Individual English teaching and communication coaching

Your expertise should not shrink in translation.

You already have the experience, or are preparing to study at a higher level. The work is to develop greater accuracy, fluency and confidence to work in English with authority, on the page and in the room.

Pathways

English for professionals

Professional communication · Specialised terminology · Core Competency · Disciplinary context

I work with experienced and early-career professionals who want to communicate complex knowledge clearly and precisely in English. The work is grounded in your own field, responsibilities and audience, combining direct language teaching with close attention to reasoning, structure and meaning.

For healthcare professionals and clinical researchers, I provide highly specialised Medical English teaching informed by my knowledge and experience of the field.

In High-Tech, Dev & AI Architecture, the work is to bridge the gap between technical knowledge and high-register communication — developing competency to confidently explain software blueprints, structure clean repository documentation and navigate ML/CS papers, and achieve meaningful collaboration with product managers, designers, other engineers during team meetings, code reviews, and project planning.

Which means explaining complex specialist work in English.

Interviews · Presentations · Consultations · Professional writing

Postgraduate admissions and academic work

IELTS · TOEFL iBT · OET · Cambridge C1 Advanced · Cambridge C2 Proficiency

I work with applicants preparing for examinations and postgraduate selection, and with students already undertaking postgraduate study in English. The work includes academic writing and argument, papers, presentations and research communication.

GMAT · GRE · GAMSAT · Executive Assessment

Preparation focuses on the language and reasoning these examinations require: understanding complex questions, analysing arguments and evidence, identifying assumptions, and explaining clearly why a conclusion follows or fails. For GRE candidates, this also includes analytical writing and the precise expression of a sustained argument in English.

Which means thinking in English, not only speaking it.

Applications · Selection interviews · Motivation letters, statements & essays · Academic papers & argument · Presentations · Research

Fields of practice

Science & Technology

Scholarly papers, open-access servers and repositories, system documentation, prompt engineering.

Healthcare & Clinical Research

Standardised international diagnostic coding, pharmaceutical concepts and peer-reviewed research.

International business & strategy

Executive presentations, intelligence briefings, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and Navigating Media Ecosystems.

How I work

Communication reasoning, structure, and meaning

Using English regularly and communicating effectively in a demanding interview, presentation, examination or academic discussion are not always the same thing.

My teaching strategy, grounded in my professional experience, combines formal English lessons and communication coaching. Your objectives and personal learning style are the deciding factors in choosing the right instruction method for you. I use direct language instruction to focus on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. At the same time, integrating communication, reasoning, structure and meaning to turn raw information into purposeful, comprehensible human interaction.

Specialist content remains central. Lessons are built around the real task. Academic argument is taught, not merely proofread, and specialist content is not reduced to generic classroom material.

Sessions are conducted in English. Ukrainian and Russian are available for clarification when useful.

Education and qualifications

Maria Racine

née Nazarenko

Working where language, specialist knowledge, and consequential decisions meet—in business, law, healthcare, dev/IT, and technical research.

Highfield Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), including Teaching Business English
English in the multilingual classroom, British Council
Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh
Analyzing Disrupted Health Systems in Countries in Crisis, WHO
MSc Management, Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh
MA Politics, Security and Integration, UCL
BA European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Manchester

Contact

Bring the task, not a generic goal.

If you would like to discuss the work you need to do in English, write to me.

maria.racine@otiumprojects.com