Ganna Kudyma, PH.D.
CONTACT INFORMATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures Humanities 312, Box 951502
Los Angeles, California 90095-1502
Tel. (310) 794-5790, (office) or (310) 825-3856 (dept)
Fax.: (310) 206-5263
E-mail: akudyma@ucla.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
| ACTFL OPI Tester Certification | 2006 |
| ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Tester Training Workshop UC Berkley |
2004 |
| Ph.D. “Aureole aspects of lexical semantic in synonymic paradigms” 1991 People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia |
1991 |
| Pedagogy courses for teaching Russian as a foreign language 1988 People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia |
1988 |
| MA in Russian as a second language 1983 Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine |
1983 |
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
| University of California, Los Angeles Department of Slavic Languages and Literature Lecturer |
2002 - present |
| Carshe , Kiev, Ukraine General Manager |
1998 - 2002 |
| Ukrainian International Preparatory College, Kiev, Ukraine Director |
1993 - 1998 |
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Kiev, Ukraine Head of Preparatory Department for Foreign Students |
1991 - 1993 |
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Kiev, Ukraine Russian and Ukrainian Languages Department Lecturer |
1983 - 1991 |
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT AT UCLA
- Elementary Russian: Russian 1– 2 – 3
- Intermediate Russian: Russian 4– 5– 6
- Russian 101 A - Third –year Russian
- Russian 102 A – Fourth-year Russian
- Russian 103 A – Russian for Native and near Native Speakers: Russian National Identity
- Russian 103 B – Russian for Native and near Native Speakers: Literature and Film
- Russian 103 C - Russian for Native and near Native Speakers: Special Topics
- Russian108 – Business Russian
- Russian Flagship Program
- Ukrainian 101 A –B – C: Introductory Ukrainia
- Ukrainian 187 A – F: Advanced Tutorial Instruction in Ukrainian
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AATSEEL: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
ACTR: American Council of Teachers of Russian
CURRENT GRANT
The UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching Grants Program
(2006-2007): Materials for WIMBA: web-based oral instructional and testing materials in Russian
OID (2005-2006): Materials for WIMBA ORAL BOARD: a collaborative project for web-based oral instructional and testing materials in Italian and Russian
RESEACH INTEREST AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Primary research interests: language pedagogy and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), integrative CALL: Hypermedia and Internet.
Resent presentations
- “Communicating in a Foreign Language: Speaking as a Web-based Activity”, UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching Conference, UCLA, April, 2006
- “The Use of Oral Computer-Mediated Communication: Adding a New Dimension to FL Teaching and Learning”, DIGITALSTREAM CONFERENCE , “EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING LANGUAGES AND CULTURES”, CSUMB, March, 2006
- "Beyond Digital Audio:Wimba, Adding a New Dimension to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning", ACTFL 2005:39-th Annual Meeting and Exposition at Baltimore
- “V PUTI on the WEB”, AATSEEL Annual Meeting, Washington DC, December 2005 “Russian Wimba”, UCLA CWL, 2005
Articles
Uchebnyi komputernyi dialog //Tezisy konferentsii MAPRYAL “Teoria i praktika sozdania kommunikativno orientirovannykh individualnykh uchebnikov”. [“Computerized Dialog for Academic Purposes”. Proceedings of the International Conference, International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature. Theory and Practice of creating communicatively-oriented individualized textbooks.] Tallin,1988.
Uchebnyi komputernyi dialog “Kommercheskie peregovory” Komputernye uchebnye materialy po russkomu iazyky kak inostrannomu. [“Computerized Dialog for Academic Purposes: Commercial Negotiations." Computerized course materials for Russian as a foreign language.] Moscow, Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, 1988.
Semanticheski orientirovannye komputernye programmy po russkomu yazyky. //Tezisy Mezdunarodnoi konferentsii MAPRYAL. "Psihologicheskie i pedagogicheskie osnovy organizatsii obuchenia russkomu yazyku v usloviyax nerusskoi yazykovoi sredy” ["A semantically-oriented computer program for Russian Language." Proceedings of the International Conference, International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature: Psychological and pedagogical principles of Russian language study in a non-Russian-speaking country.” Tbilisi, 1989.
Eksperimentalnoe psikhometricheskoe ismerenie sinonimicheskikh otnoshenii/metodicheskii aspect/ Primenenie EVM v izuchenii fundamentalnykh distsiplin. [“Experimental psychometric measurement of synonymous relationships/methodological aspect: The use of computers in the study of fundamental disciplines.”] Kiev: Academic-methodological office of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, 1990.
Izuchenie leksicheskoi sinonimii s pomoshch’u komp’utera? ["Computer-aided study of lexical synonyms?" Russian Language and Literature in World Communication: problems of performance and teaching. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature.] Moscow: Russkii iazyk, 1990.
Textbook
Olga Kagan, Frank Miller, Ganna Kudyma. Second Edition, V PUTI: Russian Grammar in Context. Prentice Hall, 2005.
Olga Kagan, Frank Miller, Ganna Kudyma. Second Edition, V PUTI: Student Activities Manual. Prentice Hall, 2005.