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Who I am:

• I was born and grew up in Lodz, Poland
• in 1990, my family and I moved to Antwerp, Belgium
• in 2000, I moved to the US
• since 2001, I am a doctoral student in Russian and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Russian at Bryn Mawr College

My education: (see my resume)

• Ph.D. in Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College, 2001 - present
• M.A. in Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College, expected December 2003
  
• B.A./M.A. in Translation (Dutch-English-Russian), Higher Institute for Translarots and Interpreters, Antwerp, Belgium, June 1999

My academic interests:

• Second Language Acquisition: Acquisition and Teaching of Langauge Skills; Expert Langauge Learners
• Russian Language and Linguistics
• Slavic Languages: Old Church Slavonic; Common and Comparative Slavic
• Translation and Interpretation: Dutch, Russian, English, Polish

My academic work:

• Spring 2003:

            Technology in Language Teaching
            Structure of Russian II: Semantics and Pragmatics
            Statistics

• Fall 2002:

            Russian Culture Today
            Russian and Eastern European New Wave Cinema
            Structure of Russian I: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology

• Spring 2002:

            Acquisition and Teaching of Language Skills
            Issues in SLA: Theory and Problems
            Independent Study: Advanced and Superior Language Learners after a Semester Study Abroad Program

• Fall 2001:

            Research Methods in SLA: Ethnography
            Old Church Slavonic
            Doctoral Seminar in Scholarly Research and Writing

What I like:

• Languages: I am trilingual Polish/Dutch/Russian, speak English, and some French and German
• Travel. I have lived and studied in four different countries, Poland, Belgium, Russia, and US, and have traveled to a dozen more countries in Europe and North America, and plan to see more...

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