CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
Join Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, Diplomat in Residence in Northern California, who will discuss internship programs where you can work in U.S. Embassies and consulates abroad and in Washington, DC. Learn about our internship programs in different bureaus which focus on everything from STEM to economics. Find out how you can apply for the Fall 2020 internships which open for application this month.
This service provides informational interviews by matching professionals with SEEES MA/PhDs employed beyond the professoriate (Senior Contact), with graduate students and recent MA/PhDs who are interested in broadening their career horizons (Junior Contact). For more information and to apply or volunteer: www.aseees.org/programs/career-diversity
Announcing the SMARTool for learners of Russian (Strategic Mastery in Acquiring Rich morphology Tool), a free open-source resource you can find here: https://smartool.github.io/smartool-rus-eng/.
SMARTools: Strategic Mastery in Acquiring Rich morphology: Tools for language learning
Many languages have “rich morphology”, meaning that words can have many different forms to signal grammatical categories such as case, number, tense, etc. Rich morphology presents a challenge for second language learners because even a basic vocabulary of a few thousand words can entail mastery of over a hundred thousand word forms. This is particularly the case with Slavic languages like Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Croatian, Baltic languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, and Uralic languages like Finnish and Estonian, but not irrelevant for a Romance language like Spanish with large paradigms for verbs. However, only a handful of the potential forms of any given word occur frequently, while the remainder are rare (some vanishingly so).
Continue reading “Resource: SMARTool for Learners of Russian”CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Graduate Methods Training Workshop
October 2-3, 2020 at Indiana University—Bloomington
Carrying out research in Russia, be it quantitative or qualitative, has particular challenges that can make it difficult for graduate students to make efficient and effective use of their time while in country: navigating the complex archival and library systems, conducting personal interviews on politically sensitive topics, and collecting elusive survey data, to name a few. The Graduate Methods Training Workshop aims to address these challenges by exploring innovative methodological approaches and engaging in training and dialogue with Russia-focused social scientists—all while fostering a community of emerging Russianists and promoting networking and professional opportunities with experts on Russia.
Continue reading “Grad. Program: Graduate Methods Training Workshop (Indiana University-Bloomington)”Digitized versions of Vesyoliye Kartinki, a Russian children’s magazine is available here:
https://archive.org/details/vesyolyie_kartinki
The pictures are really beautiful and there are even (very) short versions of Tolstoy stories. A great resource for both language and culture-learning!
SemesterRus is a free app designed by the GRINT Centre for learning Russian and preparing for the TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) at the Elementary, Basic, and First Certification levels. It includes 60 lessons (3 levels, with 20 lessons in each level, using a standard structure and design) and preparatory Russian language exams for each TORFL level using the in-app Dictionary and flashcards. The app is free to use for every learner from beginning to advanced, and does not include ads or in-app purchases.
Assessments for the Grammar, Reading, and Listening sections are carried out automatically within the app. Instructors from the GRINT Centre will individually grade the Writing and Speaking sections. Any final evaluation scores from the Exams section of the app will be available within 48 hours after completing the test.
More information about the SemesterRus App is available at http://russian-language.ru/
You may download the app directly from
• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grint.russem
• AppStore: https://tinyurl.com/GRINTCentre
SemesterRus is a free app designed by the GRINT Centre for learning Russian and preparing for the TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) at the Elementary, Basic, and First Certification levels. It includes 60 lessons (3 levels, with 20 lessons in each level, using a standard structure and design) and preparatory Russian language exams for each TORFL level using the in-app Dictionary and flashcards. The app is free to use for every learner from beginning to advanced, and does not include ads or in-app purchases.
Assessments for the Grammar, Reading, and Listening sections are carried out automatically within the app. Instructors from the GRINT Centre will individually grade the Writing and Speaking sections. Any final evaluation scores from the Exams section of the app will be available within 48 hours after completing the test.
More information about the SemesterRus App is available at http://russian-language.ru/
You may download the app directly from
• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grint.russem
• AppStore: https://tinyurl.com/GRINTCentre
The Fall 2019 issue of Slavic and East European Journal is now available:
https://seej.org/issues/63.3
The journal has a new website: https://seej.org
Subscription info can be found at: https://www.aatseel.org/publications/inst_subscriptions
Slavic and East European Journal • Volume 63 Number 3 (Fall 2019)
Continue reading “Resource: Slavic and East European Journal”The Slavic Reference Service is excited to announce a workshop for doctoral students: Collections, Services & Dissertation Research Online Workshop. The theme of this workshop will focus on conducting a literature review. It will feature scholars and librarians offering helpful perspectives, as well as advice from a doctoral student about his experience conducting dissertation research abroad. Our panelists will include:
· Zachary Hoffman | University of Virginia
· Slavic Reference Service | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
· Angela Cannon | Library of Congress
· Katya Rogatchevskaia | The British Library
· Anatol Shmelev | Hoover Institution
The workshop will be held online through Blackboard Ultra on Thursday, February 27th at 9:00 AM CST. After registering for the workshop, you will receive an invitation to the Blackboard virtual conference room in the days leading up to the workshop. You can register for the workshop here: https://tinyurl.com/t2tmsbt.
The new episode of Foreign Language Teaching Podcast is out!
This is a second part of our interview with William Comer, Professor of Russian and Director of the Russian Flagship Program at Portland State University.
Podcast new host Izolda Savenkova and her guest are discussing approaches to teaching grammar.http://alturl.com/bz2q2
If you missed the first part of the podcast on teaching reading skills, you can listen to it here: http://alturl.com/2aexm
Dr. Comer has published numerous articles in national journals including the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Language Journal and Foreign Language Annals. His pedagogical edition of Viktoria Tokareva’s short story A Day without Lying (Slavica, 2008) was awarded the prize for Best Book in Language Pedagogy by American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in 2010. In August 2009 he won the University of Kansas W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He is co-author of Mezhdu nami (=Between you and me), an online, open-access textbook for elementary Russian. At Portland State he teaches courses in Russian language, literature and culture, and directs the Russian Language Flagship Program.
Podcast host Izolda (Iza) Savenkova is a Visiting Assistant Scholar at Dickinson College, PA. She has been teaching Russian for 7 years after graduation from Lomonosov State University with a Master’s degree in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language. The main sphere of her academic interests is Russian for Specific Purposes. She is currently completing her PhD in Teaching Russian as a Second Language at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before coming to Dickinson College in 2018, she taught courses in Russian language, literature, and culture and assisted a Dickinson-in-Moscow program at Russian State University for the Humanities. During the summers of 2018 and 2019 she taught at Middlebury College Cathryn Davis School of Russian.The podcast is created by TeachRussian.org.