معرفی
Alla Zareva is a Professor in the Department of English at Old Dominion University's College of Arts & Letters. Her career focuses on second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and academic discourse analysis, with particular emphasis on lexical development and presentation skills for ESL/EFL learners.
EDUCATION: She earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Georgia (2004). Her research spans lexical complexity, mental lexicon structure, and genre analysis of academic presentations.
RESEARCH TRENDS: Her publications examine L2 lexical organization, multi-word verbs, evaluative language in presentations, and corpus-based pedagogy. Recent work extends to sociolinguistic analysis of pandemic-related discourse.
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
- Shining Star Awards (2010, 2015, 2018, 2024)
- Morley Scholarship (2006)
- Graduate Student Research Awards (2003, 2004)
- British Council Scholarship (1994)
GRANTS: She co-leads two major federal grants: "Creating Teams of Educators to Build Literacy Skills of English Learners with and without Disabilities" ($3.07M, 2021-2026) and its predecessor ($2.14M, 2016-2021). Her lab focuses on corpus-driven language research and educator training programs.
