Professor Mikhail Fomin

Cambridge, Great Britain

Dr. Professor Mikhail Matveevich Fomin was born in Sulgachi, Amga District, Yakutia, Russia on November 13, 1947 to Anastasia Semenovna and Matvey Dmitryevich. He has earned respect for his work in the field of education over the past twenty five years.

In 1972, Dr. Professor Fomin graduated from Yakutsk University with a TEFL Diploma in English Philosophy. He continued his studies at the Moscow Institute of FL earning a certificate in English Pedagogy in 1976, at Moscow University he earned a Candidates degree in Education Psychology in 1982, and at the Russian Education Academy he earned a Doctorate in Education in 1993.

From 1972 to 1974, Dr. Professor Fomin worked as a TEFL teacher in the Department of Education at Yakutsk University. He moved on to become an Associate Professor from 1976 to 1978 and a Professor from 1982 until 1990. He then worked as a researcher at the Russian Academy of Education until 1992. Dr. Professor Fomin has been Head of the Department of Education at Yakutsk University since 1993. His research interests involve multilingual and multicultural education.

Dr. Professor Fomin has published some forty-five works. Several of his most recent publications include “Communicative-Activity Approach to Lingua-comparative Analysis and Ways of Overcoming Interference", Problems of Romano-Germanic Philology (Yakutsk 1996); “The Problem of Intensive Courses Setting up in teaching Northern Languages", “Problems of Romano-Germanic Philology (Yakutia 1995); “Methodological Basis of Computer Assisted Language Learning", Theses of International Conference: Multimedia and Teaching Languages (Moscow University, Moscow 1995); and “Integration of Yakutia in Foreign Cultures through Education", Theses of Interdepartmental conference of Yakutsk University: Humanitarian Investigation: New Aspects and Methodology (Yakutia, 1996).

A member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1996, Dr. Professor Fomin is also active in the Fulbright Program Fellowship and Otlichnik Narodnogo Prosveshchenya Rossii. He was the Second Prize Winner at the All Russia Contest for the Best Textbook in 1990 and a Fulbright Program Fellow from 1994 to 1995. When Dr. Professor Fomin is not working, he prefers to read detective stories and books on native cultures.

Dinner party in Cambridge, Great Britain

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