Izolda (Iza) Savenkova

Izolda (Iza) Savenkova is is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics and Language Education program at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ of Maryland, College Park. She holds a Master’s Degree in Second Language Acquisition with a specialization in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language from Lomonosov Moscow State ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Her research interests include second language acquisition, world language teaching and learning, implementing DEIA in the Russian language classroom, and experiences of multilingual learners (MLs) with disabilities. She is also a co-author (with Alyssa DeBlasio, Dickinson College) of the student-centered, inquiry-based textbook Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media (Georgetown ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Press, 2022), designed to build Advanced-level Russian proficiency. Prior to joining the PhD program at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she taught all levels of Russian at Dickinson College (PA) and Columbia ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (NY). Since 2018, she has served as a regular summer faculty member at the Middlebury College Kathryn Davis School of Russian.

Please feel free to reach out if you see a possibility to work on any projects together: isavenko@umd.edu