Russian Conversation by staging a play

[Francoise Rosset]

Dear Alexei Khamin and others:
Nancy Tittler at SUNY Binghamton has been teaching such a course. If
she has not answered off-list yet, you might want to contact her
directly at: ntittler at binghamton.edu
-FR

>I am teaching Conversational Russian, and this semester Iíd like to try
>something new. Iíd like to have my students (I have seven in the class) to
>learn and stage a Russian play. Teaching through that sort of performative
>means is known to be effective as it helps the students to learn not only good
>grammar and vocabulary yet also interaction skills, including culture specific
>gestures etc. However, I am not sure what text/play would serve my
>purposes the best.



--
Francoise Rosset, Russian and Russian Studies
Coordinator for Women's Studies, spring 2004
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
phone:  (508) 286-3696
fax:    (508) 286-3640
e-mail: frosset at wheatonma.edu

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