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Dr. Anna Mikhaylova is a Lecturer in Russian at the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland. She holds a BA/MA in Teaching Foreign Languages from Ryazan State Pedagogical University (Russia), an MA in English (Linguistics/TESOL) from East Carolina University (USA), and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina. With 13 years of prior tertiary teaching experience in Russia and the USA, she specializes in Russian language instruction and supervises undergraduate/postgraduate research projects.
Her research explores the intersection of Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, and Language Pedagogy. Key interests include cognitive/social impacts of bilingualism, heritage speaker language development, and pedagogical strategies for language acquisition. She investigates linguistic challenges in bilingual contexts to inform teaching methodologies and policy.
Publications (2019–2024) predominantly focus on Russian heritage/second language acquisition, morphological complexity, and pedagogical challenges. Trends include cross-linguistic studies of Russian imperatives, aspect acquisition, and teacher training in TESOL. Research employs experimental, qualitative, and comparative methodologies to address bilingual education gaps.
She actively supervises doctoral candidates in areas like heritage language maintenance, trilingual families, and trauma narratives in Slavic literature. Grant involvement includes the Community Schools as a Nexus for Diasporas Language and Culture Maintenance project (UQ Knowledge Exchange & Translation Fund, 2021–2022).
Between 2013–2021, she served as Associate Editor for The Heritage Language Journal.
