Advanced Russian: From Reading to Speaking, Book 1 & Book 2 (Russian and English Edition) - Softcover

Lubensky, Sophia; Odintsova, Irina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0893573744 ISBN 13: 9780893573744

Publisher: Slavica Pub, 2011

Synopsis

This innovative suite of instructional material for advanced students of Russian is aimed at fostering their transition from slow, controlled speech to native-like fluency. The driving methodology is lexicalist-oriented, implying an emphasis on the situated internalization of vocabulary, so that grammar skills develop naturally with the repeated use of particular words and phrases in combination. The textbook centers around authentic stories by contemporary Russian writers, supplemented by cultural background, various activities, and the treatment of select grammatical points. These stories will not only challenge students to read real Russian, they will also provide a stimulus for free discussion about social circumstances, human relationships, and moral values reflected in the literature. These are the first instructional materials for advanced Russian that are oriented around unmodified literary texts; focus on the development of fluent speech; use cutting-edge technology to support guided reading; offer microtexts as the basis for numerous activists; provide detailed and varied potential responses to open-ended questions; and underscore the one point that almost goes without saying: that one cannot master a language without knowing the words. The text is accompanied by cloud access to multimedia materials designed by Lexicon Bridge Publishers.

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About the Author

Sophia Lubensky has been Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University at Albany-SUNY. Her areas of specialization are lexical semantics, bilingual lexicography, methodology of teaching Russian. She is the author of the critically acclaimed, comprehensive Random House Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms and the widely used textbook Nachalo.
Irina Odintsova is Associate Professor in the Department of Russian for Foreign Students at the Faculty of Philology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. She specializes in functional grammar and the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Slavica Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0893573744
• ISBN 13: 9780893573744
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Russian
• Number of pages: 610