The AATSEEL
AmericanN EWSLETTERAssociation of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages
Contents Message from the President ...... 3 Letter from the Editor ...... 3 AATSEEL Awards ...... 4 Special in This Issue: Russian at Work ...... 5 Recent Publications ...... 6 Technology and Language 2004 AATSEEL Awards Learning ...... 7 Awards ...... 7 Call for Papers for Member News ...... 8 Everything You Always Wanted to 2005 Annual Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask ...... 9 Conference Summer Language Programs ...... 12 Psychology of Language Learning ...... 15 Graduate Student Forum ...... 16 Czech Corner ...... 18 Ukrainian Issues ...... 20 Call for Papers ...... 23 Belarusica ...... 27 Employment Opportunities ...... 28 Professional Opportunities ...... 29
Volume 48 Issue 1 February 2005 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 1 February 2005
AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: ANNA JACOBSON CATHARINE THEIMER NEPOMNYASHCHY Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN Barnard College [email protected] ALINA ISRAELI OLGA LIVSHIN President-Elect: KEITH MEYER-BLASING SIBELAN FORRESTER ALLA NEDASHKIVSKA Swarthmore College JEANETTE OWEN [email protected] MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE Past President: LINDA SCATTON BENJAMIN RIFKIN CURT WOOLHISER University of Wisconsin [email protected] NL Coordinates: Vice Presidents: Editor: [email protected] EMILY JOHNSON Assistant Editor: [email protected] University of Oklahoma Layout/Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] TODD GOLDING AATSEEL Office: Jefferson High School KATHLEEN DILLON [email protected] Executive Director, AATSEEL STEVE FRANKS P. O. Box 7039 Indiana University Berkeley, CA 94707-2306 USA [email protected] Phone/fax: 510-526-6614 MARY NICHOLAS E-mail: [email protected] Layout/Advertising: CDL Services, Amman, Jordan Lehigh University [email protected] Submitting Copy: JANE HACKING (1) Foreign languages are accommodated if prepared on Ma- University of Utah cIntosh with a truetype or postscript font that can be shared. j[email protected] (2) Eps or pdf with embedded fonts, Indesign, PageMaker, TODD ARMSTRONG and Quark Express documents can be accommodated. Grinnell College (3) Please do not double-space between sentences in elec- [email protected] tronic submissions. Program Coordinator: (4) Please query the editor about formatting, content, graph- WILLIAM COMER ics, or language. University of Kansas (5) Since the newsletter is produced in part in Jordan, submis- [email protected] sions must be sent by fax or email by deadlines given on the Editor, Slavic and East European Journal: back cover and on the AATSEEL website. GERALD JANECEK (6) The AATSEEL Newsletter is not copyrighted. Authors University of Kentucky wishing to protect their contributions should copyright their [email protected] materials. Editor, AATSEEL Newsletter: (7) Full specifications are available at the AATSEEL web site. BETTY LOU LEAVER New York Institute of Technology, Jordan [email protected] AATSEEL Web site Executive Director: KATHLEEN DILLON For current online information about [email protected] AATSEEL and its activities, visit AATSEEL Webmaster: on the web: MARTA DEYRUP Seton Hall Univ. http://www.aatseel.org [email protected]
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Message from the to be busier in the twenty-first century, this and it seems a long way to next De- in part because email and the internet cember, I want to urge you all to mark AATSEEL President have placed greater resources at our December 27-30 on your calendars. We disposal, and in part because ever more are fortunate that the convention this As I take on the position of Presi- energy seems to go to administrative year will be in Washington, DC, cer- dent of AATSEEL, I cannot look to the holding actions to maintain the place tainly the best place to get our message future without first paying my respects of our field in the academy. Our field out. I call on the whole membership to to the past. AATSEEL has indeed been is more diffuse than it once was, and make this the best AATSEEL conven- fortunate over the years to find dedicated many of us work across disciplinary tion ever—by putting together panels, people willing to devote their time and and national boundaries, which makes suggesting special events, encouraging energy to the good of the organization AAASS, MLA, ACTFL and a host of your students, colleagues, and peers to and the field it represents. My immedi- other conferences and organizations participate, and, most important, com- ate predecessors—Sally Pratt, who now attractive competitors for our time and ing to Washington yourself. retires as Past President, and Ben Rifkin, attention. who moves into that position—have In order to survive, like any healthy shepherded the organization through organization, AATSEEL must adapt some of its hardest times. to its changing context—without, Looking back further in time, my however, jettisoning its heritage. My Letter own biggest debt of gratitude, and part greatest priority in my term as president from the Editor of what has kept me a loyal supporter will be to do what I can to reinvigorate of AATSEEL over the years, is to Joe scholarly and professional dialogue not Greetings to all and best wishes for Malik, Executive Secretary-Treasurer only among generations, but among another new year! (that was the title then) of the organiza- the various constituencies of the or- The first thing you may have no- tion from 1968 to 1985. My first contact ganization—language and literature ticed is the different way in which you with AATSEEL came when I was still a pedagogues, linguists, secondary and received this newsletter. Yep, we have graduate student doing registration for post-secondary teachers. While our gone entirely electronic. We had experi- the annual convention when it was held individual specializations all too often mented with e-distribution successfully in New York. In those days, a quarter of put up barriers between us, in the final earlier (see the article on page 5), but a century ago, it was relatively rare for analysis, we are all in the same belea- we had not planned a leap into full graduate students to give papers at the guered boat of Slavic studies, struggling e-distibution for some time. However, conference, but Dr. Malik was always to stay afloat in an environment that the times being what they are and the encouraging to the junior people in the appears ever more indifferent or hostile problems of using paper copy (efforts, field—even to the extent of bending the to the humanities in general and our time, cost, speed) being what they are, rules to let a grad student give as many own region of the world in particular. the Executive Committee decided at as three papers at one conference! (For- AATSEEL remains our professional or- the December meeting at the Annual tunately, I don’t think any of us were ganization and our best advocate, but it Convention of the AATSEEL to move actually crazy enough to go through will only be as strong as the community into full e-distribution effective this fall. with it.) Dr. Malik welcomed panels of which it is composed. However, with the loss of our account put together by graduate students, es- The work of AATSEEL goes on all person at the printing house, with the pecially those with participants from year long, and we are indeed fortunate resulting December newletter not reach- different institutions and from different to have a worthy successor to Joe Malik ing some members of AATSEEL until generations. Most important, AATSEEL in Kathleen Dillon, who, as Executive the end of Jaznuary, something had to was my window into the larger field, Director, keeps the organization go- be done. For now, we will be using a giving me and others of my generation ing day to day. And, of course, SEEJ, hidden URL for all members for whom in the pre-internet world the chance to the Newsletter, and the webpage are we have e-mail addresses on file and find out what was going on beyond our important services of the organization. paper printouts to others. We are looking home institutions, in the wider world However, for the majority of our mem- at other forms of distribution and may of Slavic. The convention was one of bers, the national convention remains do a passworded online version begin- the high points of the year. Even if it the “big event” of AATSEEL, a time to ning in the fall. One advantage of the did come inconveniently, then as now, share the fruits of research and teaching, e-version should be readily evident: we between Christmas and New Year’s, it to reconnect with old friends, and make have added color! Another advantage was an event not to be missed. new ones—to give up a few days of the is that you can now do a computer-as- As we look to the future of AAT- holiday season in the good cause of de- sisted search for topics of interest. Stay SEEL, it is clear that things have fining the current state of our field. tuned! More bells and whistles may be changed dramatically since the early So, even though a January blizzard coming! days of the organization. We all seem is raging outside my window as I write
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2004 AATSEEL Awards Presentation Call for Nominations for At the December AATSEEL Annual Meeting, President Benjamin Rifkin the 2005 AATSEEL and Past President Sally Pratt presented Awards: 2004 awards to AATSEEL members selected for their contribution to the • Excellence in Teaching at the field. A full description of the awards Secondary Level was published in the October 2004 • Excellence in Teaching at the AATSEEL Newsletter. Below are photos Post-Secondary Level from the awards ceremony. • Distinguished Service to AATSEEL • Outstanding Contribution to the Profession Masasko Ueda-Fidler (Brown University) receives the award for Excellence in • Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level Nominees MUST be members of AATSEEL. To nominate someone for one of these awards: send your nomination, including a paragraph explaining why you think the individual is de- serving of the award, to Benjamin Rifkin, Past President of AATSEEL at [email protected]. Deadline: May 1, 2005. Award winners will be notified Betsy Sandstrom (Thomas Jefferson High by July 1, 2005. Awards will be pre- School) receives the award for Excellence sented at the 2005 AATSEEL Confer- in Teaching at the Secondary Level ence in Washington, DC (December 28-30, 2005).
Alexander Schenker (Yale University) Year of Languages receives the award for Outstanding Radio Series Contribution to Scholarship The long-awaited Year of Lan- guages (2005) is now here. Many ac- tivities are planned by foreign-language and community organizations around the country. As the year goes on, the AATSEEL Newsletter will be happy to report on the various kinds of activities that supporters of language study are undertaking. Here we note that the Year of Lan- guages will have a radio series hosted by South Carolina Public Radio. The point of contact, Eric “Rick” Rickerson On behalf of Irene Masing-Delic ([email protected]) has offered (Ohio State University), OSU Graduate to share information with AATSEEL Student Inna Caron accepts the George Fowler (Indiana University) members to help get their public radio Award for Outstanding Contribution receives the award for Distinguished affiliates subscribing to this exciting to the Profession Service to AATSEEL series.
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RUSSIAN AT WORK: Editor: Linda H. Scatton INTERVIEWS WITH PROFESSIONALS (Educational Testing Service) WHO USE RUSSIAN ON THE JOB
interpreters of Russian (10), Spanish The three-hour exam currently includes Medical Interpreter: (5), Portuguese (3), Asian languages some multiple-choice vocabulary items, An Interview with Jane (8-10), and American Sign Language some questions relating to ethical prac- (1). Jane coordinates training for all the tice and the role of interpreters, some Kontrimas interpreters at Beth Israel Hospital and tape-recorded sentence-conversion Liking the Russian language and she serves as mentor for all new medical exercises, and a set of role plays. liking to help people eventually led Jane interpreters. Kontrimas, Training Coordinator of In her interview, Jane made it clear Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Kath- Interpreter Services at Beth Israel Hos- that the role of the medical interpreter erine Chvany, Professor Emerita of pital in Boston, to fashion a career for demands a combination of language Massachusetts Institute of Technology, herself and develop a new profession in facility, patience, and psychology. She for suggesting this interview. The future the process. Jane studied Russian as an noted that the doctor and the patient of this column depends on those of you undergraduate at Middlebury College, each want to use the interpreter as a go- in the field who bring to my attention claiming that her selection of Russian between. For example, the patient may interesting careers of your former stu- as her major was due chiefly to the fun say, “Tell the doctor to prescribe X for dents or colleagues. Please continue to factor: the drill instructor played the me,” or the doctor may say, “Can’t you send me the names and email contact guitar and the students sang Russian get the patient just to take his medica- information of possible interviewees. folk songs on Friday afternoons. tions?” She has found the best approach Write to me at : [email protected]. Her first Russian-related job after is to have each side state the request graduation was as interpreter for the directly, and then the interpreter can Jewish Family and Children’s Services translate. Medical interpreters, regularly AATSEEL Newsletter resettlement program in Brookline, faced with stressful personal situations, Massachusetts, where she discovered must learn how to ask for pauses and Going Electronic that what she found most rewarding how to cope with unfamiliar words and Or should that be “has gone elec- about the job was taking elderly people alternative medical practices as well as tronic?” You may have noticed that this to the hospital for treatment. Because the more familiar ones. newsletter is coming to you for the first the elderly need more hospital care and In the mid-1980s, with a growing time ever in totally electonic format. have limited language skills, the role interest in professionalizing the role of No, this is not the first time that we have of the interpreter is especially crucial. medical interpreter, Jane co-founded published an electronic newsletter. For A year later, she was employed as Beth an interpreter group that would later the past year and a half, we have experi- Israel Hospital’s first full-time medical become the Massachusetts Medical mented with e-distribution of the news- interpreter in any language. She learned Interpreter Association (MMIA). Made letter. That experimentation has been a great deal by trial and error, including up of interpreters of a number of differ- quite successful. Those members of the cardinal rule for medical interpret- ent languages, members of the group AATSEEL who received their copies of ers: not to give one’s own medical found it useful to share experience and the newsletter by e-distribution received advice to the patient. expertise, and they soon realized there them on the first of the newsletter month In order to strengthen her oral skills, was a body of knowledge and set of whereas other members have had to wait Jane pursued a Certificate of Study skills that applied across languages. as much as six weeks for the printed ver- from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, Jane has also shared her expertise sion to reach their doors. This is because two advanced tutorials at the Harvard by teaching medical interpreting in the printing process is quite cumberson: Extension, and repeated sessions at evening classes at Boston City Hospital, make plates, make dylux, send proof, Middlebury’s Russian Summer School. U-Mass Medical Center, Northern Es- get okay to print, print, adhere addresses To sharpen her supervisory and admin- sex Community College and elsewhere. sort by zip, bundle, and hand over to the istrative skills, she also took an MS She joined other area hospital interpret- USPO, which then goes through a slow in Management from Lesley College. ers in authoring an MMIA Code of Eth- process of delivering: bulk mail travels Her success as a medical interpreter ics and publishing the MMIA Standards only whenever there is space available, and the growing immigrant population of Practice for Medical Interpreters. With the e-newsletter, you will always in Boston led the hospital eventually They are now working on certification have access to your newsletter before to hire a number of interpreters. Cur- procedures and a prototype of a certi- the information is outdated! rently there are full-time and per-diem fication exam for medical interpreters.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The Recent Publications column includes books published RUSSIAN in 2003-2005. Authors and publishers are invited to submit BASIC-INTERMEDIATE information about their new publications. Art & Architecture Blagojevic, Liljana. 2003. Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941. Cambridge, LIDIA S. MCCARTHY, PHD MA: The MIT Press. Gelman. V. 2003. Pamjatniki i ljudi. Moscow: GMII im. A Pushkina. �� Easy explanations to Cultural Studies every grammar rule Czaplicka, John. 2004. Lviv : A City in the Crosscurrents of �� Russian-English Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. vocabulary lists for Helleman, Wendy. 2004. The Russian Idea: In Search of a every lesson New Identity. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. �� Numerous exercises Kappeler, Andreas, Zenon E. Kohut, and Frank E. Sysyn, eds. �� Revision Section after 2003. Culture, Nation, & Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian very four lessons Encounter (1600-1945). Canadian Institute of Ukrainian �� Sidebars throughout Study Press. the text with King, David. 2005. Serbia. NY: Benchmark Books. (for information about children) Russian history, White, Stephen, Elena A. Korosteleva, and John Lowenhardt. literature, art and 2004. Postcommunist Belarus. Rowman and Littlefield culture Publishers. Written by a native speaker, Russian Basic-Intermediate is Economics an illustrated guide into the world of Russian language and Levgold, Robert. 2004. Swords and Sustenance: The Eco- culture. It is filled with interesting Russian texts, nomics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine. Cambridge, grammatical explanations, numerous exercises, humor and MA: The MIT Press. asides with information about Russian history, culture, Mandel, David. 2004. Labour After Soviet Socialism : Auto- literature and art. This textbook consists of 18 lessons, each starting with text workers and Their Unions in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. and vocabulary lists, grammar sections with explanations in Black Rose Books. English and various exercises combining both new and Robinson, Neil. 2004. Reforging the Weakest Link: Global previously learned vocabulary and grammar. Every four Political Economy and Post-Soviet Change in Russia, lessons are followed by a revision section. Russian Basic- Ukraine and Belarus. Ashgate Publishing. Intermediate’s illustrated asides cover Russian history from Terterov, Marat and Kogan Page. 2004. Doing Business with the period of Kievan Russia up to the end of the Soviet era. Serbia and Montenegro. Kogan Page Publishing. The author, holding a Ph.D in Historical Linguistics, USA IBP. 2004. Belarus Export-import And Business Direc- explains how the Russian alphabet was created, where tory. International Business Publications. Russian names came from and tells about derivation of some Russian words and expressions. History David-Fox Michael, Peter Holquist, and Marshall Poe. 2004. Product details: Universal Publishers, July 2004, After the Fall: Essays in Russian and Soviet Histiography. ISBN: 1581125232 Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. Paperback- $29.95, eBook - $9.00. Dragnich, Alex N. 2005. Serbia through the Ages. East Eu- Available directly from the Publisher at ropean Monographs. www. universal-publishers.com or Lelikova, N. K. 2004. Stanovelenie i razvitie knogovedches- www.amazon.com; www.bn.com koj i bibliograficheskoj nauk v Rossii v XIX-pervoj treti XX veka. St. Petersburg: Rossijskaja Natsional’naja Bib- lioteka. WWW.UNIVERSAL-PUBLISHERS.COM Continued on page 8
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Editor’s Note: If you have an interest Technology & Editor: Jeanette Owen in the use of technology in language (Arizona State University) learning that you want to share, please Language Learning send your submission to Jeanette Owen by e-mail ([email protected]) or yield the following gloss: sahrana,e f snail-mail (ASU, Dept. of Languages Technology and Authentic and Literatures, P.O. Box 870202, Materials: BCS Tagger Project [I] funeral n, sepulture n, interment n, inhumation. Pressing the I (inflection) Tempe, AZ 85287-0202) Danko Šipka button will expand the word sahrana Arizona State University in all its forms (Nominative Singular In this issue, Professor Danko sahrana, Genitive sahrane, etc.). Šipka provides an overview of internet The text can be tagged automati- AWARDS resources he has developed to enable cally or interactively. In the former case, language learners to read and analyze the most frequent solution is deployed in Call for Nominations authentic texts at relatively early stages cases of ambiguous forms (the example in the curriculum. above illustrates this tagging option). for the 2005 Despite the widespread I-just-want- The interactive manner of tagging to-speak student attitude, the most valu- prompts the user to resolve all cases AATSEEL Awards: able professional skill to be acquired in of ambiguous forms (e.g., to tell if the • Excellence in Teaching at the Slavic language classrooms is the ability form je found in the text belongs to the Secondary Level to understand authentic written and verb biti ‘to be’ or to the pronoun ona ‘she’). The present tagger project pro- • Excellence in Teaching at the spoken texts in the target language. It is Post-Secondary Level therefore imperative that authentic ma- vides instructors with the opportunity to terials are included in the curriculum as prepare up-to-date authentic materials • Distinguished Service to AAT- early as possible. However, attempting in a short time frame (an example of SEEL to address this imperative leads to the a post-edited tagger text is available • Outstanding Contribution to the following dilemma. On the one hand, at http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka/ Profession students with a limited command of bcs202a1.html). At present, the following problems • Outstanding Contribution to vocabulary cannot be expected to pro- Scholarship cess “raw” authentic texts as constant are being addressed within the BCS references to the dictionary would be Tagger project. First, some low-frequen- Nominees MUST be members of overly time consuming and frustrating. cy lexemes and irregular forms are still AATSEEL. On the other hand, instructors do not being added to the database. The cov- To nominate someone for one of command sufficient financial and tem- erage currently comprises over 95% of these awards: send your nomination, in- poral resources to manually gloss these an average newspaper text. Second, an cluding a paragraph explaining why you texts with English equivalents. editing tool enabling swift post-editing think the individual is deserving of the The ongoing BCS (Bosniac/Croa- of the tagged text is under development. award, to Benjamin Rifkin, Past Presi- tian/Serbian) Tagger Project is an Third, reorganizing the knowledge base dent of AATSEEL at [email protected]. attempt to provide an answer to the is underway to increase the probability Deadline: May 1, 2005. aforementioned dilemma and enable of selecting the most likely base word Award winners will be notified by early inclusion of printed authentic ma- in cases of ambiguity. July 1, 2005. Awards will be presented terials (newspaper articles, short stories, Analogous taggers for Polish and at the 2005 AATSEEL Conference in public and corporate web sites, etc.). Russian are in the pipeline at ASU, Washington, DC (December 28-30, The tagger is located at http://cli.la.asu. pending financial support and/or part- 2005). edu/clitag2. It accepts a text in Windows ners. Central European, which can be taken from any target-language newspaper available on-line (e.g., www.danas. co.yu, www.novilist.hr), or any other Globus A Slavic Bookstore text in BCS and returns the text tagged Veronica Ahrens-Pulawski with English glosses, as can be seen at http://cli.la.asu.edu/clitag2/example. 332 Balboa Street • San Francisco, CA 94118 html. By clicking on any of the under- Ph & Fax 415-668-4723 lined word forms in the text, the user can see the respective English gloss. Thus, e-mail [email protected] • http://pweb.jps.net/~globus clicking on the BCS word sahrana will 7 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 1 February 2005
Recent Publications Continued Tolochko, P. P. 2003. Russkie letopisy. Continued from page 6 St. Petersburg. Member News Markelov, G. V. 2004. Pisanija vy- Zagrebin, V. M. 2004. Rukopisnye knigi sobranija M. P. Pogodina. St. gotsev: Sochenija pomorskikh sta- Editor: Keith Meyer-Blasing roobrjadtsev v Drevlekhranilishche Petersburg: Rosijskaja Natsional’naja Pushkinskogo Doma. St. Petersburg. Biblioteka. (University of Wisconsin) Gaunt, David. 2004. Collaboration and Linguistics The AATSEEL Newsletter likes to keep Resistance during the Holocaust: Cook, N. M. 2004. A Contrastive Study its members informed about important Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. of Verbal Aspect in German and Ser- events and professional milestones! If Peter Lang Publishing. bo-Croatian. Peter Lang Publishers. you or an AATSEEL member you know Petrukhin, V. & D. Raevksij. 2004. Davies, Allen. 2004. The Handbook of has recently defended a dissertation, Ocherki istorii narodov Rosii v Applied Linguistics. London, UK: been hired, received a promotion or drevnosti i rannem srednevokov’e. Blackwell. retired, please send the member’s name, Moscow: Znak. Hawkesworth, Celia and Ranko Bugar- accomplishment and affiliation to: Pezske, Michael Alfred and Piotr S. ski. 2004. Language in the Former Keith Meyer-Blasing Wandycz. 2004. The Polish Under- Yugoslav Lands. Bloomington, IN: [email protected] ground Army, the Western Allies, and Slavic Publishers. The AATSEEL Newsletter would the Failure of Strategic Unity in World Kosta, Peter. 2003. Investigations into like to recognize the following mem- War II. McFarland and Company. Formal Slavic Linguistics. Peter Lang bers for their recent professional mile- Rontoyanni, Clelia. 2005. Towards Publishing. stones: Inclusive European Security: Russia, Rivero, Maria-Luisa. 2004. Verbs and Ukraine, Belarus and the European Clause Structure: Long Verb Move- Dissertation Defense Security and Defense Policy. London: ment in Balkan, Celtic, Old Romance, Jacee Cho defended her dissertation, Blackwell Publishers. and Slavic Languages. Oxford, UK: “Structure and functions of neologisms Sengupta, Anita. 2004. The Formation Oxford University Press. in the Russian newspaper language” at of the Uzbek Nation-State: A Study in Moscow State University in December, Transition. Lexington Books. Continued on page 21 2004. Congratulations to Jacee!
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Alina Israeli EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED (American University) TO KNOW ABOUT RUSSIAN GRAMMAR Send questions to: BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK [email protected]
Q. Ничего нельзя наперед have a subject, so we can only speak of ning (i.e. One must say what happened загадывать! Why is there no an underlying or logical subject. that evening). negative НЕ here? I thought it was In the case of Ничего нельзя Impossibility and prohibition repre- always needed. наперед загадывать! we also have an sent modal qualifications of an action in A. The verb is negated when an ac- impersonal sentence, although for a general, rather than negation of a par- tion is denied, that is the action never different reason: impersonal sentences ticular action. Thus they do not require took place. A complete denial usually with нельзя mean either impossibility negation of the verb. triggers imperfective: Я никому ничего (with perfective) or prohibition (with Q. С детства бегал по грибы, и не говорила, while a limited denial in imperfective). Thus this sentence means на всю жизнь для меня это, пожалуй, a concrete situation is likely to trig- ‘One should not make long term plans.’ самое любимое занятие. Why not за ger perfective: Я никому ничего не Prohibition or impossibility can involve грибами? сказала. both positive verbs (‘One should not A. The preposition по is used in The verb is not negated when the do this/One cannot do this’) as well as cases of natural gathering and is limited existence of an object or a “subject” is negative verbs (‘One shouldn’t not do to four items. This includes two rustic denied: this/One cannot not do this = One can- occupations — gathering mushrooms Мне не с кем поговорить. (ob- not resist doing this’): and berries — ходить по грибы and ject) Нельзя сказать, что он глуп. = ходить по ягоды; different types of Некому меня постричь. (“sub- One cannot say that he is stupid (i.e. berries (but not mushrooms) can be ject“) he is smart). spelled out: ходить по бруснику, по The reason “subject” is in quotation Нельзя не сказать о том, что малину, по клюкву etc. If по is replaced marks is because syntactically these произошло в этот вечер. = One cannot with за, one would have to add в лес sentences are impersonal and cannot avoid saying what happened that eve- or some other location in order not to
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9 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 1 February 2005 be ambiguous, since one can go to a Doesn’t по сту also occur sometimes in words, the DAT+GEN combination is market to get mushrooms, just like any the 19th century? not available to all the numerals. other commodity: ездить на тот берег A. First the rule: In CSR in distribu- The answer to this anomaly lies in за грибами. tive context, ПО plus the number one or the history of the Russian language. In Two other nouns that allow the us- a singular noun uses DAT — по яблоку, old Russian пять through десять were age of the prepositon по are: вода and по книге, на каждого по комнате, по feminine nouns, сорок was masculine, дрова — по воду and по дрова. Given одной тетрадке, while ПО plus higher and сто was neuter, just like тьма (ten that firewood is no longer in use in the numbers uses ACC — по два человека thousand) and тысяча. Пять through cities, the last combination is most com- в ряд, выдавали по три колограмма девять used to decline like кость (ac- monly used in the phrase кто в лес, кто муки в одни руки. Actually, numerals cording to П.Я. Черных. Историческая по дрова, which ironically means that ending in “one” also take a hybrid DAT: грамматика русского языка, М. people are doing different things, out of урожайность по двадцать одному 1962). Since the subsequent leveling sync, out of unison. центнеру с гектара or заплатить по of the paradigm, they all follow the Q. When using ПО in distributive сорок одному центу за фунт. third declension nouns. The following contexts, such as по одному (одной) ПО + DAT still survives in scoring examples are from Л.А. Булаховский. два (две) etc. with numbers 5 and up sports events: по трём — three all, по Исторический комментарий к either ACC or DAT can be used, the пяти — five all. русскому литературному языку, latter considered устарелое. But, if one In fact, phrases like по десяти Киев 1958 (p.199) (There are no ъ’s says по десять рублей (and that’s what рублей or по сту рублей (с человека/ in the book.): I would automatically say), why does на брата) are not exactly obsolete, У патриарха посол в ту пять дней one use GEN instead of DAT. Is this an but simply have a 19th century tinge, по упросу трижда ел. (Вымышл. exception? Or is this one of those gray an old-fashioned flavor. What is also статейный список посольства Андр. areas? What bothers me is in the old important is that while по пяти рублей, Ищеина 1570 г.) по десяти рублей why is it рублей and по десяти рублей, по сорока рублей … и на другую пять человек not рублям — shouldn’t десяти in this or по сту рублей are all correct, *по велети дати на сенокос луг… (Царск. instance be a modifier in the dative, as in трём рублей is impossible, in other грам. по челоб. охотников Пчевского прибавить к десяти рублям три рубля. яма, 1601) Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages at Indiana University June 17 - August 12, 2005 RUSSIAN - 1st through 6th year - 4- and 8-week courses available EAST EUROPEAN and BALTIC - 1st and 2nd year Estonian - 1st year Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, and Lithuanian - 1st yr. Polish, Romanian, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, and Macedonian are tuition-free for graduate students in East European field (ACLS funded) CENTRAL ASIAN and GEORGIAN - 1st and 2nd year Azeri, Georgian, Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek - 1st year Pashto FLAS and SSRC Fellowships are available Application Deadline for Fellowships April 1, 2005 IN-STATE TUITION for all languages
More information is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/ Or write to: Director, SWSEEL, BH 502, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel. (812) 855-2608 - FAX (812) 855-2107 - e-mail: [email protected]
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В.И. Борковский and П.С. Куз- Google Yandex нецов in Историческая грамматика русского языка, М. 1963, site an с тысячей рублей 33 40 example from Lomonosov’s poetry as с тысячью рублей 14 12 possibly archaic: В каждую осмь минут соверша- с тысячью рублями 10 11 ется распростертие света до земли от солнца (“Слово о происхождении тысячей концертов 2 2 света”, 1756) тысячью концертов 0 0 This government survives to this тысячью концертами 0 0 day. This brings us to the dual status of тысяча in CSR. It can be a regular vs. noun or a numeral. Morphologically this will show only in the form of in- тысячью окон 73 127 strumental case. As a noun, it will be тысячей окон 10 16 (с) тысячей, while as a numeral it will be (с) тысячью. тысячью окнами 0 0 Graudina in “Беседы о русской грамматике” (1983: 120-122) makes a тысячью мелочей 72 93 distinction between an exact number (a тысячей мелочей 11 31 numeral) and a generalized noun. Ex- amples of the former would include дом тысячью мелочами 7 2 с тридцатью окнами, дом с тысячью окнами while examples of the latter vs. would include человек с тысячей лиц, дом с тысячей окон. тысячью лиц 818 1268 Unfortunately, in their article on с тысячей рублей vs. с тысячью тысячью лицами 164 563 рублей, vs. с тысячью рублями, тысячей лиц 153 255 Граудина, Ицкович, and Катлинаская in Грамматическая правильность Google and Yandex disagreed on the use of русской речи (М. Наука, 1976: 264- 265) made an omission: in their hard дорога and нить: data only the two figures 7/2 are present (frequency out of 100,000 examples). тысячью дорог 16 48 Presumably, they are for the first two тысячей дорог 21 (!) 34 variants, but then the result should have been printed 7/2/0. The authors noted, тысячью дорогами 0 0 however, that in the early 70’s the form тысячью crowded out its competitor тысячью нитей 184 382 тысячей: тысячей нитей 29 32 За все время своего существо- вания коллектив художественной тысячью нитями 24 37 (!) самодеятельности выступил более чем с тысячью концертов (Труд, №6, It is difficult to establish the exact тысячью лиц, огней, нитей, рук, 8 января 1971) pattern as to which combination of the окон, мелочей, ног, голов перед тысячью дорог (Комс. three is more popular, however with a правда, 1 августа 1972) few exceptions Instr + Instr. usually © 2004 by Alina Israeli A recent search of two popular occupies the third place. Of the other Please send questions to: Prof. search engines gave inconclusive re- two, тысячей + Genitive and тысячью Alina Israeli, LFS, American Univer- sults. For some nouns тысячей + Gen + Genitive, here are the most common sity, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW., are more common, for others тысячью combinations: Washington DC 20016-8045; or via + Gen, and occasionally тысячью + тысячей рублей, детей, домов, e-mail to: [email protected] Instr is the second most popular (not книг, концертов the third):
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SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
Note from the Editor: The AATSEEL port for faculty and future teachers of immersion settings for American under- Newsletter will be happy to announce Russian at the university, high school, graduates and graduate students since your summer (and winter) language and secondary school level to study 1976, serving more than three thousand programs in Slavic and East European Russian literature, language, culture, students and faculty. languages and/or programs in Russian and second language pedagogy at The Russian Language and Area and East European cultural studies. Moscow State University for six weeks. Studies Program provides approxi- Please e-mail your information to the Graduate students with a commitment mately twenty hours per week of in- editors by the deadline for the various to the teaching profession are encour- class instruction in Russian grammar, issues. These deadlines can be found aged to apply. phonetics, conversation, and cultural on the back cover of any issue of the Awards provide round-trip inter- studies at Moscow International Uni- newsletter or at the AATSEEL website: national airfare from Washington, DC versity, and at the Russian State Peda- http://www. aatseel.org. The strong to Moscow, Russia; living stipends; gogical University (Gertsen Institute) preference is for information to be sub- full tuition; housing with Russian host in St. Petersburg. In Vladimir, Russian mitted electronically. Summer program families; pre-departure orientation; classes are taught by the CORA Center information is carried in every issue, weekly cultural excursions; insurance; for Russian Language. beginning in October of the academic and visas. Tentative program dates are At all three sites, classes are con- year leading up to the program; winter June 16 to August 3. Funded by the U.S. ducted in Russian by regular members program information is carried in the Department of Education. Application of the faculty. Financial aid is avail- October and December issues. deadline: March 1. able. Application deadline for Summer: Russian Language and Area March 1, 2005. Studies Program: The American Coun- The Eurasian Regional Lan- American Councils for Internation- cils for International Education: ACTR/ guage Program: offers instruction in al Education: ACTR/ACCELS ACCELS has administered intensive virtually any of the languages of the Summer Russian Language Russian language study programs in former Soviet Union at leading institu- Teachers Program: Provides full sup-
Slavic & East European S u m m e r L a n g u a g e I n s t i t u t e SLIUniversity of Pittsburgh • 2005 So, what are you doing next
SIX-WEEK INTENSIVEUMMERUMMERCOURSES IN EAST EUROPEAN EIGHT-WEEK INTENSIVE RUSSIAN (June 6 - July 15, 2005) (June? 6 - July 29, 2005) ANGUAGES ROGRAM ? L SS P Advanced: Croatian & Serbian Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Fourth- Beginning and Intermediate: Croatian, Polish, Serbian and Slovak Year Russian Beginning: Bulgarian, Hungarian and Ukrainian • Pittsburgh/Moscow 5+5 week program also available • Poland & Bulgaria abroad programs also available 7/18-8/12 �Cost: $2770 Generous scholarships available �Cost: $2134 Generous scholarships available for all languages �Fellowship deadline March 22. For more information please write or call: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 CL, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412)624-5906/Fax (412)624-9714/e-mail: [email protected] Visit our web page at: http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sli/
12 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER tions throughout the region. Graduate the introductory level for all languages. financial aid will be made by April 15, students participating in the Eurasian All CLI courses develop (writing, read- 2005. A letter of acceptance is routinely Regional Language program are eligible ing, listening, and speaking) skills in mailed within four weeks after receipt for full or partial scholarships from the the following areas of foreign language of an application for those who are not U.S. Department of State, Program for training: grammatical structures, the applying for financial aid. the Study of Eastern Europe and the lexicon, communicative competence, For more information, contact Independent States of the former Soviet cultural sensitivity, language norms. [email protected]. Union (Title VIII). Registration for 2005 CLI opens Janu- Dubravushka School Undergraduates who intend a career ary 15, 2005. Contact the institute at Experience has proved that getting in teaching are eligible for full or partial [email protected]., http://www.asu.edu/ potential Russian language students scholarships from the U.S. Department clas/reesc/cli/ to Russia is the best way to get such of Education for their participation. Ap- Beloit College students to take the Russian language plication deadlines for Summer: March The Center for Language Programs and, once having started it, to get them 1, 2005. at Beloit College is offering summer in- to continue with it. Title VIII South-East European tensive programs in Russian, Czech, and A prestigious college preparatory Language and Research Programs: Hungarian June 11-August 12, 2005. boarding school located just outside offers instruction at leading institutions These courses last either 4 ½ or 9 Moscow has a summer (June and July) in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bul- weeks. First through fourth year Russian program where English is taught to 150 garia, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, is offered, as is an advanced course in high school aged Russians. Because the and Serbia-Montenegro. political Russian. Hungarian and Czech school is anxious to expose these stu- Open to graduate students, Ph.D courses are at the beginning level. See dents to native English speakers, it of- candidates, faculty, and scholars with ad on page 8 of this issue of the AAT- fers beginning and intermediate Russian at least basic proficiency in the target SEEL Newsletter. lessons at what is in effect a subsidized language. Graduate students are eligible rate of $300/week (minimum stay two for U.S. Department of State, Program Bryn Mawr College Founded in 1977, the Russian Lan- weeks) to native English speaking high for the Study of Eastern Europe and school aged students. This fee includes the Independent States (Title VIII) guage Institute (RLI) at Bryn Mawr seeks to support the study and teaching room and board, Russian lessons and funding. airport pick up and drop off. Program features include round- of Russian in the United States by pro- viding an intensive-immersion setting For additional information, see trip international travel, housing, visas, www.dubravushka.ru or contact Bill insurance, tuition, and university affilia- for both teachers and learners of the language. The RLI offers an eight-week Grant, US Agent, at 941-351-1596 or tion. Application deadline for Summer: [email protected]. January 15, 2005. intensive immersion program for under- For more information, contact: graduate students, graduate students, Indiana University Outbound Programs, American Coun- and teachers, concentrating on language Indiana University’s Summer cils for International Education: ACTR/ training. Workshop in Slavic, East European, and ACCELS, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, All courses strongly emphasize the Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL) NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036; development of speaking, listening, will be held June 17-August 12, 2005. (202) 833-7522, outbound@americanc reading, and writing skills in Modern Fellowships are available; application ouncils.org. Standard Russian within the context of deadline is April 1, 2005. a systematic and structured approach Languages include Russian, Bos- Arizona State University to the mastery of Russian grammar and nian, Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Mace- The 2005 Critical Language In- vocabulary. donian, Polish, Romanian, Latvian, Es- stitute summer session will run from Financial aid is available to quali- tonian, Lithuanian, Yiddish, Georgian, May 31 to July 29, 2005. The fol- fied applications.Assistance awards are Azeri, Kazakh, Pashto, Tajik, Turkmen, lowing courses are offered: Albanian, based on academic merit and demon- Uyghur, and Uzbek. More informa- Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian strated need; priority for assistance is tion can be found at www.indiana. (BCS), Macedonian, Polish and Tatar. given to advanced-level students and edu/~iuslavic/swseel/. Tuition is waived for all CLI courses. to teachers of Russian. Middlebury College All CLI language courses are marked Determination of acceptance into The Middlebury College Russian by a hybrid design, comprising in-class the summer Russian language program School offers seven levels of intensive contact time, language lab activities, on- is made on a Rolling Admissions basis, undergraduate language instruction in line interactive exercises, and cultural except for those applying for financial its 9-week program (11 June - 12 August events. aid. 2005) and 6-week graduate courses (27 Courses are aimed at developing The deadline for turning in applica- June - 12 August 2005) in language, ILR level 1 to 1+ upon completion of tions is April 1, 2005. All decisions on literature, and civilization.
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For further information and ap- The Intensive basic course in the University of Pittsburgh plications contact Margot Bowden, Russian language focuses on commu- The University of Pittsburgh will Coordinator, Russian School, Freeman nication with attention to grammati- be offering six-week intensive courses International Center, Middlebury Col- cal accuracy. The class also works on in East European languages (Bulgarian, lege, Middlebury, VT 05753, telephone reading, listening, and writing. Video Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, 802-443-5533, or bowden@middlebury. is used throughout the course. Students and Slovak) at beginning, intermediate, edu, or Russian School Director Karen work with an experienced instructor and and/or advanced levels from June 6-July Evans-Romaine, Ohio University, at have one-on-one tutoring with a native 15, 2005. Scholarships are available. [email protected]. Information and speaker of Russian. See ad on page 12. applications are also available at the The Intensive Intermediate Russian The University of Pittsburgh will Middlebury Russian School website: focuses on furthering competency in also offer an eight-week intensive Rus- http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/russian. standard contemporary Russian. Ad- sian program at beginning, intermediate, Consideration of applications begins in ditional emphasis on reading and writ- advanced, and fourth-year levels from January 2005; apply early for financial ing skills. Exposure to Russian culture June 6-July 29, 2005. Scholarships are aid. through literature, films and other activi- available. See ad page 12. Monterey Institute of International ties. Students work with an experienced Programs in Polish and Russian Studies instructor and have one-on-one tutoring are also available in Poland and Russia Preparing to travel, study or work with a native speaker of Russian. through the University of Pittsburgh. in Russia? Take part in an intensive For more information, contact See ads on pages 12 and 24. Russian language study experience Olga Kagan, Ph.D., Director, Lan- Information is available at this summer at the Monterey Institute guage Resource Center, Coordina- [email protected]. of International Studies in beautiful tor, Russian Language Program,Tel. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Monterey, California. (310) 825-2947, Fax: (310) 206-5263, The University of Wisconsin-Mil- We offer an intensive eight-week E-mail: [email protected]; waukee announces its 2005 annual Russian language program at the be- [email protected]; Mailing address Summer Study in Poland program at the ginning, intermediate and advanced 2207 Hershey, UCLA, Los Angeles, Catholic University of Lublin. levels. In-class language study is CA 90095-1502; http://www.humnet. The five-week Polish language complemented by cultural activities and ucla.edu/flr; http://www.humnet.ucla. course (July 9 - August 16) includes opportunities to practice the language edu/russian; http://www.heritagelan- 100 hours of instruction at beginning, outside of class. We bring together mo- guages.org intermediate, or advanced levels, plus tivated students and skilled native-level University of Kansas lectures on Polish culture and sightsee- instructors in an intensive, small class The University of Kansas announc- ing. The program is open to students and environment that proves to be quite rig- es the 2005 Summer Institute of Pol- the general public. orous and demanding, yet most effective ish Language and Culture in Krakow, Also being offered this year are two, for language acquisition. Poland. Six-week (July 5 – August 15, three, and four-week courses as well as Make the most of your summer- 2005) summer program at the renowned two, three, four and five-week intensive study at MIIS! Also offered: Arabic, Jagiellonian University in the School and highly intensive courses of Polish Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japa- of Polish Language and Culture offers language. nese, Korean, and Spanish. Contact us an intensive Polish language course A new course on Polish culture (3 at 831-647-4115 or [email protected] for and additional culture courses in areas credits) is also offered during the first more information. of Polish art, history, music, film, and three weeks of the program and can be Martina Barth Director, Execu- literature. taken together with the Polish language tive and Foreign Language Programs, The program includes sightseeing course for the total of six credits (July Monterey Institute of International tours of Krakow and weekend trips to 11-30). Studies 460 Pierce Street Monterey, the Pieniny and Tatra Mountains, resort For further information or to request CA 93940 Tel: 831-647-6541; Fax: city of Zakopane, the Auschwitz Mar- application materials, contact Professor 831-647-3534 tyrdom Museum, the Pieskowa Skala Michael Mikos, Department of Foreign University of California at Castle, and other places of interest. Languages and Linguistics, University Los Angeles For more information please con- of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, University of California Los Ange- tact Prof. Andrzej Karcz, Dept. of WI 53201, (414) 229-4948, fax (414) les is planning 1st and 2d year Russian, Slavic Languages and Literatures, 229-2741, e-mail: [email protected], an intensive eight week course, it meets the University of Kansas, 1445 Jay- www.lrc.uwm.edu/tour/ five days a week four hours a day, and hawk Blvd., Room 2133, Lawrence, there is a tutor after class. 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PSYCHOLOGY Editor: Valery Belyanin OF (Moscow State University & LANGUAGE LEARNING Moscow State Ling. Univ.)
This column is intended to pro- possible when the quality of the acoustic In other words, noise affects the mote a dialogue for teachers of Slavic input is poor; several researchers have phoneme identification performance of languages regarding the psychological suggested that this is the explanation. native and non-native listeners rather aspect of language learning. The previous studies did not allow equivalently. Thus the especial dif- Submissions for future editions of a test of this explanation, because in ficulty of listening to the L2 in noise is this column should be sent electroni- all of them the speech materials were not because phonetic processing is more cally to [email protected]. real words in real sentences. Thus disrupted for L2 than for L1 listeners, noise could have affected not phoneme but because we cannot recover from perception but word recognition and these effects as well in our L2. syntactic processing. In the native language, we make Why is it so hard to One of those studies even provided effective use of contextual redundancy, understand a second a hint that sentence-level processing our knowledge of likely transitional might indeed be an important compo- probabilities, our large vocabulary, our language in noise? nent; Mayo et al. (1997) found that the greater syntactic flexibility; all this extra Anne Cutler biggest effects of noise on L2 versus L1 knowledge helps us to recover from the [email protected] listening occurred with sentences which effects of noise on phoneme identifica- Max Planck Institute for were highly predictable. This suggests tion. L2 listening does not have the Psycholinguistics that the L2 listeners were not exploiting resources to support such recovery. http://www.mpi.nl predictability as efficiently as the native No user of a second language listeners. References Cutler, Weber, Smits and Cooper (L2) needs to be told that L2 listening Cutler, A., Weber, A., Smits, R., & (2004) tested the phonetic explanation. becomes disproportionately difficult Cooper, N. (2004). Patterns of English They constructed syllables, consisting under noisy conditions. We are all fa- phoneme confusions by native and of a vowel plus consonant (e.g. uf, ig) miliar with the experience. Sitting in non-native listeners. Journal of the or a consonant plus vowel (e.g. foo, a noisy bar among a group talking in Acoustical Society of America, 116, ga) – all 645 such possible syllables one’s native language (L1) may be a 3668-3678. bit difficult, but it is certainly doable, using all the phonemes of American in fact it is usually fun. Sitting in the English. Each syllable was presented Gat, I.B., & Keith, R.W. (1978). An ef- same noisy environment with a group once for vowel identification and once fect of linguistic experience. Audiology, talking in one’s L2 is quite a different for consonant identification, in each of 17, 339-345. experience - hard, frustrating, eventu- three levels of noise – very mild (16 dB ally exhausting. signal to noise ratio), moderate (8 dB) Mayo, L.H., Florentine, M., & Buus, Even though no L2 user needs to and fairly severe (0 dB) – to American S. (1997). Age of seond-language ac- be convinced that this phenomenon is listeners and L2 listeners (Dutch, with quisition and perception of speech in real, every 10 years or so science dem- very good English). noise. Journal of Speech and Hearing onstrates it in the laboratory anyway The results were very clear. The Research, 40, 686-693. (Gat & Keith, 1978; Nabelek & Dona- noise affected the phoneme identifica- hue, 1984; Mayo, Florentine & Buus, tion of the L2 listeners; their perfor- Nábělek, A.K., & Donahue, A.M. 1997). But just why is L2 listening in mance dropped from 68% under mild (1984). Perception of consonants in noise so hard? noise to 62% under moderate and 50% reverberation by native and non-native One possibility is breakdown of correct under severe noise. However, listeners. Journal of the Acoustical So- phoneme perception. We know that L2 it also affected the performance of the ciety of America, 75, 632-634. L1 listeners: they dropped from 81% listeners misperceive speech sounds Strange, W. (1995). Speech percep- to 76% to 63%. The L2 listeners in fact (see Strange, 1995, for reviews); the tion and linguistic experience: Issues performed at about 80% of native per- difficulty of English r/l for Chinese and in cross-language speech research. formance at every noise level, i.e. the Japanese listeners, for instance, is leg- Timonium, MD: York Press. endary. Perhaps higher-quality acoustic effect of noise on the L2 listeners’ iden- input allows L2 listeners to achieve tifications was not disproportionate. phoneme discriminations which are im-
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Editor: Olga Livshin GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM Northwestern University
Question: to approach this (and all advising The AATSEEL and the editors of the “I am teaching my own class, and matters) not merely from one’s own AATSEEL Newsletter would like to a few students have approached me in personal experience and perspective. thank our colleagues who serve as office hours in the capacity of a mentor, Explain to your students who express advisors to the Graduate Student some asking for advice about the pres- an interest in graduate study in Slavic Forum. They include Thomas Beyer sures of being a college student and oth- how you approached this same ques- (Middlebury College); Robert Chan- ers, about applying to graduate schools. tion, how you searched for a program non (Purdue University); Joan Che- While I am excited to gain experience that would be a good fit for you, how valier (Brandeis University); Halina in this role and happy that my students you applied, and so forth. Explain also Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin trust me enough to ask these kinds how other individuals made different at Madison); Beth Holmgren (Uni- of questions, I am a little concerned choices and enrolled in other programs. versity of North Carolina at Chapel about potential pitfalls. My students Provide your students with the link to Hill); James Levin (George Mason sometimes talk to me about personal the AATSEEL website’s list of gradu- University); Benjamin Rifkin (Uni- matters. Where does one draw the line, ate programs (www.aatseel.org/depart- versity of Wisconsin at Madison); given that personal and academic is- ments/grad-programs.html) and offer Ernest Scatton (State University of sues sometimes overlap? How can I to help your student reach individuals New York at Albany), and Irwin Weil avoid being manipulated with regard at some of these programs (if you know (Northwestern University). Look for to grades, given the proximity in age them). Don’t pressure your students to their responses to new questions in to my students and the familiarity and apply to one or another program; let future issues of the AATSEEL News- friendliness that often results in advis- them make their own choices based on letter. ing? Is there anything that I can do if I their own interests. It is, however, useful give a student the wrong advice?” to share with your students questions When questions transcend the they may want to ask of faculty in any academic, we Slavists are on very thin Answer (Benjamin Rifkin): graduate program, such as questions ice. Students who admire and trust their about the breadth and depth of faculty Many teachers find it gratifying teachers may turn to us for questions of expertise, average number of years to when students turn to us with ques- a very personal nature. It may be gratify- degree, required courses, placement tions on topics that extend beyond the ing to be asked such questions but we record, mentoring for publication and parameters of the course we are teach- are in no means trained (or insured!) to grant proposals, teaching experience, ing. Questions about graduate school answer them. Every teacher should col- and so forth. are exciting because they usually indi- lect information about the advising and Many of us are also qualified to give cate that students are passionate about counseling resources for students on his/ students advice about study strategies the very course we are teaching them. her campus and have that information and skills. This is not uniformly the However, there are dangers in providing ready and available at the first indication case, so if you do not feel confident ad- students with advice on matters outside that a student needs it. I provide teach- vising students how to go about study- our expertise. In this essay, I will offer ing assistants at UW-Madison with a list ing a foreign language at the college you advice based on my experience that includes resources on our campus level, find out what kind of centers on dealing with questions like the ones you for students with emotional, financial, your campus provide this support and have posed. health, legal, and academic problems, keep their contact information handy. We are, of course, the best advisors resources for students who want to (Virtually every campus has a teaching for questions about the languages and figure out what is their best choice and learning center of some kind that cultures we are teaching. I don’t think for a major or a career, resources for offers support for students seeking help this a controversial question and there- students with disabilities (or students in managing the challenges of college.) fore won’t dwell on it at all. who think they may have a disability) There are some good websites with gen- We are among the best-qualified and for students who need tutoring or eral tips (e.g., http://www.studygs.net/) people to offer students advice about help with writing. Most campuses have and some websites that offer sugges- applying to graduate school in the a similar array of resources and it may tions specifically for foreign language Slavic field. Graduate student teach- be difficult for students to know where study (e.g., materials that I created are ing assistants have gone through this to turn for appropriate help; you can available at the UW-Madison Language process successfully and recently and help direct them to talk with someone Institute at www.languageinstitute. can speak from their own personal who is trained to help them with their wisc.edu/content/uw_students/strate- experience. However, it is important problem. If you try to help directly, gies_for_learning_uw_students.htm). without referring them to someone who 16 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER is trained to counsel and advise, you not drink with your students (especially scholarly community of people working may do more harm than good and you since many of them may be under 21, on linguistic problems of the Slavic lan- may open yourself and your institution which raises still other legal problems). guages. Membership is free and open to up to legal liability problems. If your It is fun and productive to have social all, regardless of theoretical or method- students need emotional counseling, occasions for your classes, but make ological orientation, professional status, encourage them to seek it out. Remind these class events for all students who or geographic location. them that such counseling is often free can attend (not just for a few who are Our first goal is to set up web pages to enrolled students in your college or invited to attend) and use these events as of potential use to Slavic linguists. university (and very expensive once an opportunity to build community. Be These will be maintained by Gil Rap- they graduate); usually counseling is mindful of the fact that your relationship paport at the University of Texas. So completely confidential, too. Assure with these students should be analogous if you are interested in joining all you them that there is no stigma in reaching to the relationship you will have with need to do is send him an e-mail, at out for help and that it is, in fact, a sign students 10 or 20 years from now in that
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Editor: Mila Saskova-Pierce Czech Corner (University of Nebraska)
Editor's Note: This corner is for teach- • Scholarly and popular works The criteria are the result of delib- ers of the Czech language, and I would in Czech literary, linguistic, eration among the Executive Commit- like to invite them to share their news, pedagogical or cultural studies tee members. views, and experience related to the are eligible, as are books where teaching of various kinds of courses Czech comprises a significant Summer courses in the Czech dealing with Czech culture, language, portion of the topic (i.e. in com- Republic and literature. Contributions do not parison with one or two other Summer courses outside of Prague have to be limited to the United States; fields); Brno they can and should include issues of • Books must have been pub- Department of Czech for Foreign- Czech language and culture instruction lished in the previous two ers, Masaryk University throughout the whole world. Contri- years, e.g. 2003-2004 for the For information, e-mail to: butions to the Czech Corner may be sent prize to be awarded in 2005; [email protected] to the column editor at mzs@unlserve. unl.edu. • Prize to alternate between books published in Czech České Budějovice Summer School of Slavonic Stud- The International Association of and books published in other languages. The Association may ies, South Bohemia University Teachers of Czech News decline to judge a book if it can- August 23 – September 10, 2004 The IATC invites you to join. The not reasonably find qualified http://www.pf.jcu.cz/stru/kat- dues give you a free subscription to the judges in its membership who edry/cj/lsss04.phtml Czech Language News for 2005 and the read a particular language; rates are as follows: Olomouc • Membership in IATC is not Summer School of Slavic Languag- Institutional: $75 required for entry; es, Palacký University (750 Kcs, 40 GBP) • Authors can nominate their July 25 – August 20, 2004 Individual, regular: $20 own books, or books can be http://lsss.upol.cz/ (150 Kcs, 10 GBP) nominated by IATC members in Individual, student: $8 good standing; Introductory Czech program run (80 Kcs, 4 GBP ) • Three judges will be appointed by the Ohio State University by the Executive Committee of Summer School of Slavic Languag- To receive the best in Czech peda- IATC, with the expectation that es, Palacký University gogy news, please write a check for all submissions will be read by July 25 – August 20, 2004 the appropriate amount payable to at least two of the three. Contact person: Jeff McKibben at [email protected] The University of Texas at Austin and • Judges will serve for three send to: years. In the first instance, we IATC c/o Craig Cravens, Depart- Plzeň will appoint judges to one two-, University of West Bohemia, Inter- ment of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, one three- and one four-year Calhoun 415, F3600, The University national Summer Language School term, so that turnover will be July 11 - 31, 2004 of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78713, gradual. United States http://www.people.memphis.edu/ • Judges will be eligible for reap- ~cehall/summer.html IATC-November Fund Prize pointment. Reported by Neil Bermeil • Judges may delegate respon- Summer courses in Prague The IATC, in collaboration with the sibility to outside readers in Caledonian School charitable foundation The November the case of books in languages http://www.caledonianschool. Fund (www.novemberfund.org), pro- other than English and Czech, com/intensive/intensive.en.html poses to offer a yearly book prize for or if expertise is needed in a Czech studies. particular subdiscipline. Charles University, Ústav jazykové a odborné přípravy. It plans to judge and administer the • The panel of judges shall agree Various types of language courses prize as follows: on their own criteria and report both in Prague and elsewhere in the • Amount of $400; to the Executive Committee Czech • Awarded yearly, beginning in on how the final decision was Republic http://www.ujop.cuni. 2005; reached. cz/ 18 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER
Charles University, Summer School of Slavonic Stud- ies M I D D L E B U R Y C O L L E G E Contact person Dagmar Sýkorová : mailto:dagmar. sykorova@ff.cuni.cz;
Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) The Russian Study Center in Prague http://www.ciee.org School • Study Russian in Vermont next summer Jerome of Prague College (Collegium Hieronymi Pra- gensis) • Nine-week intensive language session equivalent to Courses in Czech language, film, history and politics a year of undergraduate college Russian June 21 – August 6, 2004 http://www.chp.cz • Six-week graduate session leading to an M.A. in Russian from Middlebury Summer Prague University Courses in Czech language and culture • Summer 2005 graduate courses in civilization, July 5-30 and August 2-27, 2004 literature and language taught by top-notch faculty http://www.sfservis.com/en/spuinfo.html from Russian and American institutions.
Semester and academic year only: New York University • Financial aid available based on financial need in Prague http://www.nyu.edu/global/prague/
For language schools in the Czech Republic, see also The School the listings at http://www.caramba.cz/page.php?PgID=249 in Russia • Semester and academic year programs in Moscow, Summer courses in the United States Irkutsk, and Yaroslavl Beloit College Introductory Czech, taught at Beloit College • Graduate study in Moscow June 26 - August 6, 2004 • Internships available http://www.beloit.edu/~cls
Indiana University Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages (SWSEEL) Introductory Czech, taught at Indiana University June 18- August 13, 2004 http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/
University of Washington, Seattle Introductory Czech, taught at University of Washing- ton June 21st - August 20th, 2004 Contact person: Jaroslava Soldanova at jsoldan@hotmail. com Funding opportunities American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ ACCELS) Middlebury College Includes a Central Europe Language program and a Central Europe Research program. http://www.american- Language Schools & councils.org/ Schools Abroad Middlebury,Vermont 05753 • (802) 443-5510 www.middlebury.edu/ls • [email protected]
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Editor: Alla Nedashkivska Ukrainian Issues (University of Alberta)
Editor’s Note: The Ukrainian column guage is one of the most important in the learners can be exposed to this continues its discussion of issues related the language-learning continuum. Apart grammatical feature of the language to learning and teaching Ukrainian from acquiring reading and writing prior to formal explanations. language, culture and literature. In skills, the students begin to develop • The conciseness and simplicity of this issue, Oksana Babenko, a graduate the abilities to speak, understand, and grammatical structures, used by the student of Slavic applied linguistics at function in the target language. The authors of personal ads, provide the University of Alberta, presents her majority of thematic topics, covered learners with authentic examples for thoughts on how research in gender during the first semester, evolve around describing the self and the desired linguistics could be brought into the the learner about him-/herself, as well partner, as well as how to bring a language classroom. as his/her family and friends (for ex- message across. If you would like to share your insights ample, topics such as: about the self, • The pragmatic aspect of using per- on some specific issues related to meth- everyday activities and chores, hobbies sonal ads as a source of learning odologies, techniques, and curricula and pastimes, family members, appear- materials is evident in the fact that development, as well as specific ques- ance and character traits, etc.). In other male and female authors choose to tions that repeatedly arise in Ukrai- words, students start to function in the employ those attributes/descriptors in nian language, culture and literature medium of a foreign language while their ads, which are used in society to classrooms, please send them to the exploring the self through the medium describe speakers of a certain sex. address below. Already there are several of a foreign language. Therefore, the • As a cultural element, the students questions that await discussion, among more the learning materials and activi- can learn which aspects of the self them: dialectal and regional variations ties in the beginners’ class are centered the authors of personal ads choose of Ukrainian, changes and innova- around the learners’ self and their sig- to offer and how they stipulate their tions in the language, the diversity of nificant other(s), the more effective the desired partners; that is, what is per- registers, the integration of cultural learning process is likely to become. To ceived to be acceptable to talk about information in the classroom, and the test this hypothesis and, thus, to make and negotiate. development of content-based courses. my teaching effective, I have been • The instructor can pick up examples Alla Nedashkivska, alla. implementing a variety of activities and of personal ads with elements of hu- [email protected] teaching materials, which have proved mor in them, which make the learning to be successful in the classroom. In process enjoyable and interesting. Ukrainian Personal Ads & particular, I have made good use of Personal Approach in Teaching authentic Ukrainian personal ads in my Possible activities include: Ukrainian introductory class, creating a number of • Individual type of an activity: Oksana Babenko, different activities. 1) The students are asked to com- University of Alberta Allow me to share some of my ideas pose their own personal ad in a on why and how the use of personal ads foreign language. My teaching experience in an intro- can be beneficial in the classroom: ductory Ukrainian language classroom, 2) The students are asked to • Personal ads are a good source of compose the initial reply to an as well as my research experience in ap- teaching new vocabulary in context. plied linguistics, began at the University authentic personal ad of their Consider, for example, the following choice, which can be easily of Alberta at approximately the same vocabulary clusters: physical quali- time, in the fall of 2003. At that time, I found, for example, on the ties of a person, in particular, phrases Internet. was unsure of how my research on gen- and attributes of appearance, height, der identity and language would aid me weight and age; emotional qualities • Pair-type of an activity: as a continu- in teaching beginners’ Ukrainian course; and character traits; attributes of ation of the previous exercise (1), the especially, taking into account that the social (education, occupation, job), students’ ads in a foreign language data for my research are drawn from financial and marital status; favorite are posted on a board. Each student personal ads posted by Ukrainian men activities and hobbies; addictions, is to choose one and compose a reply and women on the Internet. Now, a year etc. to it. Note: the goal, which can be later, both my teaching and research not • The use of personal ads is especially mentioned in these ads, is not neces- only go hand-in-hand, but also comple- beneficial in teaching a foreign lan- sarily to be that of marriage or creat- ment and benefit each other. guage, in which a grammatical dis- ing a family; it can be, for example, To my mind, an introductory level tinction between male and female looking for a friend to share common of teaching and learning a foreign lan- speakers / addressees exists. Thus, interests, a pastime companion, a pen-pal or even a study-buddy. 20 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER
• Group-type activity: involves participation of all the students. The students are divided into two groups – for instance, but not necessarily, of males and females. Each group is assigned a project to develop a joint personal ad. Master of Arts Program in After a while, both groups present their projects of personal ads. Apart from practicing vocabulary and grammatical Russian, structures in context, the students enjoy finding out dif- East European, ferences and similarities in providing information on the self and stipulating the ideal partner, as displayed in the a n d male students’ and the female students’ personal ads. Central Asian I have tested the use of authentic personal ads and found them to be very helpful in teaching students vocabulary related Studies to appearance and character traits, as well as presenting gram- matical structures in context. I can conclude that judiciously employed personal ads can serve as a pleasant intervention At the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a multi-purpose tool in the language classroom. Recent Publications Continued The MA Program in Russian, East European, Continued from page 8 and Central Asian Studies provides Literature interdisciplinary area studies training for Crone, Anna Lisa & Jennifer J. Day. 2004. My Petersburg/My- students interested in pursuing professional self: Mental Architecture and Imaginative Space in Modern careers in business, government, journalism, Russian Letters. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. law, or further graduate study in another Keenan, Edward L. 2004. Josef Dobrovsky and the Origins established academic discipline. of the Igor’s Tale. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Smotrytskyi, Meletti. 2004. Rus’ Restored: Selected Writings The program is based in the Center for of Meletij Smotryc’kyj, (1610/1630). Cambridge, MA: Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, but Harvard University Press. students will have the opportunity to work with nationally recognized scholars in a Military Affairs Abbott, P., O. Rudenko, and D. Adamenko. 2004. Ukrainian variety of departments. Armies 1914-55. UK: Osprey Publishing. Littman, Sol. 2003. Pure Soldiers or Bloodthirsty Murder- We regularly offer Czech, Finnish, Kazak, ers?: The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Galicia Division. Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Black Rose Books. Turkish, and Uzbek. Music Bezuglova, I. 2003. Notye izdanij v muzykal’noj zhizni Rosii. For more information contact: St. Petersburg: Rosijskaja natsional’naja biblioteka. Center for Russia, East Europe, Cooley, Timothy J. 2005. Making Music In The Polish Ta- and Central Asia tras: Tourists, Ethnographers, And Mountain Musicians. 210 Ingraham Hall Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 1155 Observatory Drive Thomas, Adrian and Arnold Whittall. 2005. Polish Music Madison, WI 53706 since Szymanowski. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univer- sity Press. Marochkin, Vladimir. 2003. Povsedevnaja zhizn’ rosijskogo Phone: (608) 262-3379 rokmuzikanta. Moscow. Fax: (608) 265-3062 E-mail:[email protected] Pedagogy Leaver, Betty Lou & Boris Shekhtman, eds. 2004. Teaching and Learning to the Near-Native Level of Foreign-Lan- guage Proficiency: Proceedings of Spring and Fall 2003 Conferences of the Coalition of Distinguished Language www.wisc.edu/creeca Centers. Salinas, CA: MSI Press.
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Call for Papers AATSEEL National Meeting Washington, DC, 27-30 December 2005 The AATSEEL National Meeting is drama), Periods (medieval to contem- reception, workshops (publishing in the a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas porary), Culture, Film, Dance, Music, field, interviewing, teaching Russian at in all areas of Slavic and East/Central Philosophy, and Religion. the pre-college level). Details will fol- European languages, literatures, lin- low in the coming months. guistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in Conference Theme Submission of Abstracts these and related areas to form panels For 2005 the Program Commit- The program committee invites around specific topics, organize round- tee would like to announce a special panel organizers to shape their own table discussions, propose forums on theme: Undergraduate Education in complete panels and to submit abstracts instructional materials, and/or submit Slavic Programs. The Program envis- from all authors in the panel as a group. abstracts of conference presentations for ages a broad range of issues and top- In that case, the Program Committee the 2005 Conference to be held in Wash- ics for potential panels, roundtables, will submit together all the abstracts ington, DC. The conference regularly and workshops, including, but not intended for a single panel for double- includes panels in the following areas: limited to: Recruitment and retention blind peer review; each abstract will be of students; Curriculum and pedagogy reviewed both on its own merits and in the teaching of language, literature within the context of the intended panel. Linguistics and culture; Outcomes Assessment If authors for such a panel submit their Phonology, Morphology, Syn- broadly conceived to include the role abstracts separately, they need only tax, Historical Linguistics, Discourse of Slavic and East European studies in indicate the name of the panel when Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Dia- undergraduate education as a whole; they submit the abstract. The Program lectology, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive the special situation of the Less Com- Committee will consult with panel orga- Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and monly Taught Slavic Languages. We nizers about the composition of panels Linguistics and Pedagogy. strongly encourage participation from and will not break up panels shaped by diverse institutions with diverse student organizers. profiles in conference events addressing Abstract authors should note that Pedagogy these themes. submission of an abstract to a panel organizer or panel chair does not con- Second Language Acquisition, Em- The Program Committee welcomes stitute submission to the conference. pirical Studies in Language Learning, suggestions for other panels, round- Authors should verify that the panel or- Study Abroad, Teaching of Individual tables, or forums on instructional ma- ganizer/chair intends to submit abstracts Skills (pronunciation, reading, listen- terials. Panel organizers should contact as a group to the appropriate Division ing, writing, speaking), Content-based one of the committee members below Head. Panel chairs are not permitted to Instruction (in film, history, politics, to declare a panel, and the program read a paper on their own panel. culture, literature, etc.), Curriculum committee encourages panel organiz- Scholars are welcomed to submit Design, Language Teaching for Special ers to take an active part in recruiting abstracts for a specific panel (or panels) Purposes, Teaching of Languages other participants to submit abstracts for their or to the conference as a whole. The than Russian (Polish, Czech, Croatian, specific panels. Declared panels will Program Committee will find a panel Romanian, etc.), Use of Technology in be listed on the conference section of for every abstract accepted. Language Teaching. the AATSEEL website (www.aatseel. org). We will continue to accept panel Abstract deadlines are 15 April proposals until 1 August. and 1 August. The first deadline al- Literature and Culture lows for revision and resubmission of Special Events abstracts, should reviewers deem that Individual Writers and Poets (such The AATSEEL Executive Council necessary. The second deadline does as, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, and the Program Committee are work- not allow for resubmission. Abstracts Axmatova, Bulgakov, Nabokov and oth- ing to organize a number of special should be kept to 300-500 words (in- ers), Themes (for example, history and events for the 2005 conference. These cluding select bibliographic citations literature, travelogues, gendered read- will include a Keynote Address “What’s in the accepted MLA format). Detailed ings), Critical approaches (including In a Name? The Linguistic and Cultural guidelines for abstracts and published various theoretical approaches), Genre Boundaries of AATSEEL” by Alexander program abstracts from past years are (for example, avtorskaja pesnja, ode, M. Schenker (Yale University), special available on the AATSEEL website.
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The Program Committee notes University of Kansas Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh that all conference participants must 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2135 Address: Department of Slavic Lan- be AATSEEL members in good stand- Lawrence, KS 66045 guages, 1417 Cathedral of Learning, ing for 2005 or request a membership Phone: 785-864-4701 (office), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, waiver. Membership (which is based on 785-864-3313 (dept) PA 15260 the calendar year) can be renewed by Fax: 785-864-4298 Telephone: 412-624-5712 regular mail or on-line on the AATSEEL Email: [email protected] Fax: 412-624-9714 website. Authors must be members Email: [email protected] in good standing or have a waiver in Pedagogy Brief Description: This panel presents order to receive the results of abstract Dr. Eloise M. Boyle linguistic papers based on evidence review. 14548 86th Pl NE from early Slavic manuscripts and Kenmore, WA 98028 other early written materials. Division Heads Phone: 206-612-5578 Linguistics Fax: 425-483-3142 Roundtable Title: Translating Baj Prof. Daniela S. Hristova Email: [email protected] Ganjo Department of Slavic Languages Name: Catherine Rudin and Literatures Correspondence and submissions Affiliation: Wayne State College University of Chicago of panels and abstracts by e-mail are Address: Department of Language 1130 East 59th Street preferred, but submissions by regular and Literature, Wayne State College, Chicago, IL 60637 post and fax are also acceptable. 1111 Main St., Wayne, NE 68787 Phone: 773-702-8033 Telephone: 402-375-7026 Fax 773-702-7030 Panels Proposed as of Fax: 402-375-7130 Email: [email protected] January 18, 2005 Email: [email protected] Linguistics Brief Description: Aleko Konstanti- Literature and Culture Panel Title: The Language of Early nov’s classic Baj Ganjo stories were Prof. William J. Comer Slavic Manuscripts recently translated and edited by a Department of Slavic Languages Chair: David J. Birnbaum group of 6 linguists. Aside from
STUDY RUSSIAN IN RUSSIA www.russian-language.ru • Intensive Language & Area Studies programs for Semester, Academic Year, Summer • Preparation courses for the State Exam in Russian - TORFL ( Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) & Exam at the school premises • Language programs for Heritage speakers For further information, please contact: GRINT Centre for Education and Culture Russia, Moscow, Unosty str. 5/1, bl.6, of.35 Phone: 7-095-374-74-30 • Fax: 7-095-374-73-66 E-mail: [email protected]
24 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER the challenge of achieving uniform Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] style in a group translation, issues we Brief Description: The papers present- Brief Description: Analytical or de- confronted included how to render ed at this panel will focus on sentence scriptive studies of problems in word 19th century colloquial Bulgarian processing, L1 and L2 language formation, or the interaction between in 21st century English, how to give acquisition, bilingualism, and L1 attri- word formation and other components the flavor of Turkish loans and other tion of Slavic languages. of the grammar, in any of the Slavic stylistically loaded words, idioms, and languages. names; moving between characters’ Panel Title: The Structure of the and narrator’s voices, and whether to Slavic Noun Phrase Panel Title: Lithuanian Syntax follow the original or adapt to English Chair: Gilbert Rappaport Chair: James E. Lavine norms in areas ranging from punctua- Affiliation: University of Texas at Affiliation: Bucknell University tion to the use of historical present Austin Address: Linguistics Program, Buck- tense. The roundtable will address Address: Department of Slavic and nell University, Moore Ave., VAUG these and related issues in translating Eurasian Studies, University of Texas 239 Lewisburg, PA 17837 and publishing a Slavic classic. at Austin, Austin, TX 78713-7217 Telephone: 570-577-3734 Telephone: 512-471-3607 Fax: 570-577-1948 Panel Title: Sociolinguistics in the Fax: 512-471-6710 Email: [email protected] Slavic-Speaking World Email: [email protected] Brief Description: Topics in the syntax Chair: Laura A. Janda Brief Description: Papers solicited in- of Lithuanian as they relate to recent Affiliation: University of North Caro- vestigating the referential or syntactic developments in syntactic theory lina - Chapel Hill structure of Noun Phrases in a single Address: Slavic Dept, CB# 3165, Slavic language or on a comparative Roundtable Title: Speech and Lan- UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3165 basis. guage of Heritage Learners and their Telephone: 919-962-7549 Parents Fax: 919-962-2278 Panel Title: Emotions in Language or Chair: Marina Rojavin Email: [email protected] Semantics, pragmatics and syntax of Affiliation: Temple University, Phila- Brief Description: This panel will concession delphia cover issues of language and ethnic Chair: Valentina Apresjan Address: Temple University, Depart- identity both in the Slavic countries Affiliation: Russian Language Insti- ment of French, Italian, German, and and in diaspora. tute Slavic , 532 Anderson Hall, Philadel- Address: 119334 ul.ak.Zelinskogo phia, PA 19122-6090 Panel Title: Slavic Diachronic Mor- 38-8-47 Telephone: 215-204-1929 phosyntax Telephone: 7-095-201-25-87 Fax: 215-204-7752 Chair: Daniela S. Hristova Fax: 7-095-201-25-87 Email: [email protected] Affiliation: University of Chicago Email: [email protected] Brief Description: Linguistic features Address: Department of Slavic Lan- Brief Description: Emotions in Lan- of heritage learners of Slavic Lan- guages and Literatures, 1130 East guage - semantics of emotion words, guages in terms of lexicon, semantics, 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 emotion metaphors, various other syntax, and morphology. Correlation Telephone: 773-702-0035 ways of verbally expressing emotion, between family educational and lan- Fax: 773-702-7030 ethno- and linguospecific aspects of guage background, their social status Email: [email protected] emotions. Semantics, pragmatics and and students proficiency in heritage Brief Description: This panel presents syntax of concession - the concept of language. Practical implications for linguistic papers covering issues of concession, semantics, pragmatics, teaching heritage students. historical morphosyntax in various syntax of various concessives, typol- Slavic languages. ogy of concession, ethnolinguistic Panel Title: Gender as Category in aspect of concession Modern Slavic Languages Panel Title: Experimental Slavic Psy- Coordinator: Marina Rojavin cholinguistics Panel or Forum Title: Slavic Word Affiliation: Temple University, Phila- Chair: Irina A. Sekerina Formation delphia Affiliation: City University of New Chair: George Fowler Address: Temple University, Depart- York Affiliation: Indiana University ment of French, Italian, German, and Address: College of Staten Island, De- Address: Dept of Slavic Languages, Slavic , 532 Anderson Hall, Philadel- partment of Psychology, 2800 Victory Ballantine 502, Indiana University, phia, PA 19122-6090 Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10314 Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 Telephone: 215-204-1929 Telephone: 718-982-3760 Telephone: 1-812-855-2829 (office) Fax: 215-204-7752 Fax: 718-982-4114 Fax: 1-812-855-2107 Email: [email protected]
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Panel Title: Corpora of Texts and Address: Harvard University, Depart- Panel Title: Polish Literature and Databases in Slavic ment of Slavic Languages and Litera- Culture Name: Valery Solovyev tures, 12 Quincy St., Barker Center, Chair: Andrzej Karcz Affiliation: Kazan State University Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 Affiliation: University of Kansas Address: p/b 93, Kazan, 420101, Rus- Telephone: 617-495-4065 Address: Department of Slavic Lan- sia Fax: 617-496-4466 guages and Literatures , University of Telephone: 7-843-261-69-14 Email: [email protected] Kansas, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room Email: [email protected] 2133, Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, Panel Titles: U.S.A. Panel Title: The Sociolinguistics of 1. Clitics in Slavic Languages Telephone: 785-864-2351 Inter-Slavic Language Contact 2. Questions in Slavic Languages Fax: 785-864-4298 Name: Joan Chevalier Coordinator: Steven Franks Email: [email protected] Affiliation: Brandeis University Affiliation: Indiana University-Bloo- Address: 415 South St., Brandeis minton Panel Title: Russian Poetry Reading University, MS 024, Waltham, MA Address: Dept. of Linguistics, 1021 E. Chair: Andrey Gritsman 02434-9110 3rd Street, Memorial Hall East, Room Affiliation: Independent Scholar Telephone: 781-736-3223 322, Indiana University, Bloomington Address: 21 Marcotte Lane, Tenafly, Fax: 781-736-3207 IN 47405-7005 NJ 07670 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 812-855-8169 Telephone: 201-568-3176 Fax: 812-855-5363 Fax: 201-447-8657 Panel Title: Slavic Phonology Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Chair: Christina Y. Bethin Affiliation: Stony Brook University Literature and Culture Pedagogy Address: Department of Linguistics, Panel Title: Chekhov Roundtable Title: Models of Instruc- Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, Chair: Tetyana V. Varenychenko tion in Teaching Polish NY 11794-4376 Affiliation: Holy Family University Coordinator: Andrzej Karcz Telephone: 631-632-7370 Address: 10242 Selmer Terrace, Phila- Affiliation: University of Kansas Fax: 631-632-9789 delphia, PA 19116-3634 Address: Department of Slavic Lan- Email: christina.bethin@stonybrook. Telephone: 215-969-2297 guages and Literatures , University of edu Fax: 215-633-0558 Kansas, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room Email: [email protected] 2133, Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, Panel Title: Ellipsis in Slavic Lan- U.S.A. guages Panel Title: The North American Telephone: 785-864-2351 Chair: Lydia Grebenyova Chekhov Society Fax: 785-864-4298 Affiliation: University of Maryland Chair: Carol Apollonio Flath Email: [email protected] Address: Dept. of Linguistics, Univer- Affiliation: Duke University sity of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Address: Department of Slavic Lan- Roundtable Title: Czech Studies in Hall, College Park, MD 20742 guages and Literature, Box 90259, American Higher Education (spon- Telephone: 301-405-4936 Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 sored by International Association of Fax: 301-405-7104 Telephone: 919-660-3143 Teachers of Czech) Email: [email protected] Email: fl[email protected] Chair: Neil Bermel, University of Brief Description: The panel will Sheffield. address various ellipsis phenomena Panel Title: St. Petersburg in Twenti- Address: Department of Russian and in Slavic languages (e.g., sluicing, eth-Century Russian Literature: Elena Slavonic Studies, Arts Tower, Western nominal ellipsis, gapping, among oth- Guro and Tatiana Tolstaia Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN U.K. ers). We hope for a productive session Chair: Milica Banjanin Telephone: 011-44-114-222-7405 where many challenging issues would Affiliation: Washington University Fax: 011-44-114-222-7416 get a careful look from comperative, Address: Department of Russian, Email: n.bermel@sheffield.ac.uk theoretical and psycholinguistic per- Campus Box 1052, Washington Brief Description: Representatives spectives. University, One Brookings Drive, St. from various programs focusing on Louis, Missouri 63130 Czech language and literature will dis- Panel Title: Language Policy and Telephone: 314-935-4557 cuss the current state and prospects for Planning in Eastern Europe and Eur- Fax: 314-935-4557 the field, as well as the possibilities asia. Email: [email protected] for international cooperation and the Chair Name: Curt Woolhiser involvement of the Czech Republic. Affiliation: Harvard University
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Workshop Title: Using the Czech Editor: Curt Woolhiser National Corpus for Research and Teaching (sponsored by International BELARUSICA (Harvard University) Association of Teachers of Czech) Organizer: Neil Bermel, University of The Belarusica column will return in colleagues are especially appreciated. Sheffield. April. The editor would like to encour- (Contributions should be no more than Address: Department of Russian and age all readers working in this area to 1-2 pages in length.) Please also keep in Slavonic Studies, Arts Tower, Western make submissions, preferably by the mind AATSEEL Newsletter requirements Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN U.K. end of December, and to encourage for publication found elsewhere in this Telephone: 011-44-114-222-7405 colleagues in related fields to do the issue: Cyrillic only with Macintosh fonts Fax: 011-44-114-222-7416 same. (include fonts that are not resident to Email: n.bermel@sheffield.ac.uk Word programs), deadline 6-8 weeks in Brief Description: A demonstration The Belarusica column editor is look- advance of the issue month. For more of how the Czech National Corpus ing for contributions to this column. information, contact Dr. Curt Woolhiser, can be used for linguistic research and Contributions from North American [email protected]. for pedagogical purposes, both on the part of the teacher and as an object of inquiry for students. A variety of re- Sending News to the AATSEEL NL search contexts and search types will News from the membership is always welcome. For the most sure form of be represented. delivery, it is best to send the information to the editor (Leaver@AOL. com). We always confirm receipt of information; no confirmation means that we did Note: This Call for Papers was cur- not receive your missive. rent as of January 16, 2005. Check the The kinds of news that we accept include awards, obituaries, projects of AATSEEL website (http://www.aatseel. interest to the membership as a whole (or information needed from the mem- org) for updates. bership as a whole), and summer and winter program announcements. Additionally, a number of the column editors accept articles from read- ers. Please check the individual columns for contact information and specific content needs.
Slavic & East European S u m m e r L a n g u a g e I n s t i t u t e SLIUniversity of Pittsburgh • 2005 STUDYSTUDY POLISHPOLISH ININ PITTSBURGHPITTSBURGH && POLANDPOLAND 6 weeks - Pittsburgh — (June 6 - July 15, 2005) 4 weeks - Lodz, Poland — (July 16 - August 13, 2005)* Intensive Courses on the Beginning and Intermediate Levels * Students demonstrating adequate academic preparation may join the course in Poland � Cost: Pitt/Poland - $4476, plus airfare**; Poland only - $2098; Pittsburgh only - $2134 (Generous scholarships available) ** Dates and costs are approximate � Application and fellowship deadline March 22. For information write or call: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 CL, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412)624-5906 / Fax (412)624-9714 / e-mail: [email protected] Visit our web page at: http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sli/
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Lecturer in Russian (www.asu.edu/reesc) announces an EMPLOYMENT University of Washington opening effective summer 2005 for a The University of Washington renewable fiscal year appointment as as- OPPORTUNITIES Department of Slavic Languages and sistant director of its Critical Languages Literatures is hiring a Lecturer in Rus- Institute (CLI). Editor's Note: This column prints job sian. The position will be a three-year For additional information please advertisements that are sent in by po- renewable contract, with the possibility contact REESC Director, Dr. Ste- tential employers. Information about of promotion to Senior Lecturer; initial phen Batalden by e-mail (stephen. possible job openings must arrive no appointment will run from September [email protected]), or phone 480-965- later than six weeks before the date of 2005 through June 2008. Summer 4188. the issue. For that reason, employment employment is optional for additional The position is 100% FTE for sum- possibilities with quick turnaround salary. mer; some flexibility possible for AY dates are difficult to include. For these Please submit your curriculum schedule. situations, readers are encouraged to vitae, a summary of your career goals, Application deadline: February 1, check out the AATSEEL website, which three recommendation letters, up to 5 2005; if not filled, every two weeks maintains up-to-date information on job syllabi or a brief portfolio to thereafter until search is closed. Mail openings. We also encourage employ- Professor Galya Diment, Chair, letter of application, CV, sample of a ers to share their job openings with the Department of Slavic Languages and funding application, statement of teach- newsletter where possible. Literatures, Box 353580, University of ing philosophy, and two letters of refer- Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. ence to: Dr. Stephen Batalden, Chair, Assistant Professor or Instructor of Priority will be given to applica- Search Committee, Russian & East Russian tions received before March 15, 2005. European Studies Center, Arizona State Montclair State University The University of Washington is building a University, PO Box 874202, Tempe, AZ Russian half-time Assistant Pro- culturally diverse faculty and strongly encour- 85287-4202. fessor or Instructor, non-tenure track ages applications from women and minority AA/EOE. continuing appointment. Generalist, candidates. AA/EO teaching experience, native or near-na- Research Associate Postdoctoral tive fluency, Ph.D. preferred. Responsi- Russian Language and Literature Position bilities include teaching undergarduate College of the Holy Cross - Defense Language Institute Foreign language, literature, culture courses, Worcester, MA Language Center student advisement, committee work, The Department of Modern Lan- The Defense Language Institute and scholarly research. Starting date guages and Literatures at the College Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) is will be September 1, 2005. of the Holy Cross invites applications increasing the proficiency expectations Send letter and resume to Dr. Lois for the following half-time renewable for its graduates and seeks a Research Oppenheim, Chair Dept. of French, Ger- appointment: Associate to assist in this plan. The man, and Russian, Montclair State Uni- Faculty appointment to teach two successful candidate will work with versity, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 courses per semester with benefits and faculty members in targeted programs research support. Ph.D. or ABD prefer- to identify and evaluate the most ef- Part-time Lecturer in Russian able; M.A. required. fective methods by which this can be San Diego State University Submit letter of application, c.v., accomplished. The candidate will also The Department of European Stud- copy of graduate transcript, and two be expected to offer regular faculty col- ies invites applications for a part -time current letters of recommendation to loquia in his/her area of specialty. The lecturer in Russian to teach first year Professor Amy Adams, Department successful candidate will have a strong Russian for Fall 2005. Requirements: of Modern Languages and Literatures, theoretical grounding in linguistics and an MA in Russian (Ph.D. preferred), P.O. Box 123-A, College of the Holy adult second language acquisition who two years of experience teaching at the Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA is interested in empirical investigation university level, native or near-native 01610. and application. proficiency in both Russian and English. Review of applications will begin Applicants must apply to Vacancy Applicants should submit a letter of on February 15, 2005, and will continue Announcement # WTEY050001RA interest, cv, transcript and 3 letters of until the position is filled. located at www.usajobs.opm.gov. recommendation to Chair, Department Holy Cross is an Equal Opportunity / $49,435, 13-month appointment, start in Affirmative Action institution. of European Studies, San Diego State May, 2005. Institute information: www. University, San Diego, CA 92182-7704. Assistant Director, dliflc.edu. For questions, contact Char- Applications received by April 1st, 2005 Critical Languages Institute lie Hogan at Charlie.Hogan@monterey. will be given highest consideration. Arizona State University army.mil or 831-242-4321. Deadline is SDSU is a Title IX, February 22, 2005. Equal Opportunity Employer. The Arizona State University Rus- sian and East European Studies Center EEO Employer. 28 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER
Recent conference programs and to be involved in this effort. Our website PROFESSIONAL guidelines for preparing abstracts are at www.nectfl.org provides information posted on the AATSEEL-WI web- on the organization. OPPORTUNITIES site: http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/ ~danaher/aatseel-wi/ April 18 - 20, 2005 Abstracts are due 31 August 2005. 2005 Conference of the Internation- Calls for Papers Send abstracts (200-250 words) by e- al Society for Language Studies Monday, April 18 - Wednesday, April March 15, 2005 mail (no attachments, please) to: Profes- 20, 2005, Montréal, Canada Translating Eastern Europe: sor Halina Filipowicz, hfilipow@wisc. Conference web site: www.isls-inc.org Art, Politics, and Identity In Trans- edu The International Society for Lan- lated Literature All submissions will be acknowl- guage Studies (ISLS) promotes research September 30-October 2, 2005 edged. on critical discourse and language The Ohio State University, Columbus, August 15, 2005 matters, broadly conceived, including OH Developing Nativelike Literacy in the teaching and learning of second / Papers are invited for an interdis- L2 foreign languages and general educa- ciplinary conference that will explore Papers, panels, and workshop tion (mother tongue). Session strands the complex role played by translated proposals are invited for a conference, include: literature in the evolution of literary tra- “Developing Nativelike Literacy in - Discourse and Identity ditions and national identities in Eastern L2” to be held in Amman, Jordan in - Education Europe and Russia. The conference will February 2006. Proposals may be sent - Interdisciplinary Foci open with a workshop on translating to [email protected] or ajaser@just. - Language Professions literature, to be conducted by Marian edu.jo - Pedagogy Schwartz, and will end with a reading Also proposals are requested for - Policy of translated literary works. Interested the Annual CDLC Conference on “De- - Research Methodology scholars and literary translators should veloping Nativelike Proficiency” in all - Technology submit paper proposals of no more than four skills. Conference Chair: John Watzke, Uni- 500 words and a curriculum vitae by 15 versity of Notre Dame March 2005 to: Brian James Baer, 109 The ISLS Conference directly fol- Satterfield Hall, Kent State University, Conferences and lows the 2005 American Educational Kent, OH 44242 (email: bbaer@kent. Research Association (AERA) confer- edu). Workshops ence. March 10-13, 2005 July 15, 2005 GURT 2005 June 27-August 5, 2005 CDLC Annual Conference The 2005 Georgetown University Summer Linguistics Institute The Coalition of Distingushed Round Table on Languages and Linguis- The Summer Linguistics Institute Language Centers invites abstracts for tics (GURT) with its theme Educating will be held in Cambridge, Massachu- papers to be presented at the October For Advanced Foreign Language setts. Fellowships will be awarded and conference on “Achieving Nativelike Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Institute Affiliates are welcome. Ap- Language Proficiency.” Instruction, Assessment will take place plications for fellowships and affiliate August 31, 2005 on the campus of Georgetown Univer- status will be available in June 2004. For 2005 AATSEEL- sity, Washington, DC. further information, contact: iatridou@ Wisconsin Conference For details, visit: http://www. mit.edu. Abstracts for twenty-minute papers georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2005 July 5 - 15, 2005 on any aspect of Slavic literatures and For other information, contact us at: Summer Opportunities for Lan- cultures (including film) and on issues [email protected] guage Teachers at Concordia Lan- in the learning and teaching of Slavic March 31-April 3, 2005 guage Villages languages and literatures are invited for Northeast Conference on the Teach- Concordia Language Villages is the annual conference of the Wisconsin ing of Foreign Languages offering a graduate course in Second chapter of AATSEEL (the American As- The Northeast Conference on the Language Methodologies, July 5 – 15, sociation of Teachers of Slavic and East Teaching of Foreign Languages invites 2005. This 10-day course includes dis- European Languages). Comparative Slavists to participate in its spring 2005 cussion of a variety of topics related to topics and interdisciplinary approaches conference, to be held March 31-April second language instruction. Immersion are welcome. The conference will be 3 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New methodologies and their application to held at the University of Wisconsin, York. the K-12 classroom will be highlighted. Madison, on Saturday, 15 October Please contact NECTFL at Participants will have the opportunity to 2005. nectfl@dickinson.edu if you would like 29 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 1 February 2005
visit several of the Language Villages in Contacts include (1) Richard F. filiate of the US-based Coalition of order to observe immersion methodolo- Young (program information), Depart- Distinguished Language Centers, New gies in action. The course will be taught ment of English, University of Wiscon- York Institute of Technology in Jordan, in English. sin, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI Jordan University of Science and Tech- Participants earn three semester 53706, [email protected]; (2) Maureen nology, and the University of Jordan, hours of graduate credit upon suc- Sundell (registration information), The this conference is dedicated to explor- cessful completion of this course, as Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madi- ing the issues of developing high-level well as return to their classroom with son, WI 53706, [email protected]. proficiency in reading and writing in a plethora of materials to assist in im- edu; and (3) Robert Rainerie (general foreign languages. It is an outgrowth mersion methodology instruction. The information), American Association of a CCCC (NCTE) grant to study the course instructor is Donna Clementi, a for Applied Linguistics, 3416 Primm acquisition of high-level writing skills. nationally recognized workshop pre- Lane, Birmingham, AL 35216, robert@ Reading skills will be included, as well, senter who has been a classroom teacher primemanagement.net. For the latest in the conference. for 32 years. information, check the AILA website, The conference organizers will pro- The cost for the program, $1,290, http://www.aila2005.org. vide transportation and lodging within includes tuition, food and lodging, class Jordan and arrange for pre-conference excursions, and instructional material. July 25-30, 2005 and post-conference tours. Jordan has The Goethe-Institut/AATG offers schol- Seventh World Congress of IC- many attractions to offer: Dead Sea CEES arships to German language teachers th swimming and health improvement, nationwide. The Central States Confer- The 7 World Congress of the In- diving in the Red Sea at Aqaba, visit- ence on the Teaching of Foreign Lan- ternational Council for Central and East ing the ancient Roman cities of Petra guages offers a scholarship to language European Studies will take place in Ber- and Jerasch, standing on Mount Nebo, teachers from its 17-state region. lin, Germany, on 25-30 July 2005. The and much more. Plan to come! Plan to For more information please go to: theme of the Congress is: “Europe–Our participate! http://www.cord.edu/dept/clv/general/ Common Home?” The Congress will For more information, watch the teach_opp.html, or contact Lois Egel- be held at the Humboldt Universität, Coalition of Distinguished Language hof at 800-450-2214 or egelhof@cord. located in the centre of Berlin. Centers’ website: www.distinguished- edu. The opening and closing ceremo- languagecenters.org or contact Dr. Amal Teaching opportunities are also nies will take place at the Haus der Kul- Jaser, [email protected]. available in one of our 13 languages turen der Welt/Kongresshalle (House (Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, of World Cultures/Congress Hall), Grants and French, German, Italian, Japanese, Ko- located in the park, Tiergarten. The rean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and local organiser of the Congress is the Fellowships Swedish). For more information, please Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropak- Various closing dates log onto our website at: http://www. unde (German Association for East Fulbright-Hays Programs ConcordiaLanguageVillages.org. European Studies). More information can be found at the following website: The Fulbright-Hays programs offer July 24-29, 2005 www.rusin.fi/ICCEES/. fellowships to pre-doctoral students, 14th World Congress of Applied visiting lecturers, and senior scholars. Linguistics October 22, 2005 There are a number of programs. In- The 14th World Congress of Ap- CDLC Annual Conference formation on requirements, dates, and plied Linguistics will be hosted by The annual conference of the Coali- program content is available at http:// the American Association for Applied tion of Distinguished Language Centers, www.iie.org/cies. Linguistics in Madison, Wisconsin. This dedicated to the topic of developing Various closing dates is the first time that the World Congress nativelike second language proficiency, American Councils for Interna- will be held in the United States. will be held at Howard University in tional Education: ACTR/ACCELS Presentations will bring together Washington, DC on October 22, 2005. announces the following fellowship applied linguists from diverse com- For registration information, check the programs: munities and from varied intellectual CDLC website: www.distinguishedlan- guagecenters.org. Updated information traditions to explore the future. The National Endowment for the should appear in late spring. theme of the conference is “The Fu- Humanities Collaborative Research ture is Now,” a future where language February 2006 Fellowship: Provides fellowships of is a means to express ideas that were Developing Nativelike up to $40,000 for four to nine months unthinkable, to cross boundaries that Literacy in L2 of research in Eastern Europe and Eur- seemed to be unbridgeable, and to share Co-sponsored by the Consortium asia. Proposals must include plans to our local realities with people who live of Teaching Excellance Center af- work with at least one collaborator in continents away. 30 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER the field. The merit-based competition Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, are also encouraged to apply. Awards is open to all U.S. post-doctoral schol- Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbeki- provide round-trip international airfare ars in the humanities and most social stan. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a from Washington, DC to Moscow, Rus- sciences, including such disciplines as policy-relevant field and have sufficient sia; living stipends; full tuition; housing modern and classical languages, history, language-ability to carry out proposed with Russian host families; pre-depar- linguistics, literature, jurisprudence, research. Scholars must conduct re- ture orientation; weekly cultural excur- philosophy, archaeology, comparative search for at least four months in the sions; insurance; and visas. religion, sociology, and ethics. Applica- field. Funded by the U.S. Department Tentative program dates are June tion deadline: February 15. of State, Program for the Study of 17 to August 4. Funded by the U.S. Eastern Europe and the Independent Department of Education. Application Title VIII Research Scholar Pro- States of the Former Soviet Union (Title deadline: March 1. gram: Provides full support for three VIII). Application deadlines: October 1 to nine-month research trips to Russia, (Spring Program); January 15 (Summer, Scholarships for language study Central Asia, the Southern Caucasus, Fall and Academic Year Programs.) on American Councils programs Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. overseas: Graduate students participat- Fellowships include round-trip Title VIII Southeast Europe ing in the American Councils Russian international travel, housing, living sti- Research and Language Study Pro- Language and Area Studies program pends, visas, insurance, affiliation fees, grams: Provides full support for three to or the Eurasian Regional Language archive access, research advising, and nine months of research and/or language program are eligible for full or partial logistical support in the field. study in Southeast Europe. Fellow- scholarships from the U.S. Department Open to graduate students, post- ships include round-trip international of State, Program for the Study of East- doctoral scholars, and faculty. Funded travel, housing, living stipends, visas, ern Europe and the Independent States by the U.S. Department of State, Pro- insurance, tuition, and affiliation fees. of the former Soviet Union (Title VIII). gram for the Study of Eastern Europe Funded by the U.S. Department of Undergraduates who intend a career in and the Independent States of the State, Program for the Study of East- teaching are eligible for full or partial Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Ap- ern Europe and the Independent States scholarships from the U.S. Department plication deadlines: October 1 (Spring (Title VIII). Open to graduate students, of Education for their participation in Program); January 15 (Summer, Fall post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Ap- the Russian Language and Area Stud- and Academic Year Programs). plication deadline: October 1 (Spring ies Program or the Eurasian Regional Program); January 15 (Summer, Fall Language program. Title VIII Combined Research and Academic Year Programs). The American Councils Russian and Language Training Program: Language and Area Studies Program Provides full support for research and Title VIII Southeast Europe provides intensive Russian language approximately ten hours per week Summer Language Program: Offers instruction in Moscow, St. Petersburg of advanced language instruction for international airfare, tuition, insurance, and Vladimir, Russia. three to nine months in Russia, Central and living stipends to graduate students The Eurasian Regional Language Asia, the Southern Caucasus, Ukraine, for up to three months of intensive program offers instruction in virtu- Belarus, and Moldova. Fellowships language study at major universities ally any of the languages of the former include round-trip international travel, throughout Southeast Europe and the Soviet Union at leading institutions housing, tuition, living stipends, visas, Baltic states. throughout the region. insurance, affiliation fees, archive ac- Open to students at the MA and Fellowship information and appli- cess, research advising, and logistical Ph.D. level, as well as faculty and post- cations are included in regular applica- support in the field. doctoral scholars. Funded by the U.S. tion materials for both programs. Ap- Open to graduate students, post- Department of State, Program for the plication deadlines: October 15 (spring doctoral scholars, and faculty. Funded Study of Eastern Europe and the Inde- semester programs); March 1 (summer by the U.S. Department of State, Pro- pendent States (Title VIII). Application programs); April 1 (fall semester and gram for the Study of Eastern Europe deadline: January 15. academic year programs). and the Independent States of the Summer Russian Language For more information, contact: Out- Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Ap- bound Programs, American Councils plication deadlines: October 1 (Spring Teachers Program: Provides full support for teachers of Russian at the for International Education: ACTR/AC- Program); January 15 (Summer, Fall CELS, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, and Academic Year Programs.) university, high school, and secondary school level to study Russian literature, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036; Title VIII Special Initiatives language, culture, and second language (202) 833-7522, outbound@americanc Fellowship: Provides grants of up to pedagogy at Moscow State University ouncils.org. $35,000 for field research on policy- for six weeks. Graduate students with a relevant topics in Armenia, Azerbaijan, commitment to the teaching profession
31 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 1 February 2005 Why Join AATSEEL? Some Slavists ask why they should bother joining AATSEEL when they can belong to the MLA and AAASS. The fact is that neither the MLA nor the AAASS puts at the heart of its mission the goals, concerns and interests of those who teach Slavic languages and literatures. AATSEEL is the only professional association dedicated precisely to these fields; it is the first and most important scholarly “home” for Slavists in the United States.
Slavists who belong to AATSEEL:
➣ Support and receive SEEJ, a quarterly journal with the most groundbreaking research in Slavic litera- ture, linguistics, and pedagogy along with reviews of books Slavists need to read and know about; ➣ Publish research in SEEJ, joining colleagues in the most important journal for Slavists in North America, benefit from referee reports by the best scholars in the field and, in turn, contribute to the work of other scholars by reviewing their submissions; ➣ Receive the AATSEEL Newsletter, a quarterly bulletin with important news about events in our pro- fession, grant and fellowship opportunities, job listings, summer programs, study abroad programs, news of other members (promotions, retirements, etc.), and informative columns such as “Everything you wanted to know about Russian grammar but were afraid to ask” as well as columns on Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech and other languages; ➣ Can attend and participate in the annual AATSEEL Conference (held in the same city and at the same time as the annual MLA Conference), together with tenured and tenure-track scholars as well as graduate students and independent scholars, hear and give papers, take part in panels and roundtables and job interviews, receive the annual conference program book with its abstracts; ➣ Receive the annual AATSEEL membership directory; ➣ May nominate others for AATSEEL awards, including the book awards; ➣ Are eligible themselves for AATSEEL awards, including the book awards; ➣ Support AATSEEL and thus the Slavic languages and literatures field in the United States.
Without AATSEEL, there would be no SEEJ, no AATSEEL Newsletter, and no AATSEEL Conference. All three of these venues are critically important for maintaining our identity as a field focused predominantly on the languages, literatures and cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe, and for ensuring the vitality of our field into the future. Joining AATSEEL and supporting AATSEEL now with your membership is your way of saying that the future of Slavic studies in the United States is important to you.
AATSEEL works together with AAASS, ACTFL, ACTR and MLA, along with other associations, to help push the agenda of support for research in Russia and Central Europe and research in foreign languages. AATSEEL pays dues to the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies (www.languagepolicy.org). Your membership in AATSEEL helps support these causes, too.
Membership in AATSEEL is affordable and the web-based membership form makes it convenient to join: go to www.aatseel.org and sign up now.
32 February 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER AATSEEL 2005 MEMBERSHIP FORM THIS FORM MAY BE PHOTOCOPIED. WE ENCOURAGE ALL NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERS TO PAY 2005 DUES THROUGH THE WEB (www.aatseel.org) WITH MASTERCARD OR VISA AND RECEIVE A $10 DISCOUNT. TO JOIN, RENEW or CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS BY MAIL, fill in the information requested and return it with your check (payable to AATSEEL in US dollars) to: AATSEEL, c/o Kathleen Dillon, P.O. Box 7039, Berkeley, CA 94707-2306 USA. If you wish a receipt in addi- tion to your canceled check, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. AATSEEL also accepts payment by Visa or Mastercard. (Please PRINT all information.) First name ______Last name ______Mailing address: Contact info (in case we have questions): ______Phone: ______Fax: ______Email: ______
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