List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The State of the Profession 1. Language Education in the United States: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Aline Germain-Rutherford 2. Looking Back, Moving Forward: Teaching and Learning Russian in the United States in the Post-Soviet Era Cynthia L. Martin 3. Russian Programs in the 21st-Century University: Preparing for the Future Angelika Kraemer, Jason Merrill, and David Prestel 4. Russian Language Readiness in Graduate Teaching Assistants: Implications for Teaching and Learning 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: World-Readiness Standards and the Teaching of Russian Language and Culture Thomas J. Garza 6. The Goals of Collegiate Learners of Russian and the US Standards for Learning Languages 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 Betty Lou Leaver and Christine Campbell 8. Reconceptualizing Grammar Instruction: Making It Meaningful and Communicative William J. Comer 9. Content, Language, and Task in Advanced Russian Lynne deBenedette 10. Oral History in the Russian Language Curriculum: A Transformative Learning Experience Benjamin Jens, Colleen Lucey, and Benjamin Rifkin 11. Language and Cultural Learning through Song: Three Complementary Contexts Karen Evans-Romaine, Stuart Goldberg, Susan Kresin, and Vicki Galloway Part IV. Curriculum and Materials Development 12. Developing a Textbook: A Framework and Reflections Olga E. Kagan and Anna S. Kudyma 13. Addressing the Representation of Diversity in Russian Language Textbooks Rachel Stauffer 14. Corpus Linguistics and Russian Language Pedagogy Olesya Kisselev and Edie Furniss Part V. Teaching Culture 15. Developing Intercultural Competence in a Russian Language Class Ekaterina Nemtchinova 16. The Literary Canon and Precedent Texts in Teaching Russian Language and Culture at the Intermediate Level Tatiana 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 Learning Shannon Spasova and Kristen Welsh 19. Research-Based Internet Writing Projects in the Russian Curriculum Cori Anderson and Irina Walsh Editors List of Contributors Index
