Materials used in Russian instruction in the United States and Canada are presented in four alphabetically arranged lists, for first through fourth year instruction. A list of participating institutions follows. A number key indicates which materials each institution is using. (RM)

Suggests that Russian should be taught largely by reading, rather than through grammar and vocabulary drills. Real reading materials should be used, rather than texts, and grammar should be dealt with through readings concisely and conceptually. Speaking skills can be practiced in many non-classroom situations and in class. (CHK)

Adapted from a banquet address delivered to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages on December 29, 1970, in New York, New York. (DS)

An audio-visual course in Russian culture is given at Northern Illinois University. A collection of 4-5,000 color slides is the basis for the course, with lectures focussed on literature, philosophy, religion, politics, art and crafts. Acquisition, classification, storage and presentation of slides, and organization of lectures are discussed. (CHK)

The family unit and home domain have been and remain important in heritage language maintenance efforts. There are complex relationships between parental language attitudes, their application in everyday language management activities and the children's knowledge of home language vocabulary. The present large-scale study examined the family policy…

THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND IDEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE SOVIET LANGUAGE PROGRAM ARE DESCRIBED, AND THE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENTS RESULTING FROM THE PROGRAM ARE DISCUSSED UNDER THESE HEADINGS--(1) SOVIET LANGUAGE THEORY, (2) SOVIET LANGUAGE POLICIES, (3) DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, (4) DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET MINORITY…

Written in Russian, the article first notes common mistakes made by students of Russian and points out the dearth of synonym- and phraseological dictionaries of Russian. It then discusses 15 instances of synonymy. An alphabetical index of the 36 sample words is provided. (JH)

Reviews the historical development of the "Ozegov" dictionary. This dictionary blazed a trail in describing the structure and lexicon of modern standard Russian and played a key role in completing the standardization of Russian. The 1992 edition has progressed in coping with changes in the lexicon of Russia brought about by political,…

Our previous research showed that Russian children commit fewer gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns than with their simplex counterparts. Experiment 1 replicates this finding with Russian children (N=24, mean 3;7, range 2;10-4;6). Gender agreement was recorded from adjective usage as children described animal pictures given just their…

This paper focuses on the temporal and modal meanings associated with root infinitives (RIs) and other non-finite clauses in several typologically diverse languages--English, Russian, Greek and Dutch. I discuss the role that event structure, aspect, and modality play in the interpretation of these clauses. The basic hypothesis is that in the…

This study examined whether singular/plural marking in a language helps children learn the meanings of the words "one," "two," and "three." First, CHILDES data in English, Russian (which marks singular/plural), and Japanese (which does not) were compared for frequency, variability, and contexts of number-word use.…

The outbreak of the First World War and the emergence of Russia as Britain's "glorious ally" swiftly changed public attitudes in Britain, which had been largely, but not entirely, hostile to Russia. The sense that Britain needed to cure its 'abysmal ignorance' of Russia, coupled with the strong desire to replace Germany, the enemy, as a…