Faculty

Second language acquisition–L2 motivation, L2 teacher development, literacy-based approaches to L2 instruction    

  I was a Russian language teacher (but I am a native speaker of Korean) before I went to the University of Iowa to study Second Language Acquisition. My research focuses on learnability problems within …

  Karen Evans-Romaine is second author, together with Richard Robin and Galina Shatalina, George Washington University, of Golosa , a two-volume introductory Russian textbook, now in its 5th edition (Pearson, 2011/2013); she is also co-editor, …

  Naomi Geyer’s research interests include pragmatics in Japanese language, discursive approaches to politeness phenomena, pragmatic developments in learner language, classroom discourse and language teacher education. Her book “Discourse and Politeness: Ambivalent Face in Japanese” …

  Korean Language and Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Korean language textbook development, Instructional technology in Korean language learning & teaching

  Professor Mori’s research interests center on the application of the methodological framework of “conversation analysis” to the study of talk-in-interaction involving first and second language speakers of Japanese. She is the recipient of the …

  A Slavic linguist by training, Dianna Murphy is director of the Language Institute  and founding associate director of the Russian Flagship Program . She is also co-associate director of the new Flagship Culture Initiative at the University of Maryland. …

  Mariana Pacheco’s research focuses on how bi/multilingual students use their language and literacy abilities across in-school, out-of-school, and on-line contexts. She examines how these different contexts provide students meaningful opportunities to use their repertoires …