Nikitenko Zinaida Nikolaevna is a professor, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor. Zinaida Nikolaevna graduated with honors from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Birsk State Pedagogical Institute in 1975. In 1985 she defended her thesis entitled "Increasing the motivation for learning FL in students of grades 4-5." Nikitenko teaches at the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Work experience of Zinaida Nikolaevna Nikitenko is 42 years. She teaches such disciplines as: teaching methods of foreign language education in primary school, design and implementation of foreign language education in primary school, technologies for achieving personal and metasubject educational results.