Dr Svetlana Sokolova is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, and a member of the research group CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian). She visited the ooominds team in Autumn 2018.

Her main research areas involve cognitive grammar, corpus and historical linguistics with major focus on Russian morphology and syntax. From a theoretical perspective, she is interested in linguistic variation and rivalry as a result of both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic factors. From a practical perspective, she addresses the issue of how empirically based cognitive linguistics can be used in second language learning and in developing strategic language teaching materials.