Webinar: August 22, 2024
We are delighted to share that our online, free Open Educational Resource (OER) Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration is completed and is available for anyone to use. You can find this resource at diverserussian.org (alternate link: https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/diverserussian/).
Diverse Russian is a free, online, interactive Russian language textbook that invites students to explore places that have Russian-speaking communities by using the Russian language. It is intended for students who are approaching or are at the Intermediate level, and could be used to supplement existing Intermediate-level textbooks or as a main textbook in a listening, reading, and conversation course.
The OER textbook explores various locations and cultures, including: Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Indigenous populations of Russia, the Baltics, Georgia (Sakartvelo), and Russian-speaking communities in the United States. Chapters are structured around cultural texts and multimedia materials with interactive exercises, activities, and tasks designed to enable students to practice their language skills in a variety of contexts and modes of communication.
“Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration offers both learners and instructors of Russian unprecedented access to the variety and diversity of Russian-speaking communities on three continents. From the Russian Far East to Georgia, from Ukraine to Brighton Beach, these interactive online material immerse its users in the rich translingual and intercultural environments, drawing on an impressive variety of authentic texts, images, and sounds. The authors are to be commended for this innovative project and for a large step toward a more inclusive pedagogy of Russian language and culture.”
-Thomas Jesús Garza, University of Texas at Austin
The authors will be holding a webinar to familiarize colleagues with the textbook and answer questions. Webinar details:
Thursday, August 22, 2024
4:30 pm Eastern / 3:30 pm Central / 2:30 pm Mountain / 1:30 pm Pacific
Registration link: https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUld-2hqDwpH9Fq5VtSfTJT6mjC8CJ2Es_O#/registration
This project was supported by the Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Any questions can be directed to the authors, Shannon Donnally Quinn (sdquinn@msu.edu) and/or Anna Tumarkin (atumarki@wisc.edu).