Specialties/Research Interests:
- Cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, second language and cross-cultural humor, humor and politeness, bilingualism and identity, second language teaching methodology and assessment.
Started out with research into second-language pragmatics, I have become more and more interested in spontaneous conversational humor and other forms of linguistic creativity.
Professional Experience:
- Elementary Russian
- Intermediate Russian
- Advanced Intermediate Russian
- Language of Modernism
- Second language teaching methods
- Contemporary Russian culture
- Using Canvas to create assessment activities
- Assessing students’ oral proficiency in the classroom and beyond
- Connecting research and foreign language classroom
- Assessing learners’ sociocultural proficiency