Content-Based Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language

Jason Merrill is Professor of Russian at Michigan State University and former Director of the Middlebury College Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian, USA.Olga Makarova is Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Svetlana V. Nuss is a series editor and teacher educator affiliated with the University of Alaska and Grand Canyon University, USA.

• PART ICONTEXTUALIZING CONTENT-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING 1 The content-based teaching of Russian: A dual commitment to language and content2 The content-based teaching of Russian: Themes, trends, opportunitiesPART IIFROM BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE 3 Content integration at the beginning level: What can be done?4 Content-based curriculum design for lower-level Russian language students: Theory and Practice5 Subtitled pop-music videos in the teaching of language and culture in intensive beginning Russian6 Language arts: Teaching Russian in a university museumPART IIIFROM INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED 7 “Balance of interests”: Fostering advanced Russian in a course on the Caspian Sea Treaty8 Teaching intercultural communication as an autonomous discipline in L2 Russian9 Building language and intercultural competence in content-based courses10 Interdisciplinarity through content-based instruction: Addressing social and ecological justice in the Russian language program for global professionals11 Media and motivation in advanced language courses for Gen Z learners12 Micro-publishing and content-based instruction: The Russian-Speaking Arizona book project13 Bridging worlds: Realities, challenges, and opportunities for the content-based teaching of Russian