Colloquium: Aneta Pavlenko
The Future of Post-Soviet Ukraine: Trilingual, Bilingual, or Monolingual?
| What | Colloquium |
|---|---|
| When |
2009-04-15 03:00 PM
2009-04-15 05:00 PM
April 15, 2009 from 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm |
| Where | Mee Room, Memorial Union |
| Contact Name | Beatriz Wilgohs |
| Contact Email | bwillgohs@ucdavis.edu |
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Dr. Pavlenko is Professor of TESOL in the College of Education at Temple University. Her research focuses on multilingualism, second language learning, negotiation of identites in multilingual contexts, and issues of gender and bilingualism. She is the author of Emotions and multilingualism (2005, Cambridge University Press), co-author of Cross-linguistic influence in language and cognition (2008, Routledge, with S. Jarvis), and co-editor of Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts (2004, Mulitilingual Matters, with A. Blackledge).
There will be a reception with light refreshments following the talk.
Abstract
Language policy is a divisive issue in Ukraine, a country that is monolingual de jure but bilingual de facto. In this talk, I will outline the key issues and positions in ongoing language debates in Ukraine. Then, I will present results from a recently completed study where I examined language competencies of members of the young generation who received their schooling after the break-up of the USSR. The results of the study, in combination with the results of recently conducted language surveys and ethnographies, will serve to assess the outcomes of two decades of uknrainianization efforts and to hypothesize about Ukraine's linguistic future.
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