Alla Nedashkivska

Alla Nedashkivska is a professor of Slavic applied linguistics in the department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS), currently an interim Chair of MLCS, and a former director of the Ukrainian Language Education Centre at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. Most recently she was Team lead of the Nationalities, Culture and Language Policies research cluster of the Research Initiative on Democratic Reforms in Ukraine international research project (KIAS). She publishes in the areas of Slavic linguistics, discourse analysis, political and media language, language ideologies, as well as language pedagogy and second language acquisition in Ukrainian. She authors Ukrainian language textbooks, one of which, Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture (University of Alberta Press, 2010) has won the 2012 AATSEEL Book prize for “Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy”, and another “Вікно у світ бізнесу: ділова українська мова / A Window Into the World of Business: Ukrainian for Professional Communication (University of Alberta Press/Pica Pica Press 2016) has received “The Inaugural University of Alberta Open Educational Resources Award” (2018). Her newest textbook project [with O. Sivachenko] PodorozhiUA: Beginners’ Ukrainian via the Blended-learning Model is forthcoming.