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Lecturer in Russian My teaching experience at ranges from first- through fifth-year Russian, Russian literature in translation and in Russian, and courses in Russian linguistics and second language acquisition. My dissertation, Interlanguage Pragmatics in Russian: A Study of the Effects of Study Abroad and Proficiency Levels on Request Strategies, focuses on the acquisition of request structures and pragmatic competence in non-native speakers of various proficiency levels and study-abroad experience. Other research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, oral proficiency, and the role of technology in language teaching. During my years as a graduate student I spent a year studying Russian at the Herzen Institute of Leningrad and the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language and Literature, Moscow, USSR in 1990-1991. I returned to a new country just 12 months later for a 1992 summer program at Moscow State University, and was able to glimpse a portion of Moscow's transformation at the beginning of the post-Soviet era. I returned to St. Petersburg during the 1994-1995 academic year to conduct research at the Pushkin House archives. Following participation in the graduate program in technology and language instruction at the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College, I prepared a multimedia project designed to introduce beginning language students to Russian poetry. The web site offers a selection of audio poetry recordings with glossed texts, and a listening exercise for each poem. Other technology based language learning materials be found under the "Web activities" section on this web site.
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