List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Part I. The State of the Profession
1. Language Education in the United States: Yesterday, Today, and
TomorrowAline Germain-Rutherford
2. Looking Back, Moving Forward: Teaching and Learning Russian in
the United States in the Post-Soviet EraCynthia L. Martin
3. Russian Programs in the 21st-Century University: Preparing for
the FutureAngelika Kraemer, Jason Merrill, and David Prestel
4. Russian Language Readiness in Graduate Teaching Assistants:
Implications for Teaching and LearningCori Anderson, Julia
Mikhailova, and Anna Tumarkin
Part II. The Teaching of Russian and the World-Readiness Standards
for Learning Languages
5. Making the Standards the Standard: World-Readiness Standards and
the Teaching of Russian Language and CultureThomas J. Garza
6. The Goals of Collegiate Learners of Russian and the US Standards
for Learning LanguagesDianna Murphy, Narek Sahakyan, and Sally
Sieloff Magnan
Part III. Approaches to Teaching Russian
7. The Shifting Paradigm in Russian Language Pedagogy: From
Communicative Language Teaching to Transformative Language Learning
and TeachingBetty Lou Leaver and Christine Campbell
8. Reconceptualizing Grammar Instruction: Making It Meaningful and
CommunicativeWilliam J. Comer
9. Content, Language, and Task in Advanced RussianLynne
deBenedette
10. Oral History in the Russian Language Curriculum: A
Transformative Learning ExperienceBenjamin Jens, Colleen Lucey, and
Benjamin Rifkin
11. Language and Cultural Learning through Song: Three
Complementary ContextsKaren Evans-Romaine, Stuart Goldberg, Susan
Kresin, and Vicki Galloway
Part IV. Curriculum and Materials Development
12. Developing a Textbook: A Framework and ReflectionsOlga E. Kagan
and Anna S. Kudyma
13. Addressing the Representation of Diversity in Russian Language
Textbooks Rachel Stauffer
14. Corpus Linguistics and Russian Language PedagogyOlesya Kisselev
and Edie Furniss
Part V. Teaching Culture
15. Developing Intercultural Competence in a Russian Language
ClassEkaterina Nemtchinova
16. The Literary Canon and Precedent Texts in Teaching Russian
Language and Culture at the Intermediate LevelTatiana
Smorodinska
17. Extracurricular Activities in Russian Language and Culture
Programs: Challenges and Perspectives Alla Epsteyn and Maia
Solovieva
Part VI. Teaching and Learning Russian with Technology
18. Mixing it Up with Blended LearningShannon Spasova and Kristen
Welsh
19. Research-Based Internet Writing Projects in the Russian
CurriculumCori Anderson and Irina Walsh
EditorsList of ContributorsIndex
A comprehensive guide to Russian-language instruction combining the latest research, pedagogy, and practice
Evgeny Dengub is a teaching professor of Russian and director of
the Russian Basic Language Program at the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles. He is coauthor of Panorama: Intermediate
Russian Language and Culture (Georgetown University Press,
2017).
Irina Dubinina is an associate professor of Russian at Brandeis
University, where she directs the Russian-language program. She is
coauthor of Rodnaya rech': An Introductory Course for Heritage
Learners of Russian (Georgetown University Press, 2019).
Jason Merrill is a professor of Russian at Michigan State
University and is the director of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis
School of Russian at Middlebury College. He is the coauthor of the
textbooks Russian Folktales: A Reader for Students of Russian and
Animation for Russian Conversation.
The Art of Teaching Russian: Research, Pedagogy, and Practice will
clearly be filling the existing gap and hopefully creating a bridge
to more data and research in the field as well as a development of
more innovative teaching materials, including textbooks for
different levels of proficiency and online programs with new
technologically mediated teaching methods. The book should also
facilitate the conversation about teaching and learning Russian
among Russian instructors and promote further research in the
field.
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