College of Humanities People
Ludmila Isurin, Assistant Professor
Buckeye Language Network: http://buckeyelanguagenetwork.osu.edu/Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures: http://slavic.osu.edu/
Office Information
363 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: isurin.1@osu.edu
Fax: 614-688-3107
Office Hours:
(AU11) Thursday 2:00-3:00
363 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: isurin.1@osu.edu
Fax: 614-688-3107
Office Hours:
(AU11) Thursday 2:00-3:00
Education:
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1999 (second language acquisition, psycholinguistics).
General Background:
Linguistics/SLA faculty, affiliated faculty of the Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Second Language Studies (http://sls.osu.edu), affiliated member of the OSU Center of Cognitive Science(http://www.cog.ohio-state.edu/index.php.) Research interests: Second language acquisition, effects of the second language on the first, bilingualism, psycholinguistics (i.e. memory construct, lexical access, cognition, code-switching). Among recent publications: - "Russian Diaspora: Culture, Identity and Language Change" (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011); - co-edited volume (with Kees de Bot and Donald Winford)"Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code-Switching" (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009); co-edited volume (with Jeanette Altarriba) - "Memory, Language, and Bilingualism: Theoretical and Applied Approaches" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2012) - Superior Speakers or “Super” Russian: OPI guidelines revisited, in V. Makarova, (Ed.) "Russian Language Studies in Canada and USA: New Focus", London, UK: Anthem Press (forthcoming, 2012). The following courses taught at OSU: Graduate level: Cognitive Aspects of Second Language Acquisition; Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Bilingualism; Bilingualism: Selected topics from the psycholinguistic perspective; Language, Culture, and Cognition (Linguistic Relativity); Methodology of Second Language Teaching; Diaspora; Language and Memory, Psycholinguistics of Code-switching Undergraduate level: Introduction to Language;Introduction to Russian Culture; Business Russian, Practical Pronunciation; Introduction to Russian Linguistics (5th year Russian), Russia through the Prism of History (5th year Russian); 3rd year Russian (RU560-562); Language maintenance.
