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Subject: new materials in Russian
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:45:11 -0600
From: Shannon Donnally Spasova <[log in to unmask]>
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This announcement from Prof. Benjamin Rifkin about new materials available for intermediate/advanced students of Russian may be of interest.
The RAILS (Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series) Team is proud to announce the completion of its project: 30 web-based advanced-level listening comprehension lessons are completed and ready for your use.
These lessons are based on video-taped interviews with prominent Russians (including former presidential candidate Irina Khakamada) and excerpts from documentary films (Solovky Power and The Children of Ivan Kuz'mich).
Lessons are accompanied by teachers' manuals and transcripts; students may use the lessons on PC or Macintosh computers with a high-speed Internet connection.
Licenses to download and use the lessons based on interviews with prominent Russians are available at no cost for use by students and teachers of Russian at any educational institution in the world.
Licenses to download and use the lessons based on excerpts from the documentary films are free to those institutions in North America that have purchased copies of the given films.
More details about the licenses and lessons, including images from lessons illustrating the range of activities in the 30 lessons, are available at the RAILS website:
http://www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu/rails
Contact Dr. Dianna Murphy, Associate Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute at [log in to unmask] with any questions about the RAILS project.
As director of the RAILS Project and principal investigator of the US Department of Education grant that funded it, I also take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge the following individuals, all affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison except as otherwise noted:
Dianna Murphy, Project Manager
Shannon Donnally Spasova, Project Assistant (Curriculum Developer)
Victoria Thorstensson, Project Assistant (Curriculum Developer)
Nina Familiant, Project Assistant (Curriculum Developer)
Darya Vassina, Editorial Assistant
Galina Aksenova, Grinnell College and MKhAT, Middlebury College
Jean Hennessey, UW-Madison Slavic Department Administrator
Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA, Filmmaker
Georg Herzfeld, Gold Films Distributor
Olga Kagan, UCLA, External Reviewer
Frank Miller, Columbia U., External Reviewer
Elena Shchepina, Smolny Institute, Editorial Assistant
Richard Robin, George Washington U., Technical Consultant
Anna Yatsenko, Reed College, Editorial Assistant
Ted Gerber, Content Assistant for Sociology
Mark Beissinger, Princeton University, Expert Reviewer for Political Science Content
Francine Hirsch, Expert Reviewer for History Content
Anne Gorsuch, University of British Columbia, Expert Assistant for History Content
Manon VandeWater, Expert Reviewer Assistant for Theater Content
Doug Worsham, Media Consultant
Ron Cramer, Media Consultant
Michelle Glenetski, Web Designer
Bahman Zakeri, Programmer, Xivic Communications
Bruno Browning, IT Consultant
All of us on the RAILS team extend our thanks to colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Language Institute, Division of Information Technology, and L&S Learning Support Services.
Reviews of the RAILS lessons will appear soon in professional publications. We encourage all teachers of Russian at the advanced level to consider using these lessons in their courses.
Sincerely,
Ben Rifkin
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Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Russian and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
1206 Anderson Hall, 1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
Voice 215-204-1816
Fax 215-204-3731
www.temple.edu/cla
www.temple.edu/fgis/rifkin
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