Anna Geisherik
Lecturer
Russian ACE Program Coordinator
Coordinator, Russian and Ukrainian
Education:
B.A. Kharkiv National University (Ukraine), English and French
M.Ed. University of Cincinnati, TESOL
D.A. Stony Brook University, Foreign Language Instruction
Contact Information:
Email: anna.geisherik@stonybrook.edu
Office: 1075 Humanities Building and Online
Dr. Anna Geisherik has been teaching Russian at SBU for over 20 years. She is originally from Ukraine and speaks Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish and French. Her doctoral dissertation was on literacy education for heritage learners of Russian. She created heritage and non-heritage tracks for Russian and initiated distance and in-person blended Russian courses at Stony Brook.
The moment she finds most rewarding is when non-heritage learners are fascinated to discover their intuitive knowledge in their own mother language, English, through learning Russian, and when heritage learners are fascinated by their ability to make logical sense of the language they grew up hearing. She says:
"Learning a language can be like learning science as an academic subject, but it can also be like learning music as a performance. You need to engage both your brain and practical skills to communicate in Russian."
From an interview by Eriko Sato, October 20, 2023
- Second Language Acquisition
- Heritage Learner Pedagogy
- Methodology of Online Instruction
- Linguistic Analysis and Natural Language Processing
- Cinema and Cultural Studies
- Intellectual Games