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TheAATSEEL NEWSLETTER American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages Contents Message from the President ...............3 2005 AATSEEL Awards ........................4 Russian at Work ....................................6 Special in This Issue: Member News .......................................7 Technology and Language Learning ...............................................8 Information about the Recent Publications ..............................8 Everything You Always Wanted to 2005 Annual Meeting Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask ......................................9 Awards ..................................................12 2005 AATSEEL Awards Employment Opportunities ..............16 Summer Language & Book Awards Programs ............................................17 Psychology of Language Learning .............................................20 Graduate Student Forum ...................21 Belarusica .............................................22 Professional Opportunities ...............24 2005 AATSEEL Conference Info ......28 Volume 48 Issue 4 December 2005 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 4 December 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. 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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] 2 December 2005 Vol. 48, Issue 4 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Message from the simple click or two of your mouse), I Call for Nominations only want to remind you again to mark AATSEEL President your calendars for 7pm on December for AATSEEL Office 29 when all AATSEEL conference par- AATSEEL will hold elections in Dear Colleagues, ticipants are invited to a gala President’s Reception to be held at the Embassy early 2006 for two Vice Presidents and As you read this newsletter, our a President-Elect. The vice presidents December meeting is fast approaching, of the Russian Federation, hosted by Ambassador Ushakov and co-sponsored will serve a three year term from Janu- and I hope you share with me a feeling ary 1, 2007 through December 31, 2009. of anticipation and energy about our by AATSEEL, ACTR, and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. The President-Elect will serve from Washington gathering. January 1, 2007 through December Before turning to the business of I also want to urge you all to attend an event that—to put it mildly—often 31, 2008, then assume the presidency our happy near future, I want to say a of the association January 1, 2009 few, more sobering words about next gets overlooked on the AATSEEL program, that is, the annual business through December 31, 2010, before year’s AATSEEL National Convention. serving as Past President January 1, We, of course, all share the concern meeting, which will be held at 10am on December 29, conveniently preceding 2011 through December 31, 2012. All of our nation and the world with the nominees for AATSEEL office must destruction wrought on New Orleans Alexander Schenker’s keynote lecture, which I am sure you will all want to be members of the association. Please by Hurricane Katrina. I am pleased to send nominations to Past-President report, however, that our colleagues attend. The business meeting this year will give you all a chance to meet our Benjamin Rifkin, Chair, AATSEEL and their students—although some of Awards and Elections Committee, by them suffered harrowingly close shaves, incoming new Executive Director, Pa- tricia Zody, and Conference Manager, e-mail to [email protected] by Febru- many are still displaced, and all face the ary 1, 2006. sad task of salvaging their lives, homes, Diana Murphy. and studies from the devastation—ap- Moreover, the business meeting is pear to have escaped unharmed. an excellent opportunity to air and place Letter Moreover, William Brumfield’s up for vote by the membership issues of from the Editor extraordinary archive of photographs “substantial importance,” as the bylaws of Russian architecture housed in his of AATSEEL read. In fact, I urge you Profuse apologies to all of you Tulane office withstood the onslaught all to take a look at the bylaws, which for the delay in getting the December of the elements—like the monuments are posted on the AATSEEL website. Newsletter out by December 1. This is Bill has so eloquently captured on It is in the best interests of any healthy the first time since we have gone elec- film. Sadly, though, we must follow the organization for the rank and file of its tronic that there has been any difficulty MLA in moving our 2006 convention membership to participate actively in its in this respect. However, we received site from New Orleans to Philadelphia. governance. It is therefore imperative some important contributions at the This is certainly a disappointment. We that you all attend the business meeting last minute and felt it important to hold can only hope that our organization will to raise and discuss issues of importance the newsletter long enough to get this able to meet in a rebuilt and revitalized and in order that there be the quorum information into it. New Orleans very soon. necessary to pass any resolution that We are already into preparation of On a happier note, the convention might result from discussion. the February newsletter, and I would this year in Washington, DC promises We have it in our power to shape the remind regular contributors and others to be a memorable event—both from a destiny of our organization in exciting that the deadline is December 15. The scholarly and a social point of view. The new ways at this watershed moment in deadline is important because it does promise of the convention is certainly our organization’s history. I urge you enable us to get the newsletter out on due in part to the venue. Yet none of all to take part. time. I would also note that we can us can have failed to note that the job With best wishes for a joyful holi- now take photographs—color ones, market in our related fields is extraordi- day season, I look forward to seeing you even—and color ads now that we have narily robust this year, which not only all soon. gone electronic. will bring more of our members to the Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy As usual in December, I want to take convention, but bodes well for the future this opportunity to wish all those who of our organization in particular and of celebrate this season a merry Christmas Slavic studies in the United States in or happy Hanukkah. See you at the end general. AATSEEL Annual Meeting of the month, in sha Allah (if Allah is willing), as they say here in Jordan! Since I wrote at some length about Washington, DC the special events to be held at the con- December 27-30 vention in the October newsletter (to which you can now easily refer with a http://www.aatseel.org 3 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 48, Issue 4 December 2005 2005 AATSEEL Awards Outstanding Contribution to the Profession: Maria Lekic Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship: Bill Todd Excellence in Teaching at the Secondary Level: Ruth Edelman Excellence in Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level: Maria Carlson Distinguished Service to AATSEEL: Karen Evans-Romaine 2005 AATSEEL Book Awards Best Book in Language Pedagogy: Laura A. Janda and Stephen J. Clancy. 2002. The Case Book for Russian. Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers. Best Book