200:(ACTR), which would later become American Councils for International Education. The membership organization sponsored many activities associated with Russian language study, including efforts to expand existing scholarly and student exchanges in language and area studies between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Over the years, American Councils has expanded from a small membership organization with a single graduate exchange program to a well-known federally funded exchange organization that operates in over 80 countries, focusing on the instruction of critical languages and academic exchange with less commonly studied world regions and cultures.
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224:(Kyrgyzstan), the first independent, merit-based university admissions testing program in the former Soviet space. He also served as Vice President of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL) from 1994 to the present and Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors of the
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Davidson has authored thirteen books and more than 60 academic articles, including a twenty-year longitudinal study of adult second language acquisition during study abroad. Davidson co-authored the
Russian: Stage One textbook series, the first collaborative Soviet-American Russian language textbook,
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Davidson's comparison of the face-to-face and "virtual immersion" on the linguistic and cultural growth of young adult
English-speaking learners of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, co-authored with Nadra Garas, âWhat Makes Study Abroad Transformative? Comparing Linguistic and Cultural Contacts and
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Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia. The May 2012 hearing, titled "A National Security Crisis: Foreign Language Capabilities in the Federal Government," identified a shortage of personnel qualified to fill language-designated
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positions in key government agencies and offered strategies for increasing the number of Americans possessing advanced proficiency in both language and regional knowledge.
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Davidson, Dan E. (2021). "Ensuring US National Capacity in World Languages and Cultures for the Twenty-First Century: More Learners, More Languages, Better Results!".
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462:"Comparing Heritage and NonâHeritage Learning Outcomes and TargetâLanguage Utilization in the Overseas Immersion Context: A Preliminary Study of the Russian Flagship"
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Davidson, Dan E., Garas. Nadra (2021). âTransformative Language Learning in the Overseas Immersion Environment: Exploring Affordances of Intercultural Development,
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454:"The Overseas Immersion Setting as Contextual Variable in Adult SLA: Learner Behaviors Associated with Language Gain to Level-ââ3 Proficiency in Russian,"
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Carl Beck Papers in Russian and Eastern European Studies.
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Davidson, Dan E.; Gor, Kira S.; Lekic, Maria D. (2009).
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