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Marina Sabanadze

Retired

• Ph.D. (Canadian equivalent: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1988); Ph.D. (State University of St.-Petersburg, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 1987); M.A. (State University of North Ossetia, Vladikavkaz, Russia, 1983)
• 323 St. Patrick’s Building, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
• Email Marina Sabanadze

Marina Sabanadze (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream) retired June 30, 2026.

Courses

Current course information for this faculty member can be found by searching the  by Term and Name.

Courses Previously Taught

• : First-Year Russian I
• : First-Year Russian II
• : Second-Year Russian I
• : Second-Year Russian II
• : Third-Year Russian I
• : Third-Year Russian II
• : Russian for Social Studies
• : Russian for Research

Awards/Honours

• CUSA Teaching Excellence Award 1992-1993
• CUSA Teaching Excellence Award 1993-1994
• Nomination CUSA Teaching Excellence Award 1994-1995
• Nomination CUSA Teaching Excellence Award 1995-1996
• Professional Achievement Award for Instructor Employees 1995-1996
• Teaching Excellence Award in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 1999-2000
• FASS Teaching Award Winner 2008 
• Nomination Service Excellence Award 2011-2012
• A Best Instructor submission from Raving Ravens 2016-2017
• Nomination Teaching Excellence in ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Residences 2018-2019
• Nomination Teaching Excellence in ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Residences 2019-2020

Research Interests

• Russian language curriculum development
• Russian morphology
• Russian syntax
• Russian for applied purposes of translation into English
• Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language
• Methods of teaching foreign languages
• Russian language proficiency testing
• Phonosemantics, sound symbolism

Textbooks Written and Used in Current Courses

• Our Way to Russia I (RUSS1010, RUSS1020)
• Our Way to Russia II (RUSS2010, RUSS2020)
• Russian Practical Syntax: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence (RUSS4115, RUSS4120)
• Theory of Translation from Russian to English (RUSS4120)
• Practical Translation from Russian to English (RUSS4120)