recommendations for second-year text

[Michael Denner]

Dear SEELANGers,

 

I've decided to change textbooks for our second-year Russian course,
which meets five days a week. The students will have completed Live from
Moscow and have, I feel, a very firm grasp of the grammar contained
therein. I've used Welcome Back for years, but I don't feel that it's a
terribly effective book, and I've ended up adding so much additional
material, and still am dissatisfied, that I thought I'd give another
book a shot. Years ago, I used V puti, and, while there's much to
recommend in the book, I found its lexicon to be far too broad and
insufficiently integrated. That said, I remember there being a lot of
very excellent grammar and reading sections, but no film. 

 

A long windup to a simple question: Does anyone out there have a
second-year text that they love, that they would unhesitatingly
recommend? What are my choices? Can anyone share syllabi? I'm willing to
adopt a hodgepodge approach, using various resources, if anyone could
share their approach.  

 

Any help will be appreciated. Pls reply off-list. I'll be happy to
collect the responses and provide them to anyone who wants them.

 

Best,

mad 

 

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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
Director, University Honors Program

Contact Information:
Russian Studies Program
Stetson University
Campus Box 8361
DeLand, FL 32720-3756
386.822.7381 (department)
386.822.7265 (direct line)
386.822.7380 (fax)
http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner <http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner> 

 


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