Russian Sessions at NECTFL

[Benjamin Rifkin]

NECTFL is the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.  A
regional affiliate of ACTFL, NECTFL holds an exciting conference annually in
the spring in New York City.  This year¹s conference will be held March
28-30 at the Marriott on Times Square.  It will feature several sessions on
Russian as follows:

#41:  AZBULA Genres as tools of Russian language culture acquisition, by
EkaterinaItes, U of Mass School of Education

#146:  High School and College Collaboration: An Example from Russian,
Presented by Carol Ueland (Drew U.) and Ruth Edelman (Tenafly School
District)

#51:  Oxfor U. Press Dictionaries On-=Line.  This program will expand in May
to include Chinese and Russian.

#67:  New Approaches to FL Lesson Planning, Ben Rifkin (Temple)

#164:  Teaching Speech Act Pragmatics: drawing on research in cross-cultural
and interlangauge pragmatics, participants will focus on benefits and
challenges of teaching speech acts.  Maria Shardakova, U of Penn, Evgeny
Dengub, Temple & Bryn Mawr, Lisa DeWaard Dykstra, Clemson U., Valentina
Dunn, Bryn Mawr

#247:  Integrate Video into Your Lesson, Ben Rifkin, Temple University:  how
to use authoring tools created by RAILS Project to develop your own
materials.


Publishers exhibiting textbooks and readers for Russian include Yale U.
Press (several titles including Advanced Russian through History), Focus
Publishing (several titles including Advanced Russian Conversation through
Film), as well as Prentice Hall and McGraw-Hill.

There will be numerous other sessions that will be of interest to teachers
of Russian, especially a lot of sessions on using technology in the
curriculum.  Apple is sponsoring a ³playground² with computers and iPODS
specifically designed to show case foreign language learning applications at
the conference.

For more information, see www.nectfl.org

Attendance at the conference is only open to those who register.

For questions, e-mail nectfl at dickinson.edu

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin


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