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THE ART OF TEACHING RUSSIAN This page intentionally left blank THE ART OF TEACHING RUSSIAN EVGENY DENGUB, IRINA DUBININA, and JASON MERRILL, Editors Georgetown University Press / Washington, DC © 2020 Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be repro- duced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy- ing and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The publisher is not responsible for third- party websites or their content. URL links were active at time of publication. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Dengub, Evgeny, editor. | Dubinina, Irina, editor. | Merrill, Jason, editor. Title: The art of teaching Russian / Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina, Jason Merrill, editors. Description: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019054590 (print) | LCCN 2019054591 (ebook) | ISBN 9781647120016 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781647120023 (paperback) | ISBN 9781647120030 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Russian language—Study and teaching—United States. | Russian philology—Study and teaching—United States. | Russia—Civilization—Study and teaching—United States. Classification: LCC PG2068.U5 A78 2020 (print) | LCC PG2068.U5 (ebook) | DDC 491.780071—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054590 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054591 Ó This book is printed on acid- free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. 21 20 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 First printing Printed in the United States of America Cover design by Jeremy John Parker To our mentors and students, from whom we have learned so much This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Part I. The State of the Profession 1 Language Education in the United States: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 3 Aline Germain- Rutherford 2 Looking Back, Moving Forward: Teaching and Learning Russian in the United States in the Post- Soviet Era 23 Cynthia L. Martin 3 Russian Programs in the 21st- Century University: Preparing for the Future 49 Angelika Kraemer, Jason Merrill, and David Prestel 4 Russian Language Readiness in Graduate Teaching Assistants: Implications for Teaching and Learning 72 Cori 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: The World- Readiness Standards and the Teaching of Russian Language and Culture 95 Thomas J. Garza 6 The Goals of Collegiate Learners of Russian and the US Standards for Learning Languages 120 Dianna 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 Teaching 147 Betty Lou Leaver and Christine Campbell 8 Reconceptualizing Grammar Instruction: Making It Meaningful and Communicative 163 William J. Comer 9 Content, Language, and Task in Advanced Russian 187 Lynne deBenedette vii viii Contents 10 Oral History in the Russian Language Curriculum: A Transformative Learning Experience 211 Benjamin Jens, Colleen Lucey, and Benjamin Rifkin 11 Language and Cultural Learning through Song: Three Complementary Contexts 231 Karen Evans- Romaine, Stuart H. Goldberg, Susan Kresin, and Vicki Galloway Part IV. Curriculum and Materials Development 12 Developing a Textbook: A Framework and Reflections 257 Olga E. Kagan and Anna S. Kudyma 13 Addressing the Representation of Diversity in Russian Language Textbooks 280 Rachel Stauffer 14 Corpus Linguistics and Russian Language Pedagogy 307 Olesya Kisselev and Edie Furniss Part V. Teaching Culture 15 Developing Intercultural Competence in a Russian Language Class 333 Ekaterina Nemtchinova 16 The Literary Canon and Precedent Texts in Teaching Russian Language and Culture at the Intermediate Level 359 Tatiana Smorodinska 17 Extracurricular Activities in Russian Language and Culture Programs: Challenges and Perspectives 377 Alla Epsteyn and Maia Solovieva Part VI. Teaching and Learning Russian with Technology 18 Mixing It Up with Blended Learning 405 Shannon Spasova and Kristen Welsh 19 Research- Based Internet Writing Projects in the Russian Curriculum 431 Cori Anderson and Irina Walsh Editors 455 List of Contributors 457 Index 465 ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURES 4.1 Proficiency Levels of Incoming Graduate Students 82 4.2 Grammar Exam Scores of Incoming Graduate Students 82 5.1 The Five Cs of Foreign Language Study 97 5.2 Sample Performance Indicators with Grade-Level Designation 99 5.3 Matrix of Level of Instruction and Proficiency Level 107 5.4 Learning Scenario for Grade 7 from Russian-Specific Standards 110 6.1 Importance of Goals to Students of Russian, across the Content Standards 129 6.2 Importance of Goals to Students of Russian, by the Five Cs 130 6.3 Importance of Standards to Students of Russian, by the 11 Content Standards 131 8.1 Comprehension Activity with a Form-M apping Element 171 8.2 Activity to Draw Attention to Form 172 8.3 Activity to Draw Attention to the Meaningfulness of Grammatical Form 173 8.4 Structure–Input 174 8.5 Information Gap Activity 175 8.6 Information Exchange Activity 176 8.7 Open- Ended Opinion Gap Activity 177 8.8 Written Output Activity 178 12.1 Criteria for Text Selection 265 14.1 Example of Concordance Lines Sorted by First Left 311 14.2 Example of Concordance Lines Sorted by First Right, First Left and Second Right 311 17.1 Perceived Trends Concerning Majors and Minors in Russian 383 17.2 On- Campus ECA Offerings 384 17.3 Off- Campus ECA Offerings 385 17.4 Off- Campus ECA Offerings by Institution Type 386 17.5 Is ECA Participation Required? 387 17.6 Degree of ECA Attendance Required by Faculty 388 17.7 Impact of ECAs on Student Learning 389 17.8 Faculty Satisfaction with Department ECA Offerings 390 17.9 Key ECA Challenges across Faculty 391 17.10 Key ECA Challenges across Institutions 391 17.11 Commonly Cited Suggestions for ECAs’ Improvements 392 TABLES 1.1 Critical Language Undergraduate and Graduate Course Enrollments for Entire United States 9 ix

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