Examined the oral performance of midcourse and endcourse adult American learners of Russian to determine the accuracy order of Russian cases and demonstrated an order of accuracy common to both groups. According to decreasing accuracy, the Russian cases cluster in three rank orders: (1) prepositional and accusative; (2) genitive and instrumental;…

Analyzes the problems involved in teaching Russian verbal aspect to English speakers, and suggests an explanation of the problem of achieving bilingualism through use of C.S. Peirce's trichotomy of interpretants: emotional, energetic, logical. Peirce's classification of signs and interpretants is used to define learning strategies employed by L2…

The results of this study indicate that the degree of pronunciation difficulty of Russian words is a more important factor than function (form class) properties of English response items in facilitating or retarding learning of Russian-English vocabulary pairs. (FWB)