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Dostoevsky, (&) Tarkovsky; 19th-century Russian literature; Soviet film and literature after 1956; Psychiatry and literature; Media and cinema studies (MACS); AI in teaching languages and cultures; Multimodality and visual media in teaching; Second language acquisition (SLA) and TESOL; Cognitive studies; Linguistics; Complex dynamic systems theory (CDST); Digital humanities; Adaptation studies; Translation and interpreting studies; Everyday life studies
Highlighted Publications
Motov, Sergei. Teaching Russian Verbs of Motion through Russian-Language Cinema: A Cognitive Perspective. Russian Language Journal, vol. 75, no. 2, 2025, pp. 1-22. DOI; Scopus
Motov, S.V. "Foreign language written creative assignments in a language university in the era of ChatGPT: Problems and classification of solutions." Language and Culture, no. 72, 2025, рр. 251–277. (In Russian). WoS; URL
WoS Researcher ID: QTT-0928-2026
Scopus ID: 60769512100
Recent Publications
Other selected peer-reviewed journal publications:
Language Pedagogy
Motov, S.V. "Coordinative and communicative potential of using personal digital devices for foreign-language projects at a language university." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, 2024, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1208-1221. (In English and Russian). DOI; RCSI
Motov, S.V. "The Communicative Aspect of the Linguocognitive Approach to Foreign Language Teaching." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, 2023, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1172-1183. (In Russian). RCSI
Motov, S.V. “Linguocognitive Foundations of Teaching English Negation.” Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, 2020, vol. 25, no. 187, pp. 37-45. ELPUB
Psychiatry and Literature
Motov, V.V. and S.V. Motov. From “insanus in catenis” to the: “system of unconstrainedness”: psychiatric reality and its artistic interpretation in the 18 – first half of 19th centuries (part 1). The Independent Psychiatric Journal (IPA Herald), 2024, no. 4, pp. 71-80. (In Russian). NPAR
Motov, S.V. and V.V. Motov. "Titular Councilor Goliadkin and Syndrome of Subjective Doubles." The Independent Psychiatric Journal (IPA Herald), 2020, no. 3, pp. 16-21. (In Russian). NPAR
Motov, S.V. and V.V. Motov. "Psychiatry in Literature: “The Lunatic Asylum” by A.F. Voeykov. The Independent Psychiatric Journal (IPA Herald), 2019, no. 4, pp. 98-104. (In Russian). NPAR
Scopus/WoS abstracts/proceedings:
Motov, S.V., and V.V. Motov. “On the issue of psychopathological analysis of a work of fiction using the example of Dostoevsky’s The Double.” European Psychiatry, vol. 68, no. S1, 2025, pp. S911-S912. DOI; PMC
Motov, S.V., and V.V. Motov. “The Insane in Chains: Literary Image of Russian Fiction and Historical Truth of the First Half of the 19th Century.” European Psychiatry, vol. 68, no. S1, 2025, pp. S912. DOI; PMC