Although research illustrates the benefits of biliteracy, most bilingual students will not have access to a bilingual education program in which they receive official instruction in all their languages. However, the English language arts can become a space where any teacher can support students' biliteracy through purposeful curricular,…

Drawing upon video recordings from two fifth-grade Ukrainian classrooms and interviews with children four years later, this paper examines these classrooms as sites for socializing learners into an "imagined community" of Ukrainian speakers, the extent to which children took up identities as members of this community, and the potential…

Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers' agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic…

In Ukraine, the Russian and Ukrainian languages have historically alternated in policy and practice in their official status and social prestige. As in many areas of the world, English is emerging in Ukraine as a language of economic value, social prestige, and education though it is not a language of wider communication. The goal of the research…

The system of education developed by Maria Montessori, noted Italian feminist, anthropologist and physician, is the single largest pedagogy in the world with over 22,000 public, private, parochial, and charter schools on six continents, enduring even as other teaching methods have waxed and waned. Despite its international diffusion and longevity,…

As part of a larger summative evaluation of a foreign language department and a two-year foreign language core competency, the researcher investigated fourth-semester student self-efficacy (a person's belief, rooted in experience, that they can do something) and future expectancy of second language use. In effect, this was also an evaluation of…

This article presents a number of methods, including context-related activities, board games, and filler exercises, developed in the Russian classroom, designed for stimulating vocabulary learning and retention. (43 references) (JL)

Critizes pure audiolingual methodology in the teaching of Russian, offering alternatives of a more traditional nature. It is felt, in particular, that there is a place for limited use of the students' native language for explanatory purposes and linguistic analysis. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Advocates the use of good teaching practices in Russian language teaching. Specific recommendations are made regarding class preparation, motivation, and pattern drills. Attention is called to bad practices that are to be avoided. (AM)

This article suggests that to better prepare students for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) oral proficiency interview, it is up to instructors to see that these students are better prepared in oral, creative speech. Bridging exercises between dialogue memorization and personalized situations can be used to help…

Offers tips on classroom techniques aimed at maintaining motivation among students while meeting their varied needs and fulfilling the requirements of an intermediate Russian course. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Examines the general challenge of proficiency-oriented methodology as applied specifically to beginning Russian-as-a-Second-Language teaching. (Author/OD)

Criticizes current theory in the GDR, which sees three stages in FL learning: acquisition, solidifying, automatizing. Steps 1 and 3 need modifying. This is shown in the threefold division of a class hour ("Development of oral practice through variation of a dialog"). (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A technique for rapid teaching of the Cyrillic alphabet uses a five-phase mnemonic strategy: attending to the materials, developing connections in class, practicing recall, using the information memorized as a basis for acquiring new information, and testing recall over time. The technique is based on current theories of information processing.…

A study investigated the use of teasing as a teaching technique in a first-year college-level Russian class at a major university in California. The instructor is a native Russian speaker, and the class consisted of nine undergraduate students. A review of literature on teasing reveals its dual nature for conveying both a literal message of insult…