(Please note: I have presented over 320 scientific talks at conferences and universities in North America, Europe, and Asia. Of these, 33 have exclusively targeted pedagogical issues. Six of these have been invited talks, and three of those have been presented to audiences of 200-400+ participants. For a full list of presentations, see my Full CV.)
1. “Who kissed who? Constructing a language for learners, teachers and researchers”, Invited Keynote Speech at CHALLENGES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING VII conference at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, October 2016. Over 220 participants.
2. “How learnable is Russian aspect?”, at the SKY conference in Turku, Finland, August 2016.
3. “News We Can Use: Implementing Research Results in Language Learning”, invited lecture at University of Stockholm, Sweden, October 2013.
4. “Pedagogical Applications of Research into Embodied Grammar”, invited lecture at the China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, Capital Normal University, Beijing, July 2011. Over 200 participants.
5. “Fra forskning til klasserom: russisk språk”, Fagseminar for språklærere i Troms organized by Fremmedspråksenteret, Universitetet i Tromsø, November 2008.
6. “Russian Aspect: From Theory to Pedagogy”, at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association conference in Chicago, October 2007. Co-Authored with John Korba.
7. “How Theory Informs Application and How Application Informs Theory”, invited plenary lecture at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Kraków, Poland, July 2007. Over 400 participants.
8. “Studenty-pol’zovateli Nacional’nogo korpusa russkogo jazyka [Students as Users of the Russian National Corpus]”, invited plenary lecture at the International Conference on the Russian National Corpus in Teaching Humanities, Moscow, Russia, April 2007. Over 100 participants.
9. “The Case Book for Czech: Interaktivní učebnice [An Interactive Textbook]”, invited plenary lecture at V. mezinárodní sympozium Čeština jako cizí jazyk, Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2006. Co-Authored with Steven J. Clancy.
10. “Metaphor in the Classroom: Adapting Cognitive Linguistics to the Teaching of Russian”, at the meeting of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association in Lawrence, Kansas, October 2005.
11. “The Frontiers of Space & Time: Multimedia Materials to Promote Proficiency in Slavic Case & Aspect”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute at UNC, August 2005.
12. “Issues for Heritage Speakers in Slavic LCTL Classrooms”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute at UNC, August 2005.
13. “The Aspect in Russian MediaBook: Material Designs and Learner Styles”, at the University of Tromsø, Norway, March 2005.
14. “A Metaphorical Approach, a Technological Adventure: The Case Book for Russian”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute at Duke U, August 2003.
15. “Russian for Russians Too: Including Heritage Speakers in the Language Classroom”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute at Duke U, August 2003.
16. “Making It Real: Learning Aspect through Everyday Experience”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute at UNC, July 2003.
17. “A soft landing for students caught between a rock and a hard place when learning aspect”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute in Durham, NC, July 2002.
18. “Learning aspect in the sandbox: a semantic model”, at a conference entitled Internationalizing the Curriculum at Duke U, Durham, NC in April 2002.
19. “Slavic Heritages in the US and Heritage Students in our Classrooms”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute in Durham NC, August 2001, July 2002.
20. “Complete and Comprehensible Case Meanings for Teachers and Learners”, at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute in Durham NC, August 2001, July 2002.
21. “Which was better, the book or the movie? Teaching language and literature using film” at Teaching Literature Forum, Center for Teaching and Learning at UNC-CH, Chapel Hill NC, February 2001.
22. “Understanding Case from the Inside: The Case Book for Russian” at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute in Durham and Chapel Hill NC, July 2000.
23. “Comenius and the (Un)Common Slav in the Classroom: Serving our Heritage Students, ” at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center Summer Institute in Durham and Chapel Hill NC, July 2000.
24. “Introduction to The Russian Case Book, ” at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA, June 2000.
25. “Deriving pedagogical strategies from research on the conceptual structures of Russian: the case of the genitive case,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Chicago, December 1999.
26. “Instructional forum on the Russian Case Book project,” with Steven J. Clancy the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Chicago, December 1999.
27. “Case Studies for Students of Russian: The Case of the Genitive Case,” an invited lecture at a workshop on the use of technology in teaching Russian language and culture at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June, 1999.
28. “The Russian Case Book Project,” co-authored with Steven Clancy, at the Workshop on the languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union at Duke University, Durham, NC, April 1999.
29. “Teaching the Russian cases: A new approach in theory and practice,” an invited lecture at the University of Tromsoe, Norway, March 1998.
30. “’Back matter’ for a Czech reader,” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Seattle, November 1997.
31. “Phonological exercises for English-speaking learners of Czech,” at the meeting of the North American Association of Teachers of Czech in Philadelphia, November 1994.
32. “Evaluating the Study Abroad Experience beyond the classroom in Tver’,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in San Francisco, December 1991.
33. “Summer Russian Language Study in a Provincial Soviet Setting,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Washington, DC, December 1989.