Expertise

Research + Teaching Interests

  • cognitive and socialization factors in language learning and strategies of foreign language students; collaboration; constructivist approaches and resistance factors in teacher development

Regional Expertise

  • Cameroon; Senegal; Azerbaijan

Research Interests

  • sociocultural approaches to strategies-based language learning; models for professional teacher development and teacher resistance to change; family language maintenance in the diaspora
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, African Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Center for International Education, Development and Research, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Global Change, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Language Studies, Russian, International Studies, African Studies, Social Sciences, Education
Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, Foreign and Second Language Education, 1987
MA, University of Pittsburgh, German Language, Literature and Linguistics, 1979
BA, Washington and Jefferson College, German Studies and Linguistics, 1973