Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time

Dr Elena Polyudova is a Distant Associate Scholar at the Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies at the Russian Academy of Education. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Pedagogy of Art and the Scientific Committee of the journal Social Sciences and Culture. As an author and editor, she published a number of books and articles on art education and cultural studies, including Current Issues and Strategies in ESL Studies (2014), Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World: Modern Vision of Old Stories (2016), and Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture (2016). She teaches Russian and English languages in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Her current research interests are the multicultural and cross-cultural environment in the modern world, the educational dialogical space in art education and museum pedagogy.