My research synthesizes findings in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), language pedagogy and psycholinguistics and aims to increase the effectiveness of teaching Russian as a foreign language. I am particularly interested in Working Memory research and examine how language instruction can be made more processable for learners, thus leading to higher accuracy in oral production. My investigations have resulted in developing an innovative teaching approach, which effectively applies the principles of spiralling, as well as those of cognitive processing, to teaching a language, which is structurally different from English. My first teaching experiment was dedicated to teaching Russian pronunciation, Russian stress in particular, and paved the way for my second teaching intervention, which focused on case morphology and produced extremely successful results. My approach underpins my first textbook for learners of Russian, published by Routledge in 2020. The materials have been successfully trialled at the University of Swansea, at the University of Sheffield and at the University of Leeds. 

I regularly present my research at international conferences in the UK, Europe and the USA, including the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Conference, where I run the Languages and Linguistics stream. Also, with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding, I have been running a Knowledge Exchange Project (KEP), whose goal is to reduce the gap between language pedagogy research and language teaching in the classroom, as well as supporting the dialogue between Russian teaching practitioners working in different education sectors in the UK.