Russian Textbook for High School
Francoise Rosset
frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU
Tue Mar 20 19:42:52 UTC 2012
Dear everyone:
I second Jane Shuffelton and others who argue that a textbook should
be chosen BECAUSE it was designed for HS and BECAUSE it has all those
ancillary items (pics, culture, games etc.) that HSers expect.
I did teach HS language classes for one year, at Punahou in Honolulu,
and those students, courses and expectations were simply utterly
different from the ones I had at the University of Hawai'i. I taught
three different languages (sic) at Punahou and two of them at UH, and
the differences held accross the board.
The one advantage to using a textbook designed for college is that if
you organize things well, your students may end up going to a college
that uses the same textbook, and their level will then be obvious.
I cannot answer the question about HS 3 and 4, as I only taught
Russian 1. It is an important question, and I am cheered to no end by
the fact that HSs are actually teaching Russian 3 and 4 !!!
-FR
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:54:24 -0400
Jane Shuffelton <janeshuffelton at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> HS Russian language teachers,
>
> When I used Face to Face I found that it had plenty of grammar
>practice and
> was structured to develop competency in grammar. Of course teachers
>who
> felt there should be more grammar practice could develop their own
> materials.. But I think the essential feature of Face to Face that
>has
> relevance for a high school program is the format, much closer to
> textbooks they would have in other languages (pictures, cultural
>materials
> that would appeal to pre-college students.)
>
> I actually found myself developing more communicative activities
>when I
> used the textbook, especially in reference to re-tooling my program
>around
> the national Standards for Foreign Language Learning K-12.
>
> Jane Shuffelton
> Brighton High School (retired)
>
Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX: (508) 286-3640
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