It is argued that mastery of verbal aspect in Russian calls for the development in the student of a novel pattern of linguistic perception for actions and occurrences. (Author/RM)

Problems encountered by Russian language students caused by noncorrespondence of meaning are described. It is argued that many of the difficulties which students encounter in learning vocabulary result from semantic shifts within Russian. (RM)

Discusses, using examples, problems raised by differences in meaning between "equivalent" Russian and German words. Calls for clear definitions of Russian basic vocabulary words. (Text is in German and Russian.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the teaching of Russian aspect in terms of the use of the perfective and the social ramifications and perceptions conveyed by its use. The student must be made aware of the importance of implications of statements in Russian. (CHK)

Problems and methods of teaching practical stylistics to students of Russian are discussed. (RM)

The article explores syntactic and semantic aspects of the use of the Russian reflexive-possessive pronoun "svoj" versus the various other possessive pronouns. Examples drawn from literary texts and contemporary speech serve as the basis for comparison and analysis. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Article based on the author's dissertation (Georgetown University, 1970). (DS)

Elementary Russian textbooks are criticized generally as failing to supply sufficient specific syntactical information. A method for teaching sentence subordination is described. (RM)

Helpful factors in acquiring passive vocabulary are: word-building laws, international words, and genetic similarities. Another is "meaning variants" of the foreign words, derived by processes analogous to those of the native tongue. This supports the validity of reading knowledge as an early goal. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Rules governing formulation of the embedded tense in Russian are explained and their importance to beginning students of Russian discussed. (RM)