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