Preparing Russian Teachers for the 21st Century. July 11-22, 2011 at the University of Washington The STARTALK Teacher Program, Preparing Russian Teachers for the 21st Century, aims to enroll ten or more teachers who are working toward obtaining a P-12 World Language Endorsement in Russian for teaching Russian language in Washington K-12 public schools. The [...]
Advancing in Russian Through Narration by Aneta Pavlenko and Viktoria Driagina CALPER Publications 2008 More information: http://calper.la.psu.edu/publication.php?page=artn
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received an award of $1 million from the National Security Education Program to establish an undergraduate Russian Flagship Center.
The Middlebury College Summer Language Schools announces the Kathryn Davis Fellowships: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages. These fellowships, endowed by Kathryn Davis, fund the cost of tuition, room, board for individuals to study in the Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese or Russian Schools at Middlebury College for the summer of 2010. Middlebury will [...]
Advancing in Russian Through Through Narration by Aneta Pavlenko and Victoria Driagina is a new CALPER publication for teachers of Russian. The book focuses on two important aspects of advanced language proficiency, namely narrative and conceptual proficiency. Narrative proficiency refers to the ability to tell narratives that are similar to those of native speakers of [...]