Dr. Kira Gor

Associate Professor

BIOGRAPHY

Kira Gor joined the Russian Faculty at the University of Maryland in 1992. Before coming to Maryland, she taught at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Currently, she teaches undergraduate courses in Russian language and culture, and graduate courses in Russian linguistics and second language acquisition.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. - Linguistics & Experimental Phonetics, Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D - Russian & Second Language Acquisition, Bryn Mawr College

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS

Second Language Acquisition

Russian Phonetics

Phonology and Morphology

Foreign Language Pedagogy

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Interlanguage Phonology and Second Language Orthography: Vowel Reduction in the Interlanguage of American Learners of Russian (1998)

Russian Stage One: Live from Moscow! A four-volume video-based Russian language course for beginners (Co-author, 1996)