Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook

Svetlana V. Nuss is a teacher educator affiliated with the University of Alaska and Grand Canyon University, USA.Wendy Whitehead Martelle is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Russian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA.

• Teaching Russian Without a Textbook 1 Teaching Russian Without a Textbook: Trends and Dynamics2 Supplementing L2 Curriculum: Research-Informed Practice of What, Why, and How Transcending Language Learning3 Combining Experiential Learning Theory and Drama-Based Pedagogy in Advanced Russian Course4 Learning by Doing: Podcasts in a Low-Advanced Russian Classroom5 Globally Integrated Community-Based Pedagogy for the Russian Classroom: Developing a Historic Walking Tour as a Community Project Bridging the Pragmatic Gap 6 Functional Everyday Russian: A Pre-Departure Course to Improve Study Abroad Participants’ Willingness to Communicate7 Russian Experience on SpatialChat: Global Simulation of Оdnokashniki 8 In the Dynamic Classroom: Teaching Colloquial Russian Prospecting for language 9 Integrating Corpus-Based Activities into Russian Writing Classrooms 10 Usage-Based Model of Language in a Beginning Russian Course 11 “Songs Help”: Learning Russian Through the Use of Songs and Animated Films