Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook
Title | Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook PDF eBook |
Author | Svetlana V. Nuss |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2024-05-22 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1040017800 |
Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook. With the lightning pace of modern news, social media, and technology, textbooks quickly become outdated and as a response to these rapid changes, this edited volume showcases a wide range of approaches to teaching RFL with and beyond traditional textbooks. The reader will find many creative ideas and solid practical advice from colleagues who have experimented with task- based language teaching, corpus-based learning, drama-based pedagogy, community-engaged pedagogy, and technology-mediated language learning, while incorporating authentic materials and turning them into living textbooks. The book will be a useful resource for Russian instructors and language departments interested in engaging their students with creative and unique courses.
The Art of Teaching Russian
Title | The Art of Teaching Russian PDF eBook |
Author | Evgeny Dengub |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1647120020 |
The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian-language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most important aspects of teaching the Russian language.
Russian for Beginners Large Print
Title | Russian for Beginners Large Print PDF eBook |
Author | Zoia Eliseyeva |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2016-07-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781535240550 |
This is an excellent Beginning Russian textbook supplied by the connection links to many UTube lectures of this fruitful multilingual educator, a native speaker of Russian. The book consists of 12 basic lectures, vocabulary, translation exercises with the keys, and has the world of UTube audio/video posts, where the author is singing, explaining, reading, teaching, enlightening the wide audience on a few European languages, and the big part of the lectures and translated songs is devoted to teaching about Russian language and culture. The book will have its Kindle alternative and e-device owners will be able to connect right away from the links in the book. The users of physical book can always enter a lecture title in a general internet search and use the book to their full benefit. The book is presented in a larger print for a convenience of people of all ages. Zoia Eliseyeva lives in USA for many years, and she has been published since 1996: her books are both Russian and multilingual. She is an educator with a Master's Degree, and, linguistically, she goes far beyond her initial trilingual concentration in English, Russian, Spanish. Open the world of a talented and devoted multilingual educator, and with that knowledge you will open your horizons to the more colorful ones. The book can be used by teachers, students, and everybody who is interested in Russian language and culture.
Belomor
Title | Belomor PDF eBook |
Author | Julie S. Draskoczy |
Publisher | Academic Studies PRess |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2019-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1618119346 |
Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning. Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.
Russian as a Heritage Language
Title | Russian as a Heritage Language PDF eBook |
Author | Olesya Kisselev |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2024-04-16 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1040003842 |
Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications brings together linguistically and pedagogically oriented research traditions in a comprehensive review of current Russian heritage language (HL) studies. Divided into three parts, the collection offers a variety of frameworks and approaches spanning research on HL speakers’ linguistic and pragmatic competence, literacy development, and sociocultural characteristics of Russian in diaspora. Presenting a wide range of new empirical findings, the volume explores topics at the forefront of HL studies, from assessment of HL learners’ linguistic competence and language attitudes to research on communities and institutional affordances impacting HL acquisition and maintenance. Each chapter connects current research with specific classroom applications, presenting Russian as a global language in various sociopolitical and majority-language contexts. Combining methodological rigor with theoretical insights across diverse areas of language study, Russian as a Heritage Language advances the field of HL pedagogy and serves as essential reading for HL educators and researchers as well as for linguists studying bilingualism.
Teaching Texts Today
Title | Teaching Texts Today PDF eBook |
Author | Annalise Serene Blech |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Russian language |
ISBN |
This dissertation examines the methodology behind using literature to teach Russian as a foreign language to intermediate level students. Due to the unpredictable trends in Russian student enrollment throughout the twentieth century, the development of a method to match student needs and encourage retention will benefit the field of Russian studies. To this end, this dissertation explores some of the past research regarding the role of the reading skill in foreign language classes. In addition, an examination of previous use of literature as a teaching tool in foreign language classrooms prompted development of possible materials for the Russian language. Based on the investigation of this research, current Russian language textbooks were analyzed in light of their inclusion of literary texts and overall methodological tenor. Following the textbook evaluations, a suggested methodology is elaborated for a textbook that integrates literary texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with exercises for Russian language development. Samples of proposed teaching materials and a proposed table of contents for a textbook of applied literature are presented. The proposed materials focus on twelve literary texts of five hundred words or less, chosen from among twentieth and twenty-first century works of Russian prose. The twelve texts span the length of the twentieth century with one text representing each decade and two for the first decade of the twenty-first century. Different Russian authors, some of whom intermediate students may recognize but most of whom will be unfamiliar, represent each decade. Several sample materials were then tested for their feasibility in a second-year, second-semester Russian language course. Student volunteers were solicited to comment on and work with the test materials, determining a baseline for the practicality and necessity of the materials. Suggestions for future research recognize the importance of expanding the study beyond a limited scope. Finally, the place of applied literature is examined in light of current global tendencies and academic developments.
Teaching the Violent Past
Title | Teaching the Violent Past PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth A. Cole |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780742551435 |
With the fate of humankind resting on their shoulders, the PATH team, along with the mortal Keepers and Guides around the world are sent on various quests. Each individual test will push them all to their limits as time slowly ticks down towards Armageddon and their destiny.