Yana V. Liakh Senior Lecturer of the Department of Cross-Cultural Professional Communication Minsk, Gikalo St. 9, building 4, office 404 Phone: +375 17 293-86-22 E-mail: yanaliakh2104@yandex.ru Google Scholar Professional interests/researches: Methodology of teaching professionally oriented foreign language communication; competence approach. Education (including higher education, postgraduate and doctorate studies), trainings, professional development: Sept. 2017-June 2020 The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus Major - Public Administration and Economics Sept. 2011-June 2016 Minsk State Linguistic University Major - Intercultural communications (public relations) Trainings, professional development Advanced training course «Competence approach in professional linguistic communication» Minsk State Linguistic University, 2019 Working career: Since Sept. 2018 Lecturer, the Department of Cross-Cultural Professional Communication, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics Taught academic subjects: «Foreign language» (English) - 252 academic hours in the syllabus, «English for Beginners» (286 academic hours in the syllabus).