Acting Instructor of Latvian
Biography
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Latvia, 2015
M.A. Language Pedagogy, Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, 2009
Research
Selected Research
- Burr, S. (2023). Learning a foreign language and locality through an animated documentary film. Language Learning & Technology, 27(2), 199–225. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73509 Download PDF
- Burr, S., Griķe, A.E., Krieviņa, K. (2022). Look at the graves!: Cemeteries as Guided Tourism Destinations in Latvia. In: Tara Thomson, Anne Schwan (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook on Digital and Public Humanities, 459-477
- Pošeiko, S. (2018). Glocal Names in the Linguistic Landscape of the Baltic States. In: Multilingualism in the Baltic States: Social Discourses and Contact Phenomena (eds., S.Lazdiņa, H.F. Marten). Palgrave macmillan. pp. 369 - 405.
- Pošeiko, S. (2018). “Following footsteps of names”: Commercial Ergonymia in Linguistic Landscape of the Baltic Countries. In: Cotticelli Kurras, P., Alfredo Rizza, A. (eds., 2018). Language, Media and Economy in Virtual and Real Life. New perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 99–122.
- Pošeiko, S. (2018). The Linguistic Landscape as a Tool for Mastering and Improving Pragmatic Competence. In: Laiveniece, D. (ed.). Problems of and Perspectives on Language Acquisition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 254–265.
- Pošeiko, S. (2016). Images of Women in the Semiotic Landscape of the Baltic states. Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica. Rethinking genders, rethinking migration. Vol.17. No 3. pp. 111–128.
- Pošeiko, S. (2015). The Latvian language in the Linguistic Landscape of Daugavpils (The middle of the 19th century – nowadays). Journal of Education, Culture and Society 2. pp. 320–336.
- Pošeiko, Solvita (2015). Valodas un to funkcionalitāte publiskajā telpā: lingvistiskā ainava Baltijas valstīs.// Language and its functionality in the urban public space: Linguistic landscape of the Baltic states. Riga: LU. https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/31349
- Marten, H.F., Lazdiņa, S., Pošeiko, S., Murinska, S. (2012). Between Old and New Killer Languages? Linguistic Transformation, Lingua Francas and Languages of Tourism in the Baltic States. In: C. Hélot, M. Barni, R. Janssens & C. Bagna (eds.) Linguistic Landscapes, Multilingualism and Social Change . Peter Lang, pp. 289–309.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Additional Courses
LATV101 First year Latvian 1 (5 credits)
LATV111 First year Latvian 1 (3 credits)
https://scandinavian.washington.edu/courses/2018/autumn/latv/101/a