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Fitzgibbons, Natalia Viktorovna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates licensing conditions of dependent indefinite pronouns, such as negative concord items and pronouns that depend on the presence of a c-commanding quantifier. In Chapter 2, I examine freestanding negative concord items in Russian. I provide a novel empirical generalization that freestanding negative concord items…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphemes, Russian, Form Classes (Languages)
Danilov, A. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
The public has always had a keen interest in textbooks on history. Despite all the differences among textbooks on national histories, most countries have a similar focus: the task of shaping the new generations' positive image of their own people in its long or short history, while not disregarding any sinister, dark, at times frightful pages of…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Russian
Lazdina, Sanita – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper deals with current questions in revitalizing the regional language Latgalian, one of the varieties native to Latgale, a region located in the eastern part of Latvia. It first provides an overview of domains where Latgalian is used and highlights recent changes in these. Based on linguistic landscape data as well as interviews with…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
Aronin, Larissa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
Affectivity is an important dimension in humans' social and individual lives. It is either a stimulating or hindering aspect of language learning. This article aims to draw attention to material culture as a powerful, but mostly neglected source of data on the use and acquisition of languages, and demonstrates the close and intricate links between…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Affective Behavior, Second Language Learning, Correlation
Abramova, Inna – Multicultural Education, 2012
Researchers have explored the experiences of minority teachers (Irvine, 2003) and racial minority immigrant teachers in the context of schooling and curriculum development (Subedi, 2008). Many studies on immigrant teachers have focused on problems regarding their adjustment to the new culture and the construction of their identities; fewer…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Teaching Methods, Minority Group Teachers, Curriculum Development
Alexieva, Petia Dimitrova – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the process of acquisition of semantic classes of reflexive verbs (RVs) in Russian by L2 learners with a native language English. The purpose of this study is to bridge the gap between current linguistic knowledge and the pedagogical literature existing in English on reflexives in Russian. RVs are taught partially and…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Verbs
Baugher, Mark W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The dissertation outlines a framework for understanding variation in ultimate attainment and syntactic structure in second language acquisition by positing a distinction between competence-based and generalized learning processes. Within this framework, competence-based learning is theorized to employ inductive learning processes to acquire a…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes, Adolescents
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Parents' assessment of children's development in the first and the second language is an essential part of their family language policy (FLP) and an important component of parent-child communication. This paper presents a pilot study focused on Russian-speaking immigrant parents' assessment of their children's language knowledge in Russian as a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Preschool Education, Second Language Learning
Azimova, Nigora; Johnston, Bill – Modern Language Journal, 2012
Using the 2 theoretical lenses of representation (Barthes, 1977) and ownership of language (Higgins, 2003), this article offers a critical analysis of representations of Russian speakers in 9 widely used Russian language textbooks aimed at university-level learners. Particular attention is paid to representations of Russian speakers other than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criticism, Ownership, French
Comer, William J. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
This descriptive study examines when and how students use Russian-English dictionaries while reading informational texts in Russian and what success they have with word lookup. The study uses introspective verbal protocols (i.e., think-alouds) to follow how readers construct meaning from two texts while reading them for a limited time first…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Russian, English, Second Language Programs
Nikitina, Larisa – Online Submission, 2011
Theatrical activities are widely used by language educators to promote and facilitate language learning. Involving students in production of their own video or a short movie in the target language allows a seamless fusion of language learning, art, and popular culture. The activity is also conducive for creating an authentic learning situation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Russian, Student Projects
Westbrook, Frances – English Teaching Forum, 2011
Most language teachers become teachers because they are fascinated by language. They like the way languages work, they are intrigued by differences between their native tongues and other languages, and they enjoy the process of helping their students learn. Most language teachers have had positive experiences as language students themselves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Russian, Learning Experience
Schwartz, Mila; Shaul, Yehudit – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
The development of script schema, as a source of narrative knowledge, is an essential stage in this knowledge construction. This study focused on the role of bilingual versus monolingual preschool education in the development of script schema knowledge in Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among Russian/Hebrew-speaking children in Israel. The preschool…
Descriptors: Minority Group Children, Preschool Education, Bilingual Education, Semitic Languages
Dubin, Boris – Russian Education and Society, 2012
In this commentary, the author stresses that reading habits in Russia have changed since the Soviet era, and the more intellectual journals and magazines in particular have lost their importance. Audiences for books and magazines have fragmented, and there are fewer sources of commonly shared information and ideas than was true a few decades ago.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Age Differences, Periodicals
Chevalier, Joan F. – Heritage Language Journal, 2012
Subtractive bilingualism is widespread throughout Siberia, with indigenous youth often more proficient in Russian than in their non-Russian local languages. Siberia's national schools, which are secondary schools offering instruction in local languages of Russia, provide critical institutional support for minority languages. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Russian