Suggestions for Textbooks

[Julia Trubikhina]

I successfully applied Kitaigorodskaia's excellent text-book+ tapes
entitled "Bridges of Trust" (year of publication must be 1995 or 1994?).
Kitaigorodskaia's intensive course is in use at MGU (or is it RGU now?).
 As you might have noticed from the title it is a little dated
("perestroika" kind of context) but it is very useful if the emphasis is
on oral proficiency.  I would be interested to know if this course has
been updated.

Julia Trubikhina
New York UniversityOn Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Erin Diehm wrote:

> We are preparing to teach two intensive 5-week courses of "Russian for
> Reading" this summer.  (Participants are graduate students from other
> disciplines who need to learn only to read Russian for research purposes.)
> During the first 5-week session students will cover all basic grammar,
> using one textbook as their main reference and source of exercises.  During
> the second 5-week session, students will read and translate (as a class)
> articles and texts chosen by the instructor.  Finally, students will choose
> a scholarly article in their field of study and, working one-on-one with
> the instructor, translate it into English.
>
> Have any of you had experience teaching similar courses?  If so, which
> textbooks and/or materials would you suggest?  We already have one textbook
> in mind, but would much appreciate any additional suggestions or ideas.
>
> Please respond off-list to:  diehm.1 at osu.edu
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Daniel Collins (collins.232 at osu.edu)
> Erin Diehm (diehm.1 at osu.edu)
> Glenn Corey (corey.9 at osu.edu
>
> at The Ohio State University
>