The AATSEEL AmericanN EWSLETTERAssociation of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages Contents Message from the AATSEEL President ..........................1 Letter from the Editor ...........................1 State of the Field ...................................2 Cross Cultural Communication .........5 AATSEEL Awards .................................7 Recent Publications ..............................9 AATSEEL 2012 Book Prize Winners ..............................................10 Psychology of Language Learning ..12 Technology & Language Learning ...13 Czech Corner .......................................17 Member New .......................................21 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask ....................................23 Domestic Summer Programs ............25 International Summer Programs .....29 Professional Opportunities ...............32 AATSEEL Membership Form ...........35 Volume 56 Issue 2 April 2013 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 56, Issue 2 April 2013 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: CARMEN FINASHINA THOMAS SEIFRID Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN University of Southern California MOLLY THOMASY BLASING [email protected] President-Elect: ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT KEVIN M. 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PLATT KATHLEEN EVANS-ROMAINE University of Pennsylvania SIBELAN FORRESTER [email protected] ALINA ISRAELI Past President: KATYA JORDAN NANCY CONDEE FERIT KILIÇKAYA University of Pittsburgh ANI KOKOBOBO [email protected] NATAŠA MILAS Vice-Presidents: KATYA HOKANSON MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE University of Oregon CURT WOOLHISER [email protected] KAMILA ZAPLETÁLKOVÁ ELENA KOSTENKO-FARKAS Anchorage School District NL Coordinates: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] GEORGE FOWLER Assistant Editor: [email protected] Indiana University Layout/Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] JULIA MIKHAILOVA AATSEEL Office: University of Toronto Elizabeth Durst [email protected] Executive Director, AATSEEL SARAH CLOVIS BISHOP 3501 Trousdale PKY., THH 255L Willamette University Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353 USA [email protected] REBECCA STANTON E-mail: [email protected] Barnard College, Columbia University Layout/Advertising: CDL Services [email protected] Editor, SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL: Submitting Copy: GERALD JANECEK University of Kentucky (1) Foreign languages are accommodated if prepared on Ma- [email protected] cIntosh with a truetype or postscript font that can be shared. 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DIANNA MURPHY AATSEEL Conference Manager [email protected] AATSEEL Web site AATSEEL Web Master: For current online information about AATSEEL SVETOSLAV PAVLOV and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: Grand Valley State University http://www.aatseel.org [email protected] April 2013 Vol. 56, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Message from the the grammaticality of an expression In the online version, more colorful in one’s acquired language simply by imagery as well as sound and video AATSEEL President googling it to see if it exists out there, files could be possible. We welcome somewhere, is a huge convenience your thoughts, which you can send to Out of Print? (though the medium can’t help us if me electronically at [email protected] we are at that Chomskian edge where or to the organization itself (in reality, The displacement of print by elec- competence produces unprecedented our executive director Elizabeth Durst) tronic media is already so hoary a topic but grammatically sound performance). at [email protected]. Above all, we look that it risks sounding like yet another The days of my own undergraduate forward to a rejuvenated Newsletter as rehearsal of the death of the novel—or education, when about the only sample yet another benefit of membership in God—while the supposedly defunct of current Russian one could find was this organization. party continues robustly to exist. Or the months-old copy of Pravda in the if, for some of our members, there is university library are, fortunately, long Thomas Seifrid no God, then all is permitted, includ- gone. Now radio, film, television, and (University of Southern California) ing Facebook, Twitter, university press reports only seconds old are administrations, and tedious, vacuous available in the language one is learn- blogs. Nonetheless, I’d like to use the ing (a Slavic one, of course) on the Letter from the Editor occasion of this Newsletter, published internet. And it is actually a relief that only online, to offer some thoughts on Greetings to one and all! we skipped over the phase a colleague the phenomenon (and apologies for This will be the last issue before the once excitedly described to me as the my new-presidential confusion in the summer break -- yes, I realize that sum- coming future of academic publishing: preceding issue when, in what must mer break is not quite here yet, but hope- books printed physically, on demand, by have appeared a dull practical joke if fully some folks are benefitting from a a machine resembling a photo copier. you were holding the paper copy while spring break -- so, I will start (and end) What a bore. If we are moving out of reading it, I declared that issue to be by wishing all a happy summer, at least books (which I desperately hope we are available only online). for those who actually do get a break not) let’s at least make it a clean break. I could go on at length, as old folk for the summer months. Those of us in And so on to the question of the do, about how the world has changed administration can only envy that! AATSEEL Newsletter. It has served since I was younger. I won’t, but I do Along the lines of designing an the organization loyally in its present think the changes we have seen are online version of the newsletter (which format for many years, but its format is more than trivial. My students still we tried several years ago but reverted stuck more or less at the stage of 8-track surprise me by laughing when I ask if when advertisers and subscribers indi- tape (children, I will explain that one they know what a typewriter is (I still cated a preference for paper), we can later). We have decided to publish this wonder, though, how do they know? also look into ways of updating the issue online only (really, this time). That do they see them in films?); but the format of the paper version. The current in itself does not accomplish much, time will come when words like “pho- format is one that I introduced at the but we wanted to get your attention. nograph” and “record” will need to turn of the century (2000 – I just had to As we rethink the ways in which the be footnoted (thank God the “Tower use the phrase, “turn of the century;” Newsletter could better serve the mem- Records” chain folded before parents it sounds so long ago). Other ideas are bership we welcome your suggestions had every time to explain to their chil- always welcome. We have had some for changes—in content but especially dren what that meant). And I note with suggestions in the past but consistent in format. The general sense among a pang of nostalgia the passage at the follow-through has been difficult to members polled so far is that many of us opening of Nabokov’s Приглашение achieve when dependant upon volunteer remain fond of the paper edition, which на казнь which points to “правая, еще contributions. (At this juncture, though, for the foreseeable future we therefore непочатая часть романа, которую мы, I do want to thank the volunteer column intend to keep producing. But we would посреди лакомого чтенья, легонько editors for their ongoing support, with- also like to think about developing a ощупывали, машинально проверяя, out which I would not be able to put somewhat different, online version, много ли еще.” I suppose one could out this newsletter at all.) That said, let something more interesting, useful, and update this by referring to the amount the ideas flow and see where the stream sophisticated than the current (rather of space remaining on the scrollbar to takes us. clumsy) pdf file. For both editions, the right of the screen, but it wouldn’t be And, once again, good wishes for a up-to-date insider information about the same—and for this reader, at least, great summer! cultural events, lodging, restaurants, the чтенье would be nowhere near as etc. in the Slavic and eastern European лакомо. Betty L. Leaver, Editor places that we visit (Moscow, St. Peters- Yet clearly there are enormous burg, Prague, Kraków, Kyïv, Ljubljana, benefits to be had from the shift into etc.) suggests itself as one possibility. electronic media. The ability to check 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 56, Issue 2 April 2013 STATE OF THE FIELD Editors: Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh & Readers: We would like to reinstate the