Pavlenko arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1990, having escaped Ukraine due to anti-Semitic discrimination and the fear of a pogrom.
[2] She has written numerous articles and books about multilingualism in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.
She was president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics from 2014–15.
Pavlenko won the 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research, and the British Association for Applied Linguistics 2006 Best Book of the Year Award for her book Emotions and Multilingualism.
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