Russian in Russia newsletter

[Richard Smith]

Tver InterContact Group Proudly Announces the First Issue
of its New Newsletter, Russian in Russia!
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Dear Colleagues:

The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture, in
conjunction with the Center for International Education of Tver
InterContact Group, announces the  first  issue of its new
informational newsletter "Russian in Russia." This newsletter
is addressed primarily to professors of Russian as a foreign
language, students and administrators of Slavic languages and
Russian Studies Departments, language and cultural center
specialists, international program directors, secondary school
teachers and students of Russian, as well as to all other
persons interested in studying Russian language and culture.

We hope, through this newsletter, to add diversity to your
professional reading list. We aim to provide objective
reporting of all educational issues and events of interest to
our readers.

The editor and publisher of this newsletter is a private, non-
profit educational organization, the Tver InterContact Group.
As of 1995, we have released the following publications for Russian
educators: Higher Education Abroad newsletter, Logos-X-Press
newsletter (for teachers and students of foreign languages), the
Directory of Higher Educational Systems Abroad, as well as a
number of educational textbooks for students of foreign languages.

The newsletter Russian in Russia will be published bi-monthly. We
will deliver to you the first six months' issues absolutely free of
charge. If you like this publication, then at the end of the trial
period you may elect to continue your subscription.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF RUSSIAN IN RUSSIA:

- Advice on methods and techniques for practical Russian
language and literature instruction
- Advice from Russian educators, methodologists, and linguists
- Reporting on international projects  administered on the
initiative of and with participation by Russian institutions
- Information about new methods and approaches to teaching
Russian, and shared anecdotal experiences from teachers and
students
- Reviews and analyses of proposals and educational programs in
Russia, as well as anecdotal stories collected from the
personal experiences of people studying and interning in Russia
- Reviews of professional journals and publications discussing
the practical and theoretical aspects of  teaching courses on
Russian language and area studies
- Answers  to frequently-asked questions garnered from Internet
newsgroups and listservers
- Responses to reader inquiries and mail
- Discussions of controversial issues in language teaching
methodology, and approaches to evaluating the language
proficiency of students
- Commentaries, articles, and newsclips from professional and
popular magazines of interest to Slavic languages scholars
- Announcements of all sorts, including information on upcoming
events and conferences in Russia

IN THE PILOT ISSUE we invite you to peruse the following:

- Professor and Doctor of Philological Sciences Georgii Bogin,
noted specialist in the fields of hermeneutics, linguistics,
pedagogical science, and textual analysis, discusses methods
and techniques of teaching Russian as a foreign language
- Russian language programs review, complete with commentary by
our analysts
- Digest of recent events in the literary life of Russia, followed by an
article on how to employ modern literary works in teaching Russian
at various levels of language proficiency
- Commentary on linguistic developments in modern Russian as
used in  business, and  an article from one of the most popular
Russian weekly periodicals, on the linguistical idiosyncrasies
of the Russian Duma members
- Practical materials for  teaching an introductory language
course, based on specially composed phonetic songs for mastery
of the Russian language
- Expert  recommendations for optimizing the evaluation of
students' language proficiency differences, with accompanying
sample tests
- Reports from the survivors of the 1995 Summer School at the
International Institute of Russian Language and Culture in Tver

Those wishing  to receive the newsletter should send their
subscription requests to our electronic address:

(info at ic.redline.ru)

Professors in Russian language and area studies departments
might also want to add subscription to this newsletter to their
students' optional reading list, to provide perspective on
issues, and inform them of events, in Modern Russian education.

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International Institute of Russian Language and Culture
c/o Tver InterContact Group
P.O.Box 0565, Central Post Office, Tver 170000, Russia
Tel:    +7.0822.425419,  .425439
Fax:   +7.501.9021765
Telex: 614587 INTER RU