The potential and successes of Soviet literature is recreating the war years for the younger generation is outlined. (DE)

A weekend language camp for secondary school students of Russian, attended by 125 students and teachers, is described. Tips for organization of such a camp are given. (RM)

A discussion of transitive and intransitive verbs in Russian leads to the conclusion that the question of transitivity rests primarily with the meaning of the verb itself and with the resulting amenability to passive transformation. (Author/RM)

Four distinct cases of the Russian imperfective-completive are examined, focusing on typical non-negated past-tense uses. One suggestion for improving the teaching of aspect is to draw simple parallels between English and Russian verb systems, both of which consist of the three aspectualities "completive,""habitual," and…

Traces the evolution of thought in the field of psycholinguistics ("theory of verbal activity" in Russia) and discusses current research being done in the United States, Europe, and the Soviet Union. A valid method of teaching language cannot be developed without a theory of language acquisition. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

The historical role of the Russian language in developing cultural unity is explained. (DE)

Describes a modification of the two-stem approach to teaching conjugation and verb stress in Russian which eliminates dictionary look-up for forms not predictable from the infinitive. Appendix A is an outline of Russian conjugation and verb stress. Appendix B is a verb list from Kostomarov's "Russkij jazyk dlja vsex." (Author/LMO)

Analyses for stress patterns of the first 1,000 nouns and 500 verbs from a high-frequency Russian vocabulary list. The most irregular patterns are seen in the most frequently occurring items and, therefore, should be learned early in the study of Russian. (Author/LMO)

Reasons that students have trouble developing their reading skills in Russian include: (1) reading comprehension is regarded as unimportant; (2) teachers discourage the surmising of meaning; and, (3) it is difficult to remember Russian words unless their elements (roots, prefixes, and suffixes) are recognized. (SED)

Six- and seven-year-old children in Soviet Georgia learned the Russian language in prolonged day programs by means of experimental teaching techniques. The teaching methods involved two major principles: (1) only Russian was used throughout the teaching/learning situation; and (2) instruction was through children's "nonlearning"…

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

A seminar held in the Soviet Union on the linguo-stylistic analysis of a literary text is described. This approach focuses on the linguistic code and cultural context of the text. The applicability of this method in the classroom is discussed. (RM)

Compares consonant mutations in English and Russian, and proposes a method for teaching these mutations to students of Russian as a second language. (CHK)

(Text is in Russian.)