Deborah Garretson
Associate Professor of Russian
Acting Chair, Fall '15
Author of numerous articles on various aspects of Second Language Acquisition, ranging from the psycholinguistics of reading in a second language, to cultural frameworks for Second Language Methodology.
Has also served as interpreter as the negotiations for the INF and the START I and START II treaties, as well as at the US-USSR summit meetings since 1985.
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Department(s)
Russian
Education
- B.A. Mcgill University
- M.A. New York University
- Ph.D. New York University
Selected Publications
"Language Loss as Language Use and Language Change: A Theoretical Framework for Further Research," in Festschrift to Honor Zoya Yureva , M Sendich (ed.), (1988) 175-180.
"Advancing Russian Reading Skills: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game," in Teaching, Learning, Acquiring Russian , S Lubensky and D K Jarvis (eds.), (1984) 151-169.
"A Psychological Approach to Interpreting," Meta , 26:3 (1981) 244-254.