Victoria Hasko (née Driagina), Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Foreign Language Education Program

Department of Language and Literacy Education

Affiliated Faculty in Linguistics

College of Education

125 Aderhold Hall

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602

Education:

 

Ph.D.,  Pennsylvania State University, PA, Applied Linguistics, 2007

M.A.,  American University, DC, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2002

B.A.,  Bemidji State University, MN, English, Emphasis in Creative Writing, 2000

         

 

Profile:

 

I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Being bilingual myself, I appreciate holistic and ecological perspectives associated with the study of language acquisition and pedagogy, bilingualism, culture studies and language policy. Accordingly, I study the dynamics of language development as it interrelates with students’ learning histories and sociocultural milieus and have recently explored such topics as acquisition of motion structures, expressive morphology, identity repertoire, affective talk, and expression of culturally-mediated concepts by second, foreign, and heritage language learners. Currently, my particular interest is in computer-assisted language education and the affordances that it creates for fostering learner self-expression, inquiry-based learning, and democracy in language classrooms.

 

 

 

 

College of Education

Language and Literacy Education

Foreign Language Education

Linguistics Program

GA Department of Education