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CURRICULUM VITAE

Viktoria Driagina - Hasko, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Foreign Language Education Program and Linguistics Program

Department of Language and Literacy Education

College of Education

125G Aderhold Hall

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30606

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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

Summer School, Learner Corpus Research: From corpus design to data interpretation, 2007

Center for English Corpus Linguistics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Academic and Professional Positions Held

2007—present: Assistant Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Spring 2007: Assistant Instructor, Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

2003 – 2006: Research Associate, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER), Pennsylvania State University, PA; Project on Narrative and Conceptual Proficiency in Advanced Russian.

Summers 2003-05: Instructor, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Summer School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

2002: Instructor, ESL Program, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA.

2002: Instructor, Language and Foreign Studies, American University, Washington, DC.

2001– 2002: Instructor, City Gate Adult ESL Literacy Program, Washington, DC.

2000: Lead Instructor, EFL program, Far Eastern Institute of Foreign Languages, Khabarovsk, Russia.

1999: Student Teacher of German, Bemidji High School, Bemidji, MN.

Publications

Driagina-Hasko, V. (forthcoming, 2008). Motion domains of motion in Russian and English: Corpus-based analysis. In V. Driagina, R. Perelmutter (Eds.) Multiple perspectives on Slavic verbs of motion. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Driagina-Hasko, V. (forthcoming, 2008). Unidirectional and multidirectional motion events in the speech of L2 learners of Russian. In H. ZhaoHong, T. Cadierno (Eds.), Linguistic relativity and SLA. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Driagina-Hasko, V., & Perelmutter, R. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2008). Multiple perspectives on Slavic verbs of motion. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Driagina-Hasko, V., & Perelmutter, R. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2008). Verbs of motion in Slavic languages: paths for exploration. In V. Driagina, R. Perelmutter (Eds.) Multiple perspectives on Slavic verbs of motion. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Driagina, V. (2007). Conceptual fluency: A new approach to the study of foreign language proficiency. In V. P. Danilova (Ed.), Communicate aspects of modern linguistics and foreign language teaching methodology (pp. 328-335). Volgograd: Volgograd Scientific Press.

Driagina-Hasko, V. (2007). Advancing in Russian through Narration. Materials for Advanced-level Learners. Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research [CALPER], Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA.

Driagina, V., & Pavlenko, A. (2007). Identity repertoires in narratives of advanced American learners of Russian. In Z. Hua, P. Seedhouse, L.Wei, & V. Cook (Eds.), Language learning and teaching as social interaction (pp. 103-125). Palgrave Macmillan.

Pavlenko, A., & Driagina, V. (2007). Narrative and Conceptual Proficiency in Russian. Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research [CALPER], Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA.

> Book review

Driagina, V. (2008). Review of Offord, D. & Golitsyna, N. (2005). Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 487 pgs. Review of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

> In progress

Driagina-Hasko, V. (in preparation). Acquisition of motion talk by American Learners of Russian: A corpus-based investigation.

Driagina-Hasko, V. (in preparation). Everybody’s headache or teaching and learning Russian verbs of motion

Driagina-Hasko, V. (in preparation). Acquisition of diminutive suffixes by American learners of Russian (abstract passed first review stage at the Journal of Slavic and Eastern European Langauges, special volume edited by Benjamin Rifkin and Olga Kagan).

Peer-Reviewed Papers Presented to Professional and Learned Societies

Driagina-Hasko, V. (2008, accepted). Creating corpus materials for foreign language teachers and learners. Paper submitted to the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Orlando, FL.

Driagina-Hasko, V. (2008, March). Exploring conceptual fluency through learner corpora. Paper to be presented at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). San Francisco, CA.

Driagina-Hasko, V. (2008, April). Using learner language as a resource. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Washington, DC.

Driagina, V. (2007, November). Acquisitional profile of motion talk by L2 learners of Russian. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). New Orleans, LA.

Driagina, V. (2007, July). How SLA research can inform FL methodology: The case of Russian motion talk. Faculty and Graduate Student Symposium. Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Pavlenko, A., & Driagina, V. (2007, May). Paper glasses and suspended jumps: Learning to think for speaking in a L2. Paper presented at the 6^th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Hamburg (ISB6), Germany.

Driagina, V. (2007, April). Verbs of motion in the narratives of L2 learners of Russian. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Costa Mesa, CA.

Driagina, V. (2006, December). Descriptions of motion events by advanced learners of Russian. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL). Philadelphia, PA.

Driagina, V. (2006, November). How does the frog move in English and Russian? Paper presented at the Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Roundtable, Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA.

Driagina, V. (2006, May). Conceptual proficiency of late bilinguals in immersion programs. Poster presented at the Language Acquisition and Bilingualism conference. Toronto, ON.

Driagina, V. (2006, April). Materials development for teaching narrative and conceptual proficiency. Poster presented at the Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Roundtable, Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA.

Driagina, V. (2005, December). The role of conceptual fluency in advanced proficiency attainment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL). Washington, DC.

Driagina, V. (2005, March). Teachability of conceptual fluency. Paper presented at the Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) meeting. Washington, DC.

Pavlenko, A., & Driagina, V. (2005, March). Corpus-based narrative approach to the study of bilingual mental lexicon. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5). Barcelona, Spain.

Driagina, V., & Vyakina, N. (2004, December). Elicited narrative as a mediated task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL), Philadelphia, PA.

Vyatkina, N., & Driagina, V. (2004, October). Off task, but on activity. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), University Park, PA.

Driagina, V. (2002, October). The role of explicit explanation in L2 instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Virginia Teachers of English and Speakers of Other Languages (VATESOL), Annandale, VA.

Invited Talks

Driagina, V. (2007, July). Corpus-based Investigation of L2 acquisition in an environment

of immersion. Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Driagina, V. (2007, February). Tracing learner development through corpora. Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia. Athens, GA.

Driagina, V. (2007, February). Cross-linguistic adventures of Mr. Bean and a frog: motion narratives in L2 Russian. Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON.

Driagina, V. (2007, February). Computer-assisted approaches to L2 teaching and research. Department of Foreign Languages, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.

Driagina, V. (2007, February). Motion verbs in the speech of L2 learners of Russian: A corpus-based investigation. Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.

Driagina, V. (2006, November). Corpus-based approach to the study of L2 Russian motion talk. Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

Driagina, V. (2006, June). The mysterious Russian Far East. Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Instruction

> University of Georgia

ELAN 7045, Bilingualism and Cognitive Development, Fall 2008

ELAN 7045/8045, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Spring 2008

ELAN 5560, Student Teaching in Foreign Language Education, Grades P-12, Spring 2008

ELAN 4531, Foreign Language Curriculum and Methods, Grades 7-12, Fall 2007/08

> Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

APLNG 597F, Metaphor and gesture-speech interaction in L2 learning, Assistant Instructor, with Dr. James Lantolf, Spring 2007

> Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

RU 3202-3205, Basic Intermediate Russian, Summer 2005

RU 3102-3105, Advanced Russian, Summer 2004

RU 3398-3401, Introductory Russian, Summer 2003

> American University, Washington, DC

RUSS-144, Elementary Russian, Fall 2002

> Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA

ESL 7, English as a Second Language: Oral Communication, Spring 2002

> Far Eastern Institute of Foreign Languages, Khabarovsk, Russia

English as a Foreign Language: Grammar, Conversation and Composition, Pronunciation, Reading, Fall 2000

Workshops

September 2005: Co-instructor (with Sandra Savignon), Communicative Language Teaching for the 21st Century, Intensive workshop for the faculty in Foreign Language Education. University of Denver, Denver, CO.

January 2002: Convener and Instructor, Communicative Language Teaching of English in Russia, Two-Day TEFL teacher-training workshop. International Center of Cooperation and Higher Education, Khabarovsk, Russia.

Fall 2001: Speaker, Meet Your Students, Preparing ESL instructors for culture-specific classroom expectations of Russian students. American University; Washington, DC.

Additional Professional Experience

2003-2006: Tester, American English Oral Communicative Proficiency Test, Institutional assessments for International Teaching Assistants, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Summers 2004-2005: Tester, Simulated Oral Proficiency Interviews (SOPI), Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Summer 2002: Grammar Test Developer, Entrance / exit Russian grammar tests, Davis School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Honors and Awards .

2007: Gil Watz Award for Outstanding Graduate Students in Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, PA.

2006: Robert L. Baker Summer Research Fellowship for Second Language Acquisition in an Environment of Immersion, Middlebury College Language Schools, Middlebury, VT.

2006: Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Support Grant, Pennsylvania State University, PA.

2006: Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, PA.

2003–2006: Graduate Research Assistantship, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER), Pennsylvania State University, PA.

2003–2006: Travel Grants, CALPER, Applied Linguistics Department, Center for Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition Graduate Association, Pennsylvania State University, PA.

2001-2002: Hall of Nations Award for International Students with Outstanding Academic Achievements, American University, Washington, DC.

1999-2000: American Councils for International Education Fellowship, ACTR/ACCELS, Washington, DC.

Committees / Service to Professional Community .

> National

2006- 07: Media Reviewer, Review of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Nov 2007: Panel Organizer, Everybody’s Headache or Russian Verbs of Motion, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AAASS), New Orleans, LA.

Nov 2007: Chair, Motion Verbs and Aspect in Russian from Historical and Synchronic perspectives, AAASS, New Orleans, LA.

Dec 2006: Chair, Corpus and Database Approaches to Linguistics Panel, December 2005, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages, Washington, DC.

2004: Proposal Reviewer, Second Language Research Forum.

2002: Proposal Reviewer, Virginia TESOL.

> State

2007- 08: Member, Georgia Department of Education Taskforce on Modern Languages and Latin (MLL Taskforce).

> Department

2007-08: Member, Language Education Department Search Committee, TESOL Position, University of Georgia.

2007-08: Member, Language Education Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Georgia.

2007- 08: Member, Foreign Language Education Committee to Create a Dual MA Degree in Foreign Language Education and German.

Membership in Professional Organizations

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL)

American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)