Describes, evaluates, and suggests possible improvements in Russian language and literature instruction in Soviet elementary and secondary schools. Recommends combining curriculum materials developed by the Ministry of Education in Moscow with materials of local origin in order to increase student interest. (Author/DB)

Research efforts designed to improve Russian language instruction are described. (DE)

The improvement of the teacher training of Russian language instructors is emphasized. (DE)

The leading article of the 1974 volume of this periodical reflects the development of the "general education" school in the USSR and the position of Russian in the ethnic schools. Various articles deal with problems of lexicography and teacher training for the ethnic schools. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The role of the teacher in improving Russian language instruction is emphasized. (DE)

Russian language instruction in the Soviet province of Uzbek is described. (DE)

Russian language instruction in the non-Russian schools of the Soviet Union is described. (DE)

Russian language instruction in the Soviet province of Armenia is described. (DE)

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the draft of new elementary school programs in Russian language, arithmetic, and natural history. Elementary Russian courses are regarded as an organic part of the entire course at the eight-year school. Such courses as phonetics and morphology figure in the draft program…

This paper focuses on certain difficulties which arise when the first language culture is described in terms of the second language culture, in particular, when an attempt is made to describe Russian culture in English. (CFM)

This article discusses the reality and benefits of language study programs in the Soviet Union for American students as compared to the expectations of teachers and students. Specific problems concern the areas of phonetics, grammar and conversation. (CLK)

Developing learning-teaching procedures is only possible if one knows the internal processes to be formed. Two 'psycho-logical' models and activity algorithms for foreign language teaching are discussed. Construction of such operational models for grammatical action has a high diagnostic value for research and development in FL teaching. See FL…

The Soviet Union (USSR) is an immense multinational and multilingual country. At the time of the Revolution (1917) there were 150 national languages spoken in the USSR and 180 recognized linguistic groups, however, 70% of the total population of the USSR was illiterate and the literacy rate of the Middle Asia varied from 1% to 5%. After 1917, mass…

In comparing the teaching of English in the Soviet Union and in Puerto Rico, the author notes that English language instruction in the Soviet Union is characterized by well-trained teachers, good facilities, and an emphasis on practical phonetics, although writing skills are not up to contemporary standards. People are avid and enthusiastic…

This report of the first conference on foreign-language and language-teaching institutes, held in Bochum, Germany in 1970, contains articles on the following topics: (1) foreign-language education in the Soviet Union, (2) a working plan for programed Russian study, (3) foreign-language teaching and recent linguistic recommendations, (4) conditions…