Presentations

  • Measuring phonological vocabulary size: A pilot study. (Hacking & Tschirner). ACTFL. Washington DC. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/23/2019.
  • Introducing language teachers to learner corpora: The development of online tutorials for pedagogic uses of the MuSSeL corpus (Schnur, Rubio, Hacking). 5th International Learner Corpus Research Conference, University of Warsaw. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/2019.
  • "Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition" School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield, UK. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/13/2019.
  • L2 sibilants in the speech of American learners of Russian. An acoustic analysis. (Ćavar, Hacking). Slavic Linguistics Society 13th Annual Meeting. Eugene, OR. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/2018.
  • Relating vocabulary size to ACTFL proficiency levels. (Tschirner, Hacking, Rubio). ACTFL, Nashville. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/2017.
  • Mission and achievement: Assessing Higher Education foreign language goals. (Soneson, Gass, Hacking, Malone, Tschirner, Winke). ACTFL, Nashville. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/2017.
  • The relationship between ACTFL proficiency levels and vocabulary size in German, Russian and Spanish. (Tschirner, Hacking, Rubio). ECOLT, Georgetown University. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/2017.
  • Russia and Asia: Expanding Russian program curriculum eastwards. Poster in session: New Developments and Innovations in Slavic Studies. Canadian Association of Slavists, Toronto, Canada. Poster, Presented, 05/2017.
  • How to be a better language learner: What cognitive science tells us. 28th Annual Language Conference. 300th Military Intelligence Brigade. Draper, Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2017.
  • The proficiency profile of foreign language university students. MLA. Philadelphia. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/2017.
  • Large-scale implementation of ACTFL computerized proficiency testing (with Tschirner, Gass, Malone, Sonenson, Winke & Rubio). ACTFL. Boston. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 11/2016.
  • Correlations between speaking, listening, and reading proficiency scores. (With Tschirner, Gass, Winke, Sonenson & Rubio). ECOLT. Georgetown University. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/2016.
  • Pedagogical practice and the acquisition of Russian stress: Does writing stress marks help? (with Elisabeth Elliott, Northwestern University) Slavic Linguistics Society 11th Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/24/2016.
  • Utilizing electropalatography to train palatalized versus unpalatalized consonant productions by native speakers of American English learning Russian. New Sounds International Conference. Aarhus, Denmark. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/2016.
  • What is the reality of proficiency-based articulation at the post-secondary level? (with Fernando Rubio), American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2016.
  • Reading and Listening Proficiency Levels of College Undergraduates. ACTFL. San Diego. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/21/2015.
  • 'Polishness’ in British crime fiction: The linguistic landscape of Anya Lipska’s Where The Devil May Go. Canadian Association of Slavists, Ottawa, Canada. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/2015.
  • Poles and Polishness in British Crime Fiction British Association for Slavic and East European Studies Cambridge, UK. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2015.
  • Russian palatalized consonants: Acoustic properties of L2 learners' productions Second Language Acquisition of Phonology Conference York University. Poster, Presented, 07/06/2012.
  • Variability in Listeners’ Bases for Accentedness Judgments of L2 Speech. Second Language Research Forum, Iowa State University. Poster, Presented, 10/2011.
  • Global Studies and Departmental Structures ADFL Summer Seminar, June 2011. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/25/2011.
  • Word Final Devoicing in the Speech of American Learners of Russian, AATSEEL, Los Angeles, 2011. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/2011.
  • The Culture of Language: Figuring Out How To Do Things With Words. Critical Language Institute, Arizona State University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/22/2010.
  • Teaching Sociopragmatic Competence From the Very Beginning. Critical Language Institute, Arizona State University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/21/2010.
  • The production of palatalized and unpalatalized consonants in Russian by American Learners New Sounds International Conference, Poznan, Poland. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/03/2010.
  • The Job Search in Foreign Languages, A Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers: MLA, Philadelphia. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/2009.
  • Development and Fund-Raising for Foreign Language Department Chairs, MLA, Philadelphia, 2009. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/2009.
  • How Departments Can Thrive in Difficult Times, MLA, Philadelphia, 2009. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/2009.
  • The Production of Palatalized and Unpalatalized Consonants in Russian by Advanced American Learners of Russian, Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Zadar, Croatia. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/06/2009.

Research Groups

  • L2TReC Research Roundtable, Research Professor. 09/2017 - present.
  • Utah Dual Language Immersion Data Research Group, Research Professor. 12/01/2015 - 05/31/2016.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • Electropalatography and Russian Palatalization. PI: Jane Hacking. Co-PI(s): Bruce Smith. College of Humanities: International & Interdisciplinary Research Grant, 10/15/2010 - 12/01/2014. Total project budget to date: $5,910.00

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Russian Federation
  • The Republic of North Macedonia

Publications

  • Winke, P, Zhang, X., Rubio, F., Gass, S., Sonenson, D. & Hacking, J. (2020). The proficiency profiles of language students: Implications for programs. Second Language Research & Practice. Second Language Research and Practice. Vol. 1, 25-64. Published, 10/2020.
  • Hacking, Jane F., Romaniello, Matthew P. & Hardy, Jeffrey S. (2020). Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, Realities. Routledge. Published, 07/2020.
  • Jane F. Hacking, Jeffrey S. Hardy & Matthew P. Romaniello (2020). Asia in the Russian Imagination. Vol. 19. Sibirica. Published, 03/2020.
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  • Hacking, Jane F. & Dyer, Donald, L. (2019). CHEKAJ: Papers for Christina E. Kramer on the Occasion of Her Retirement. Vol. 31:2. Balkanistica. Published, 04/2019.
  • Hacking, Jane F. (2019). Utah’s Russian Dual Language Immersion Program: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century Language Education, 95-108. Balkanistica. Vol. 32:2. Published, 04/2019.
  • Rubio F. & Hacking, J. (2019). Rubio, F., Hacking, J. (2019). Proficiency vs. performance: what do the tests show? In Gass, S. & Winke, P. (eds.), Foreign language proficiency in higher education: Curricular and assessment issues. (pp. 137-152). Berlin/New York: Springer. . Springer. Published, 02/2019.
  • Hacking, J., Rubio, F. & Tschirner, E. (2019). Vocabulary size, reading proficiency and curricular design: The case of college Chinese, German, Russian and Spanish. In Gass, S. & Winke, P. (Eds.), Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education: Curricular and assessment issues. (pp. 25-44). Berlin/New York: Springer. Published, 02/2019.
  • Hacking, Jane F. & Tschirner, Erwin. The contribution of vocabulary knowledge to reading proficiency: The case of college Russian. Foreign Language Annals 50(3), 500-518. Published, 09/2017.
  • Rubio, F., Landes-Lee, J. & Hacking, J. (2017). Behind One Successful High-School-Higher Education Partnership. [Website/Blog] URL http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2017/06/_successful_high_schoolhigher_education_partnerships_the_utah_world_language_example.html. Published, 06/2017.
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  • Hacking, Jane F., Smith, Bruce L., & Johnson, Eric, M. (2017). Utilizing electropalatography to train palatalized versus unpalatalized consonant productions by native speakers of American English learning Russian. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3(1), 9-33. Published, 03/2017.
  • Hacking, Jane & Rubio, Fernando. (2016). A proficiency based articulation project between post secondary institutions. In Urlaub, P. & Watzinger-Tharp, J. (Eds.), The Interconnected Language Curriculum: Critical Transitions and Interfaces in Articulated K-16 Contexts. Boston: Cenage/Heinle. Book Chapter. Published, 11/2016.
  • Hacking, Jane, Smith, Bruce, Nissen, Shawn & Allen, Hannah. (2016). Russian palatalized and unpalatalized coda consonants: An electropalatographic and acoustic analysis of native speaker and learner productions. Journal of Phonetics 54, 98-108. Published, 01/2016.
  • Hayes-Harb, Rachel & Hacking, Jane. (2015). The influence of written stress marks on native English speakers' acquisition of Russian lexical stress contrasts. Slavic and East European Journal, 59:1, 91-109. Published, 04/2015.
  • Hayes-Harb, Rachel & Hacking, Jane. (2015). Individual listener differences in explicit bases for accentedness judgments. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 1(1), 43-64. Published, 04/2015.
  • Hacking, Jane. (2013). Global studies and departmental structures. ADFL Bulletin 42 (2), 21-25. Published, 06/2013.
  • Hacking, Jane. (2011). The production of palatalized and unpalatalized consonants in Russian by American learners, in (Eds. Magdalena Wrembel, Małgorzata Kul, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk), Achievements and perspectives in the acquisition of second language speech: New Sounds 2011 (pp. 93-101). Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Published, 05/2011.
  • Hacking, Jane. (2008). Socio-pragmatic competence in Russian: How input Is not enough. In Katz & Watzinger-Tharp, (Eds.) Conceptions of L2 Grammar: Theoretical Approaches and their Application in the L2 Classrooom, AAUSC: 110-125. Published, 10/2008.