (Moscow, 2022), and The Russian Language for Grades 5-11, the required text for all middle and high schools in Kazakhstan since 1999.
In 2019, Prof. Sabitova received the National Russian Pushkin Medal for her achievements in developing Russian language studies around the world by the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature.