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Purcell, Sue – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Discusses the Graded Objectives for Adults Learning (GOLF) Russian program. The aim of the GOLF program is to have four levels, with Level Four being considered equivalent to a good GCSE pass, at which stage students will have a good working knowledge of the language and a wide vocabulary. (CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Foreign Countries

Gruneberg, Michael; Sykes, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Examines whether mnemonic strategies can be successfully applied to the learning of a non-Roman foreign-language alphabet. Students were given materials presenting Russian letters and their English sounds on each page. Beneath each letter was a mnemonic. Findings indicate that these strategies enhance the learning speed of non-Roman…
Descriptors: College Students, Cyrillic Alphabet, Data Analysis, Higher Education
Kaufman, Cathy C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Although Hungary's 1989 political transformation gave new credibility to existing policies, it did not necessarily translate into an understanding of participatory decision making or enthusiasm for school reform. Beyond the rhetoric are two dramatic curricular alterations: removal of the Marxist ideology infusing each discipline and elimination of…
Descriptors: Communism, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J. – Language Learning, 2005
This study investigated second-language (L2) learning to gain a better understanding of learning mechanisms that also operate in child first-language L1 learners. The research was inspired by research on the beneficial effects of child-directed speech CDS. We tried to examine whether such benefits can be observed in the domain of inflectional…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Russian, English, Nouns
Flynn, Suzanne; Foley, Claire; Vinnitskaya, Inna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
In this paper we argue that investigation of third language (L3) acquisition by adults and children provides essential new insights about the language learning process that neither the study of first language (L1) nor second language (L2) acquisition alone can provide. The focus of this paper concerns the role the learner's L1 plays in succeeding…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Role, Transfer of Training, English (Second Language)
Stoll, Sabine – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The goal of this research is to determine the relevant factors that aid in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian. Results confirm the findings of previous research, which say that aspect is not learned as a uniform category, but rather interrelates with the acquisition of Aktionsarten. This study focuses on the factors responsible…
Descriptors: Verbs, Russian, Language Acquisition, Structural Grammar
Kemppainen, Ulla; Tossavainen, Kerttu; Vartiainen, Erkki; Puska, Pekka; Jokela, Veikko; Pantelejev, Vladimir; Uhanov, Mihail – Health Education, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to show that a syndrome of problem behaviours, i.e. early substance abuse, school and family problems and sexual promiscuity impairs normal development in adolescence. This comparative study looked for differences in the problem behaviour profiles of 15-year-old adolescents in the Pitkaranta district in Russia…
Descriptors: Family Problems, Substance Abuse, Health Behavior, Smoking
Jensen, Linda; Llosa, Lorena – Heritage Language Journal, 2007
This paper examines the reading experiences, strategies, and curriculum preferences of university-level heritage language students. One hundred and twenty eight students enrolled in four different heritage language programs at UCLA--Korean, Russian, Thai, and Vietnamese--completed a survey about their exposure to print, early and current reading…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Reading Skills, Curriculum Design, College Students
Starr, S. Frederick; Boisture, J. Bruce – 1972
This study was prepared to provide a convenient compendium of data for those participating in a conference on "Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States" held at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, in May, 1972. The purpose of the conference and of the study was to assess the state of teaching and research…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Curriculum, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education
Thompson, Irene – 1995
This report addresses the reliability of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), not as a measure of speaking ability, but rather as practiced by testers trained by the ACTFL, such as by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR), in English as a Second Language (ESL), French, German,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluators, French, German
Thornton, Julie A. – 1996
The report describes one segment of the Federal Language Testing Board's Unified Language Testing Plan (ULTP), the validation of the speaking proficiency test in Russian. The ULTP is a project to increase standardization of foreign language proficiency measurement and promote sharing of resources among testing programs in the federal government.…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1986
The final project report on development of an advanced Russian language listening and reading proficiency test is presented. It summarizes activities in the second year of the project, including dissemination of summer 1985 test validation results to participating higher education institutions, item analyses, completion of the final test edition,…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Watzke, John – 1994
A survey conducted in a large, predominantly white suburban high school in the midwest investigated student attitudes toward study of Russian and other foreign languages. Respondents were 815 students of Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Latin at three levels of instruction. Students were first asked to rank the reasons they chose the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Enrollment Influences, High School Students, High Schools
Hinton, Leanne, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, 24 leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. Contributions and authors include the following: "Sound-Symbolic Processes" (Leanne Hinton, Johanna…
Descriptors: African Languages, Clinics, English, Finnish
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Yonkers, NY. – 1993
The video-based exercises, designed at the Novice High to Intermediate High skill levels on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages language proficiency scale, are aimed at developing non-interactive listening comprehension. The tapes used contain authentic broadcast Russian. Nothing is adapted. The trick to using real Russian is…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills, Russian