A 16-page, four-color-on-newsprint magazine, "Krokodil" is among the world's most popular magazines of humor and satire. As a product of the Pravda Publishing House, it is produced by a branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, yet there are no official taboos or guidelines. Connections, popularity, and profits give…

Examines four approaches to teaching Russian literature in translation and offers suggestions from the most successful programs to help in establishing, developing, or improving similar programs at other educational institutions. (EKN)

In the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cadre problems in Russian science gradually came to be included among the problems that are the most pressing and whose solutions need to be given top priority. The mass exodus of young and middle-aged qualified specialists from scientific research institutes, design bureaus, and scientific…

This study introduces a typological model of the "conceptual language-specific approach" to the L2 research on the acquisition of tense-aspect. The model is based on the typological notion of prominence, classifying languages into tense-prominent and aspect-prominent (Bhat 1999) and the L1 research proposal that language-specific…

The purpose of this study was to compare the parent/child interactions between Russian immigrant and non-immigrant families in a rural Missouri school setting. A questionnaire was administered to 30 American families and 30 Russian immigrant families. Data concerning developmental level upon kindergarten entry were gathered from kindergarten…

Version of a paper read at the University of Chicago on April 24, 1970. (DS)

SUPPES' 1963 MODEL WITH TWO PROCESSES, LEARNING AND FORGETTING, WAS USED IN AN ATTEMPT TO PREDICT THE OPTIMAL "LESSON SIZE" FOR TEACHING A LIST OF INDEPENDENT ITEMS. THE EXPERIMENT REPORTED IN THIS DOCUMENT WAS A TEST OF THIS PREDICTION IN A RUSSIAN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY LEARNING SETTING. (LP)

Uses several examples to show a strong connection between the notion of transitivity and Russian aspect. The notion of interplay of pragmatic and objective features of transitivity has often been implicitly in definitions of Russian aspect but never sufficiently clarified. (Author/BK)

The Russian device for distinguishing between mass words and count words by forming singulatives through suffixation is studied. (PMJ)

Peter I's editorial policy appears as a starting point in the birth of secular Russian textbooks. Since the printing production was then organized on a massive scale as a response to the needs of European-like modernization, it should be safely suggested that nearly "all" books produced during this pioneering period focused teaching…

This paper defines and provides examples of a category of linguistic minorities that we call extrinsic minorities. Three case studies are summarised to illustrate the spectrum of linguistic heterogeneity of extrinsic minorities, and the linguistic consequences. These cases show a continuum of how they fit into our definition of extrinsic…

Discusses the 1974 volume of the Polish periodical for teachers of Russian entitled "Jezyk Rosyjski." Leading articles survey the development of the teaching of Russian in Poland. Other articles deal with language teaching, language usage, "landeskunde" (country, customs, culture), and literary topics. (Text is in German.)…