Internet for Authentic Texts and Tasks

Prof. Thomas Beyer

Middlebury College

Internet at Middlebury

• Basic Level Russian Course

• Advanced Work

• Possible Template for Future Efforts

Plusses and Minuses

• Variety of Texts• Limitless topics and vocabulary• Unlimited

Challenges

• Constantly evolving

• Appropriate content

• Time on task

Considerations

• Timeliness of Texts

• Authentic language tasks

• Unlimited personal content

Basic Intensive RussianBasic Intensive Russian

• Programs for learners

• Russia on the web

Learn Russian-WWWLearn Russian-WWW

• My own programs

• Third parties

www.ruwww.ru

• Tools• User sites• Other uses• Tip-snowboarding .ru

Advanced Language CoursesAdvanced Language Courses

• The news-keeping up• Advanced tools• Individualized instruction

Russian Ecology

• Web based

• Independent/in Class

• Senior Seminar

Course Itself

• Chapter 1-fonts and tools

• Chapter 2-search and translate

• Chapter 3-identify topic

• Chapter 4-independent research and reports

Lesson 1

• Install fonts, configure browser

• Print and type Russian text

• Translate article

• Use search engine(s).

• Work with research tools

Lesson 2

• Read and translate text

• Identify environmental issues

• Personal set of web links

• Read and summarize article on Baikal today

Lesson 3

• Search-identify-read-take notes-outline • Determine your research interest • Read and translate from Russian • Outline in Russian the issue(s) • Submit your list of sites, original texts,

translation, and outline

Lesson 4

• 1. A five-page paper in English

• 2. A one-two page typed summary in Russian for your oral presentation of your paper. 

• 3. An electronic outline (Power Point or web page) of your presentation and paper

Where do we go from here?

• Share ware tom.Beyer@middlebury.edu

• http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer

Related Documents

• Hand outs

• Business cards

• Web page

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