Olena Chernishenko
Lecturer

Degree: M.A., Princeton University, 2002, Ph.D., Princeton University (expected summer 2009).

Dissertation: "Control in Slavic."

Specialties/Research Interests: Language acquisition, language pedagogy, using networking technologies in teaching; Comparative Slavic Linguistics, Syntactic Theory, Syntax/Argument-Structure Interface; Russian, Ukrainian, and Czech cultural studies.

Current project(s): A study in second language acquisition on the maturation constraints in acquisition of L2 English morphosyntax by native speakers of Russian (including measures of aptitude and short term working memory). It addresses issues related to the debate on critical period influence on L2 acquisition.

Course development with ICALL implementation for U.S.-Russia Global-Health Care Course Study Program with 2-week Study-Abroad: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/USRussiaHCProgram.shtml.

Courses regularly taught:

• Advanced Russian
• Russian Syntax and Stylistics
• Beginning Ukrainian

Office number: BH 578

Office telephone: (812)855-3046

E-mail address: ochernis@indiana.edu

Mailing address:

Olena Chernishenko
Indiana University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Ballantine Hall 502
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103