The Russian linguist and morphologist Evgenia Vitalievna Sereda believes that the rich Russian language is like a living organism, which is sometimes useful to examine through a microscope.
Childhood and youth
Evgenia was born in 1978 in Moscow. Her father, Vitaly Grigorievich, is a mining engineer, was engaged in the exploration of minerals. Zhenya was the eldest child in a large family, so she started working early to help her parents. Her youth fell on the 90s, which became a turning point in the life of the country.
In 1991, Evgenia came to the theater studio "OASIS", which was directed by the poet and playwright Inna Zagraevskaya. For 3 years, the girl participated in the performances of the collective, played in the performances "The Little Mermaid", "The Heir", "White Feather - Black Feather", "Fire Flower".
In 1995, Sereda entered the 1st year of the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute, at the same time she received a director's education there. The theater experience helped shape her distinctive teaching style, she says. Evgenia learned how easy it is to light up students, but also to burn out herself.
Loyalty to the profession
The university instilled in the graduate an unquenchable love and great respect for the teaching profession. Teaching carried her away from the 1st year, she remains faithful to her to this day.
In 2000, Sereda represented the university at the city competition "Teacher of the Year in Moscow" in the "Debut" nomination. The girl successfully overcame all the stages and reached the final of the competition.
Evgenia has not only many years of experience as a school teacher, since 2004 she has been holding the position of a senior teacher at the Military Academy of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The teacher is constantly improving his skills and updating his own methodological piggy bank. This habit appeared in her during her studies, during her university internship. At some point, when it seems that the ceiling has been reached, it is very important to rise to a new level and grow upward. Workshops and access to new technologies help push the boundaries. Much attention is paid to the information competence of students today, because in fact the methods of forming techniques are simple, but very effective. On the basis of the Internet school "Education" Sereda has created several electronic modules on the subject "Russian language" as part of the order of the Federal Agency for Education. For 9th grade students, she has developed modules for the implementation of distance learning.
Integration of Sciences
Yevgenia devoted many years of her teaching career to the educational center "Penates". During this period, dozens of her monographs were published on the integration of natural and humanitarian sciences. When the future teacher came to the Faculty of Philology, literature was her favorite subject. But the teachers revealed to the student that the full brightness of the Russian language cannot be comprehended in isolation from other sciences. Integration with natural sciences creates a holistic picture of the world. For example, without knowing the spelling of the names of settlements, a geographer will not be able to find them on the map.
Evgenia's travels around the country with her students revealed to them the diversity of the Russian language. For example, in Tatarstan there are residents who speak more literately than in the capital, and such a beautiful, melodious dialect as in Vologda cannot be found anywhere else. Traveling around the world showed that the English language is losing its monopoly and is no longer putting pressure on the Russian language.
Scientific activity
While still a student, Evgenia was fascinated by the study of the modern Russian language, in particular morphology. Interjection turned out to be the most controversial issue in speech grammar. The place of this part of speech in the general classification and its interaction in the modern system of philology are devoted to Sereda's candidate and doctoral dissertations. A separate section is devoted to the formulation of punctuation marks for interjections. A significant contribution to the study of the issue was the corresponding textbook, which was published in 2013. The book is intended not only for linguistic students, but also language teachers. Material is backed up from fiction, contemporary poetry and colloquial speech.
For many years Sereda has been distinguished by an interest in ancient languages and linguistics. She chose the Church Slavonic language as one of the directions of her own scientific research. She adapted the methods of the famous Russian linguist Alexander Kamchatnov for Sunday parish schools. Eugene herself taught this discipline in one of the capital's educational institutions and sang in the church choir.
Journalist and poet
Within the walls of the pedagogical university, Sereda woke up an interest in journalism. She graduated from the evening department of the Faculty of Additional Education in this specialty, and then successfully combined her main activity with journalistic creativity. Collaborated with periodicals: "Uchitelskaya Gazeta", "Pedagogical University", Publishing House "First September". In the early 2000s, Evgenia taught a course on the theory and practice of mass information at the Graduate School of Management.
Visitors to the Internet portal Poems.ru with interest get acquainted with the poetic works of Eugene, most of which are philosophical and love lyrics.
Purity of the Russian language
Today, a rare teacher of literature is able, without frowning, to pass by a group of adolescents whose speech consists of continuous interjections and parasitic words. "Anglo-American inclusions" also play a significant role in this. Ellochka the Cannibal from the novel by Ilf and Petrov involuntarily comes to mind. The time allotted in Russian schools for the study of interjections is sorely lacking. Some of the topics are "galloping across Europe", hence the formal and linguistic problems. Evgenia Sereda devotes a considerable part of her biography to these issues. She gives lectures and creates new monographs. In her opinion, it is interjections that bring liveliness and expression into speech, especially in youth, and therefore require attention and study.
The eminent linguist and teacher believes that there are pluses and minuses in the school exam. Today, everyone is being driven to the same level - techies and humanities. But Evgenia Vitalievna takes it for granted and considers it her task to help children cope with it.
