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I'm using Golosa I in the 2nd and 3rd year classes, and a combination of Golosa 2 along with various materials culled from online and other textual material for the AP pilot study group I have (essentially a combined heritage speaker and 4th year group)
COMMENTS: We started AP Russian Fall 2005, and plan another trip to Russia for the summer of 2006 after our successful 2004 trip. We're also making good use of our new software-based learning lab. |
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We have Russian Face to Face available, but to be honest I don't find it that helpful, except for the video series. I do look at it from time to time, to check that my students have practiced what is "expected" for their level. But we are a completely TPRS school, so I do create a lot of our material and I use a variety of resources for comprehensible input, including Blaine Ray's "Bednya Anya,"
and Ann Rolbin's First Reader in Russian, in semesters two and three. In semester four we are reading from "Stories from Today's Russia", as well as articles from newsweek and the BBC online, and singing the students' favorite contemporary Russian songs that they find on Youtube. We teach grammar embedded in context, but for great, relevant practice in specific structures I use Poexali; I know it's aimed at adults, but it uses such high frequency, up-to-date vocabulary, it fits very well in my program.
The program is continuing to build - there will be a level three next school year. All my students are Americans learning from scratch, none have any previous background of hearing and speaking the language.
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