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Lada Vassilieva

Lecturer

University of Pennsylvania (PA), MA September 1996 - May 1999

MA Thesis “Soviet Language Policy. Language Death in Siberia”, with concentration in cultural anthropology, socio-linguistics, second language acquisition.

University of Miami (FL), September 1991-May 1993

M.A. in Department of English, concentration on comparative approaches to American and ֱ literary criticism.

Moscow Linguistic University, M.A. with highest honors received June 1991

Dissertation onStylistic Devices and Phraseological Irradiation in the Works of Jonathan Swift: "A Tale of a Tub" and "Polite Conversation"supervised byА.V. Kunin (professor, author of English-ֱ Phraseological Dictionary)

Moscow Linguistic University (former Moris Terez Insitute of Foreign Languages), B.A. with highest honors.Major in linguistics and teaching English as a foreign language, minor in German. German and English Linguistics. Selected to join faculty of the Stylistics Department under A.V. Kunin.

Durham University, Durham, England, March-July 1990

Chosen for study abroad program in Moscow Linguistic University competition

Course of study in English literature and translation of ֱ fiction to English. Prepared report for Durham Wildlife Trust on structure of environmental organizations in Great Britain.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE – Fall 1995 - present

University of Pennsylvania Courses:

Beginning ֱ Sequence

Advanced ֱ Conversation and Composition

RUSS Lauder Institute Summer programs –Advanced ֱ Immersion Program

Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5 pm by appointment

Email

Phone

215-898-6039

Research Interests

Foreign language teaching methodology.

Phraseology.

Selected Publications

Contributor to Info-South Abstracts Catalogue, University of Miami

Penn Language News

Courses Taught

Fall 2024

RUSS 0100: ֱ I

Affiliations

ACTFL member, OPI Tester in ֱ