(*1983) holds MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistic, English and Japanese language and literature, CELTA, IHCYLT and Delta certificates in teaching from Cambridge English Assessment. Her main spheres of interest comprise linguistics, methodology of teaching, language learning and acquisition, cognitive science, social semiotics and multimodality. She has been a practicing English as Second Language teacher, teacher trainer and methodologist for 15 years. Marina is a frequent conference presenter, the most recent events including InnovateELT (Barcelona), IATEFL Poland, IATEFL Hungary, The Image Conference (Brussels, Belgium), ELT Council (Malta). Currently she is doing a PhD course in Semiotics at Charles University, researching the interdisciplinary topic of redefining the modern concept of literacy with the use of multimodal texts.