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E. Translations





  1. Russian: Stage One (Volumes 1 and 2) all captions, translation drills, commentaries in collaboration with Vladimir Korotkij.

  2. Translator/Consultant, with M.D. Lekic, The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak: Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982. Work limited to period 1938–1948 (chapters 4 through 8) and approximately 300 ms. pages.


F. Lectures (Refereed or Invited only) 1996 to present: (Chronological)





  1. “Western Assistance and Educational Reform in the Central Asian Nations: Assumptions, Obstacles, and Opportunities,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 13 April 1996.

  2. “The Role of National Associations and MAPRIAL in Research, Planning, and the Development of a Russian Field Infrastructure,” International Symposium: Language, Culture, and Education. The Status of Russian in the Countries of the World, Bryn Mawr College, 10 July 1996.

  3. “International Student and Faculty Mobility and the Advancement of Civil Societies,” Plenary Lecture, Education: Rising to the Global Challenge, Joint Conference of Washington International School and the International Schools Association, Washington, 15 March 1997.

  4. “Culture, Language & Diplomacy,” School Assembly, Governor’s School of Government and International Studies, Richmond, 17 March 1997.

  5. “International Student and Faculty Mobility: the Case of Central Asia and the South Caucasus,” Central Asian Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 4 April 1997.

  6. “The Liberal Arts and the Life of the Citizen: the Case of Russia,” Thinking Differently about Teaching and Learning: Issues for Citizenship and Professional Life, McPherson Symposium, Bryn Mawr College, 18 April 1997.

  7. “A Progress Report on Current Empirical Research on Adult Foreign Language Acquisition,” Thirtieth Anniversary Conference of the International Association of Teachers of Russian, Plenary Lecture, House of Unions, Moscow, 29 October 1997.

  8. “The Cultural Dimension within the Design and Implementation of US–NIS Education and Training Programs,” Washington Chapter, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1 December 1997.

  9. Chair, Empirical Research on Study Abroad, “The Effects of Homestay Placements in Language Gain During Study Abroad in Russia,” 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Toronto, 28 December 1997.

  10. “The Liberal Arts and the Life of the Citizen in Russia Today: Educational Reform in the Post–Soviet Regions,” Seminar on Innovation and Higher Education, Columbia University, 13 May 1998.

  11. “Study Abroad and Language Acquisition: A Study on Russian Language Learning,” 50th Annual Meeting of NAFSA, Washington, 28 May 1998.

  12. Keynote Address, “Current Empirical Research on Second Language Acquisition: Do We Know More Now About Who Succeeds in Foreign Language Study?” ADFL Summer Seminar East: At the Forefront of the New International Campus, New York University, 4 June 1998.

  13. Chair, Issues in the Acquisition of Russian, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), San Francisco, 29 December 1998.

  14. “Comparing Language Gains among Summer, Semester, and Academic Year Study Abroad Students of Russian: Empirical Research Results through 1998,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), San Francisco, 30 December 1998.

  15. “Goals 2000: A New Generation of Foreign Language Standards in the U.S.A.,” International Conference on Educational Standards sponsored by the Belarus Ministry of Education and the U.S. Information Agency, Minsk, 28 May 1999.

  16. “Professional’naja attestatsija prepodavatelej innostrannykh jazyk v ssha. Ponjatie normy i standarta,” Russkij Jazyk, Literatura i Kul’tura na Rubezhe Vekov, Ninth International Congress of Russianists, Bratislava, 19 August 1999.

  17. “On the Elaboration of a New Generation of Educational Standards: the U.S. Experience in the Modern Foreign Languages,” International Conference of the Ministers of Education of the CIS Member States, Central and Eastern European Countries: Secondary School Reform in the ‘Transition’ Nations,” Minsk, 25 September 1999.

  18. Chair, “Regional Conflict: How Will We Respond?,” Fulbright Association 22nd Annual Conference, Washington, 9 October 1999.

  19. “Immersion Learning and the Study Abroad Environment: Lessons from Twenty–Five Years of Overseas Study in Russia and the NIS,” Universalizing the University: New Challenges and Best Practices, University of Virginia, October 14, 1999.

  20. Chair, Current Research in Foreign Language Acquisition, Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Dallas, 20 November 1999.

  21. Chair, Issues in the Acquisition of Russian, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), Chicago, 30 December 1999.

  22. “Current Empirical Research on the Acquisition of Russian,” Conference of the Mid–Atlantic Chapter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Princeton, 10 February 2000.

  23. “The Role of International Exchange Programs in the Formation of Scientific Study and Educational Innovation in the 21st Century,” International Congress on Science and Education on the Threshold of the Third Millennium, Minsk, 3 October 2000.

  24. Panelist, “Beyond North America and Europe: New Global Opportunities,” Partnerships for the Education of Future Global Business Leaders: A Conference on Educational, Business, and Government Alliances, Washington, 20 October 2000.

  25. “Empirical Research on Language Gains during Study Abroad,” Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Boston, 16 November 2000.

  26. “An Empirically-Based Comparison of Word Associations among English and Russophone Youth: Toward a Bilingual Associative Dictionary of Contemporary American English and Russian,” Keynote Lecture on the Occasion of the Opening of the Bryn Mawr College Center for International Studies, Bryn Mawr, 29 November 2000.

  27. “The Professional Association as Field Infrastructure and Agent of Change,” Summit Conference on the Future of Language Learning, American Councils and FIPSE (Department of Education), 27 April 2001, Washington, D.C.

  28. “When ‘Just Being There’ Is Not Enough”, Conference on Language Gain in the Study Abroad Environment, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 25 October 2002.

  29. Facilitator, Strategic Conference on U.S. – Russia Educational Programs, hosted by the New Horizons Project in cooperation with the Kennedy School of Government 19-20 November 2002, Washington DC.

  30. Chair, “Study Abroad and International Competence”, Conference on Global Challenges and U.S. Higher Education: National Needs and Policy Implications, Duke University, 24-25 January 2003, Durham, NC.

  31. Seminar Leader, “International Dimension in Current Higher Education Development,” American Councils/World Bank Seminar on Higher Education, Harvard University, 27-31 January 2003.

  32. Plenary Lecturer, “Report on the Validation of the 2002 National Scholarship Test,” Kyrgyz National Conference on Testing, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 26 February 2003.

  33. Discussant, National Flagship Language Initiative Conference, University of Hawaii, March 13-14, 2003.

  34. “New Research on Language Gains and Study Abroad”, CARTA Annual Symposium, University of New Mexico – Albuquerque, 5 April 2003.

  35. “On Predicting Success in College on the Basis of National Entrance Examinations: A Comparison of the Results of Kyrgyzstan, USA, and other OECD Nations,” International Conference on the Development of National University Entrance Examinations, Moscow, 19-24 April 2003.

  36. Lead Presentation, “A Report on the Outcomes of ACTR Study Abroad Programs and the Design of Advanced-Level In-Country Immersion Learning Programs,” National Flagship Language Initiative: Study Abroad Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 22-23 May 2003.

  37. “The Bilingual Associative Dictionary of the Languages of Russian and American Youth”, 10th MAPRIAL Congress, St. Petersburg, 30 June – 5 July 2003. [Plenary Lecture]

  38. “Comparing Russian and American Polities”, Inaugural Civics Mosaic Conference: Civic Education in Comparative Perspective, Washington DC, 20 July 2003.

  39. Panelist, “Russia and the West”, Carnegie Corporation Conference on the Integration of Russia Into the International Academic Community: Perspectives from Russian Education and Scholarship, Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, 30 September – 1 October 2003.

  40. “Objective/Standardized Testing Comes to Eurasia: Review of 2002-2003 Independent Testing Results of Kyrgyzstan”, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 35th Annual Convention, Toronto, 20-23 November 2003.

  41. “Do Cultural Predispositions Change? Responses of Eurasian Youth to Identical Word Stimuli in 1990 and 2003. From the Bilingual Associative Dictionary of the Languages of American and Eurasian Youth.” Institute of Eurasian and African Studies, Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia), 23 March 2004.

  42. “The National Scholarship Test in the Kyrgyz Republic”, International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA), The 30th Annual Conference, Philadelphia PA, 13-18 June 2004.

  43. Capabilities & Outputs of the U.S. Education System: Proficiency Outputs, The National Language Conference. Online publication, July 2004. <http://www.nlconference.org/docs/NLC_Commentary_Davidson.doc>.

  44. “National Flagship Language Initiative. Russian Program in St. Petersburg”, All NFLI Meeting, Washington, D.C., 9 March 2005.

  45. “The College Board and World Languages: the Case of Russian”, Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Columbus, OH, 10-12 March 2005.

  46. “L-2 Gain in the study abroad context: Examining the roles of pre-program proficiency, duration of immersion, and individual learner differences”, Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT) Conference, Washington, D.C., 10-13 March 2005.



  48. “Measuring the Outcomes of In-Country Advanced Language Learning: A 20-Year Longitudinal View of Language Acquisition in the Title VIII Program”, Title VIII Symposium on “Preparing a New Generation in Strategic Languages and Cultures for Government Service”, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, 25 March 2005.

  49. “Second language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Setting”, Brigham Young University, College Lecture Series on Literature and Culture, October 2005.

  50. “An Examination of Second Language Learning Careers of American Students based on Outcomes Measurements”, University of California Language Consortium, A National Colloquium on US Language Educational Policy at UC Berkeley, October 2005.

  51. “University Outreach and Articulation in Advanced Programs”, MLA Annual Conference, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, December 2005.

  52. “Getting to Level 3 and Beyond: American Students of Russian at the School-to-College, Junior-Year Abroad, and Flagship-Levels,” National Convention of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, “Examining L-2 Outcomes: A Report to the Field on the First National Overseas Flagship Program in Russian,” Washington, D. C., December 29, 2005

  53. “An Examination of Proficiency Outcomes of U.S. Students of Russian in Immersion Learning Experiences at the School-to-College, Junior-Year Abroad, and NSEP-Flagship Levels: Predicting Gains and Accounting for Variation”, The Interagency Language Roundtable, The Foreign Service Institute, George P. Schultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, January 20, 2006.

  54. “The role of International training in shaping new competencies in the work-force: knowledge production, innovation, and the collaborative mindset. Who needs it? How does it work?” International G-8 Expert Conference Knowledge and competencies for innovative society. Moscow, Russia. April 18, 2006.

  55. “On the Need for Expanded Efforts at Test Validation. Introductory Remarks.” Black Sea Conference: Forum on Admissions Exams. Use of Tests for Admissions to Higher Education: Equity And Fitness Of Purpose. Tbilisi, Georgia. September 19, 2006.

  56. “Language and Area Studies for the 21st Century.” Plenary Panel. Fall 2006 NRC, FLAS and LRC Directors’ Meeting. Arlington, VA. September 26, 2006.

  57. “Investigating the Effects of Long-Term Immersion on Attitude Formation and Culturally-Specific Belief Structures: Material from the Bilingual Associative Dictionary of the Language and Russian and American Youth.” International Applied Sciences Conference. Kazan’, Tatarstan, Russia. March 20, 2007.

  58. Guest Plenary Lecturer, “Attaining 3-level Proficiency and Beyond: New Research on Paths to Level 3 and on Level 3 Speech Characteristics,” Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, California, 29 May 2007.

  59. “The Overseas Language Flagship Programs: Achieving Level 3 with Notes on Level 3 Scharacteristics” Defense Security Language Steering Committee, Washington, DC, September 13, 2007

  60. “Novyj zakon o russkom jazyke v svete mezhdunarodnogo opyta jazykovoj politiki,” Opening Plenary, XI International Congress of MAPRIAL, Varna, September 18, 2007.

  61. “Prediction of Freshman Single Course Grades from the 2003 Kyrgyz National Scholarship Test”, USETI Consultant Meeting, October 9, 2007

  62. “The Issue of a Russian Globalization: The Functioning of Russian as a Native, Second, and Foreign Language outside the Russian Federation.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, International Forum on the Study and Teaching of Russian, Washington, D. C., October 2007.

  63. “Directions in Language Policy and Practice in Central Asia and South Caucasus,” Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC. January 22, 2008.

  64. “Взаимоотношения между баллами, полученными на стандартизированном тестировании и оценками, полученными в ходе изучения одного предмета на первом курсе университета: прогнозирование высокой академической успеваемости”, Центр оценки в образовании и методов обучения, Бишкек, Кыргызская Республика , 7 февраля 2008 г. (“The relationship between standardized tests scores and grades obtained during the study of one subject in the first year of college: prediction of high academic achievement”, Center for Educational Assessment and Teaching Methods, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, February 7, 2008)




  1. “Preparing a New Generation of Slavists in the Context of Globalization, New Government Policies on Language , and the Latest Advisories of the MLA”, The Future of Language Instruction in the U.S., Columbia University, East European, Russian, and Eurasian NRC and LRC, February 15, 2008

  2. “New Outcomes From Study Abroad Learning: Overseas Flagships”. AIEA Conference, February 20, 2008. Washington, DC.

  3. “On Preparing a New Generation of Slavists: A Response to the MLA Report on Transforming Foreign Language Education,” Columbia University, Harriman Institute, February 15, 2008

  4. “New Structures for a Changed World: Examining Graduate Education in Light of the MLA Report,” George Washington University, March 2, 2008.

  5. “Developing the Chinese Language Education Field: Lessons from Russian”, National Chinese Language Conference, Washington, DC, April 18, 2008.

  6. “New Outcomes from Study Abroad Learning: Overseas Flagship Programs in Arabic and Russian,” NCOLCTL Conference, University of Wisconsin, April 26, 2008.

  7. “Study Abroad for All: Attracting Underrepresented Fields and Specialties.” NAFSA 60th Annual Conference, May 25-30, 2008, Washington, DC.

  8. “The Overseas Flagships in Russian and Central Asian Languages: Professional Language Outcomes and New Immersion Learning Models,” AAASS National Convention, November 18, 2008, Philadelphia, PA.

  9. “New Outcomes from Study Abroad Learning: the Russian and Central Asian Language Flagships” with Dr. Maria D. Lekic, AAASS National Convention, Philadelphia, PA November 20, 2008

  10. Introduction to the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Awards Dinner, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute, December 3, 2008, Washington, DC

  11. “The Writings of Chingiz Aitmatov: An International Symposium to honor the 80th Anniversary of the Birth of Chingiz Aitmatov (1928-2008),” Library of Congress, December 4, 2009, Washington, DC

  12. “What Teaching Experience at Advanced Levels of Proficiency Tells Us About Teaching at Beginning Levels of Proficiency”, Sixth Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning Languages to Native-like Levels of Proficiency at the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, Linthicum, MD December 6-7, 2008

  13. “The Overseas Language Flagship in Arabic and Russian: New Program Designs and New Data for the Acquisition of Arabic and Russian at Levels 3, 3+, and 4” at the Sixth Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning Languages to Native-like Levels of Proficiency at the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, Linthicum, MD December 6-7, 2008

  14. “Research, Teaching, and Learning within a Diferent Academic Culture: A Comparative Pespective on How and Why the JFDP Program Works”, AMZ Afghan Fellowship Program, Washington, DC January 12, 2009

  15. “The Place of Foreign Language Training in Area Studies”, Conference on Area Studies in the Future of Higher Education at Indiana University, February 26-28, 2008

  16. “Attaining 3-Level Proficiency and Beyond: New Research on Paths to Level 3 and on Level 3 Speech Characteristics”, Languages in the Disciplines, Symposium sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) and The Language Flagship Group, May 1, 2009, Washington, DC

  17. “Специфика обучения на третьем пороговом уровне в условиях погружения: эмпирические показатели развития компетенции”, Слово в межкультурном и, межличностном общении, Международный симпозиум, 5-6 мая 2009, г. Вашингтон (“On Developing Linguistic and Cultural Competence within the In-Country Immersion Environment: Empirical Indicators of Level-3 Competence.” International Symposium, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., 5 May 2009

  18. “The Potential and Purpose of International Educational Exchange: Teaching and Learning within a Different Educational Culture”, TCLP Opening Conference, Washington, DC, August 3, 2009

  19. “Measuring Proficiency (ILR) for Articulation, Diagnostics, and Assessment of Outcomes: Formative and Summative Testing in the Overseas Flagship Programs in Arabic, Persian and Russian”, LCTL Assessment Workshop, New York University, NY, September 18, 2009

  20. “Fields and Fluctuations in LCTLs: Russian and Eurasian Languages”, ACTR Annual Conference, Washington, DC 2009

  21. “Валидность, надежность и применения ОРТ: 2002-2009 г. Международный взгляд на Общереспубликанский Тест Кыргызской Республики.” Центральноазиатский форум ”Прием в высшие учебные заведения и развития тестирования” 5 ноября 2009 г., Бишкек, Кыргызская Республика. (“Validity, reliability and use of ORT: 2002-2009. International view on the Nationwide test of Kyrgyz Republic”., Central Asian Forum "Admission to the higher educational institutions and development of testing” Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, November 5, 2009

  22. “International Student and Faculty Mobility: Moving beyond Current Practices”, CIC CAO Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 8, 2009

  23. “Initial Proficiency Levels, Duration of Immersion, and Learning Outcomes: New data from the Russian, Arabic and Persian Overseas Flagship Programs,” Seventh Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning Languages to Native-like Levels of Proficiency, Hanover, MD 4 December 2009

  24. “New Strategies for the Acquisition of the Less Commonly Taught Languages at the University Level: The Flagship Programs Five Years Later; Examination of Learning Outcomes,” 2009 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA 28 December 2009.

  25. “Predictors of Language Acquisition in an Overseas Study Environment”, ACE WIEG meeting, Washington, DC January 13, 2010

  26. “Connotations and Culture” Teachers to Teachers, U.S.-Russia Language, Technology, Math and Science Exchange, Washington, DC 29 January, 2010

  27. “Demand and Supply: What is the Current and Likely Future Demand for Teachers of Chinese?” Asia Society, Creating a Supply of K-12 Chinese Language Teachers, February 4, 2010

  28. “Attaining Professional Level Proficiency and Beyond: Developing Pathways to Level Three and Beyond” Teacher Workshop, Arizona State University, April 2, 2010

  29. “Initial Proficiency, Duration of Immersion, and Learning Outcomes: Assessment Results from Russian, Arabic and Persian Overseas Flagships”, 13th Annual NCOLCTL Conference, April 24, 2010

  30. ” Federal Investment in the Academic and Educational Sector: Producing the Expertise, Teachers, and Programs for World Languages” U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia on “Closing the Language Gap: Improving the Federal Government’s Foreign Language Capabilities.” Washington DC, July 29, 2010

  31. “Overseas Flagship Design Components: Current Outcomes, Immersion Characteristics”, Chinese Flagship Program Dialogue: Comparing Models, improving Practice, Indiana University, September 11, 2010



  1. “Comparing L-2 Gain, Time-on-Task, and Language Utilization in the Overseas Immersion Setting: Data from the Arabic and Russian Academic Yearlong Flagships”, University of Wisconsin Language Institute Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin Russian Flagship Center, October 26, 2010

  2. “Flagship Exit Standards and Assessments: Preliminary Data for Arabic and Russian” ACTFL Annual Convention, Boston, MA November 18, 2010

  3. “The Russian Flagship: From “Novice” to “Superior” over the Undergraduate Career”, Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA November 19, 2010

  4. “War and Peace on the Language Front. The Russian Overseas Flagships at St. Petersburg University: Development and Results of the First Six Years” ASEEES Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA November 20, 2010

  5. “Foreign Language Cultural Literacy and Web 2.0” MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, November 19, 2010

  6. “Achieving Superior-Level Proficiency. The Russian Overseas Flagship at St. Petersburg University: Development and Results of the First Six Years” AATSEEL Annual Convention, Pasadena, CA January 9, 2011


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