Other Experience and Skills

Algirdas Makarevicius. Languages, Computer Skills, Teaching and Research Interests, Hobbies, and Traveling Experience

Languages

• Fluent in English, Lithuanian, and Russian
• Can communicate and read in German 
• Some knowledge of Latin, Spanish, Gothic, Old English, Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Tok Pisin, Chinese, Arabic, and Turkish

Computer Skills

• Microsoft Faculty Fellow, Microsoft, from Stockholm University, and the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
• Applications: Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Pages, Keynote; SurveyMonkey
• Learning Management System Moodle 
• Education Management Platform Eduwave
• Blackboard e-Education Platform
• Editing software Grammarly
• Photo editing and management programs
• Website design: designed www.esldrive.com website for English teachers

Teaching and Research Interests

• E-learning in the English classroom: investigating factors impacting on English as second language college students' motivation
• Integration of extensive reading into the ESL curriculum
• Cross-cultural communication and cultural pragmatics
• Language teaching methodologies 
• Material development and abridgment of text
• Computer-assisted language teaching
• Mobile learning and blogging
• Digital media, communication, and website design

Hobbies

• Photography
• Swimming
• Traveling

Traveling Experience

• Lived, studied, and worked in Lithuania, Papua New Guinea, Cyprus, Australia, Russia, China, Oman, and the UAE
• Business tours: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil
• Tourism (three world tours): USA, Germany, France, Holland, United Kingdom, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, Belarus, Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

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