Second Language Studies | IULIIA RYCHKOVA

<h1>IULIIA RYCHKOVA<h1>

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<h3><b>Concentration</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>: Applied Linguistics</span></h3>
<h3><b>Role</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>: Graduate Instructor of Russian</span></h3>
<h3><b>Research interests</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>: Narrative analysis, storytelling, teaching Russian, task-based language teaching</span></h3>
<h3><b>Working languages</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>: Russian, English, and French</span></h3>
<h3><b>Email</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>: </span> <a href=”mailto:irychkov@go.olemiss.edu”><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>irychkov@go.olemiss.edu</span></a></h3>

<h1>LIN ZHU</h1>
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<h3><b>Concentration</b><span style=”font-weight: 400″>: Applied Linguistics</span></h3>
<h3><b>Role</b><span style=”font-weight: 400″>: Ph.D. student in the Second Language Studies program</span></h3>
<h3><b>Research interests</b><span style=”font-weight: 400″>: L2 Chinese Reading, L2 Chinese Writing, Sociolinguistics, Chinese Pedagogy</span></h3>
<h3><b>Working languages</b><span style=”font-weight: 400″>: Chinese and English</span></h3>
<h3><b>Email</b><span style=”font-weight: 400″>: <a href=”mailto:lzhu@go.olemiss.edu”>lzhu@go.olemiss.edu</span></a></h3>

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