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    PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

    2018 – current – Senior Lecturer, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.

    2017 – 2018, Post-Doc., Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Haifa (supervisor Dr. Rama Novogrodsky) project title “Linguistic abilities of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), children with High Functioning Autism (ASD), and children with Hearing Impairment (HI): a comparative study.”

    2016 - 2017, Post-Doc., Bar-Ilan University, GIF Grant (PI: Dr. Galit W. Sassoon): Dimensions and gradability in grammar and cognition: a behavioral and ERP study on language processing. ( in collaboration with Dr. David Anaki).

    2015  - 2018  – External Lecturer, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.

    2013 – 2018 - External Lecturer, Department of Communication Disorders (Language and Speech Pathology and Audiology), Hadassah College

    2014 – 2016 - Consultant - ISF 863/14– PI1 “Disentangling Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and socioeconomic influences on language acquisition and emergent literacy among preschool children with and without SLI from two bilingual disadvantaged populations"

    2013 – Teaching Assistant – Psycholinguistics (BA Program), Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.

    2011-2014  – Research  Coordinator - GIF 1113/2010 “How can a teacher tell if a bilingual child has language impairment: A study of the language of Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school years”.

     

    2012 – 2016, PhDDepartment of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University. PhD Dissertation: Linguistic profiles of

    bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking children: effects of bilingualism and SLI (advisor: Prof. Sharon Armon-Lotem)

    2007 – 2011 MA (Summa Cum Laude), Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.  Thesis: Discourse Markers in Narrative of Bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking pre-school children. (advisor: Prof. Joel Walters).

    1994-1999 BA, English Department, Moscow State Pedagogical University (Russia).

    מחקר

    ADDITIONAL RESEARCH  EXPERIENCE / ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

    2017 - Internship – City University of New York (CUNY), The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island. (Dr. Irina Sekerina) "Acquisition of Case morphology in bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking children: an eye-tracking study".

    2008-2010 – Research Assistant -  BMBF funded project “Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and Israel.”

    FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / NOMINATIONS

    2022-2024 – Member of the Young Forum of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

    2021-2022 – Bar-Ilan University`s Outstanding Lecturer

    2018-2021 The Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researchers

    2017 The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities: An internship award

    2017 Institutional Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Haifa

    2017 Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 26 (FASL26): conference travel award

    2017 COST IS1406 “Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond”: training school award

    2015 Bar-Ilan Rector Prize for Excellence in Academic Studies

    2014 Wolf Fund Scholarship for Academic Excellence

    2012 Bar-Ilan University President's Scholarship to Outstanding PhD Students

    RESEARCH GRANTS

    2022-2024 National Institute of Psychobiology in Israel (NIPI): “Exploring the Use of Dual-Language Assessment for Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment” Role: PI / co-PI: Dr. Rama Novogrodsky, University of Haifa

    2021-2022 German-Israel Foundation (GIF): No. I-260-104.4-2021 “Multilingual families` response to COVID-19: New Opportunities and Challenges” Role: PI / co-PI Vladislava Maria Warditz (Universität Potsdam, Germany)

    2021-2024 – Israel Science Foundation (ISF): No.  552/21 “Towards Understanding Heritage Language Development: The Case of Child and Adult Heritage Russian in Israel and the USA” Role: PI

    2021-2024 – Israel Science Foundation (ISF): No.  552/21  International Cooperation Grants Program: Role: PI (CI: Prof. Maria Polinsky)

    2021-2024 – Israel Science Foundation (ISF): No. 760/21/ the New-Faculty Equipment Grants Program “Monolingual and Bilingual Language Processing: An eye-tracking lab” Role: PI.

    פרסומים

     

     

    2018-present – a committee member of the Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)

    2016-present – collaborating with Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA)

    2016- 2017 – Working Group Member, Working Group 7, COST Action IS01306 “New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe - Opportunities and Challenges.” (http://www.bi-sli.org/http://www.nspk.org.uk/ )

    2010-2013 – Action Secretary, COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment.” (http://www.bi-sli.org/http://www.bi-sli.org/ )

     

     

     

    תאריך עדכון אחרון : 11/12/2022