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Концепция Национальной Образовательной Политики Российской Федерации, Михаил Кузьмин

Russian Language Journal

Россия полиэтнична. Состав ее населения, сложившийся в длительном процессе формирования Российского государства, включает в себя сегодня (по переписи 2002 г.) около 160 этносов. Это означает, что единая система российской общеобразовательной школы в осуществлении своих функций объективно имеет дело с чрезвычайно сложным языково‐, этнокультурно‐ и этноментально‐ неоднородным и разнохарактерным контингентом учащихся. Закон «Об образовании» 1992 г. решил эту проблему с помощью компонентного принципа организации содержания образования, позволяющего удовлетворить интересы разных субъектов образовательного пространства: государства и общества – через федеральный компонент, этносов и локальных сообществ – через региональный (национально‐ региональный) компонент. Правда Закон первоначально не предусмотрел механизмов, корректирующих возможный дисбаланс интересов участников …

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Современная Русская Речь: Тенденции Развития (По Результатам Социологического Исследования), Валентин Семенов, Евгений Юрков

Russian Language Journal

В 2004 году было проведено социологическое исследование тенденций развития речевой культуры в современной России, данные которого стали предметом соответствующего социолингвистического анализа, в результате чего авторами была опубликована работа «Русская речь в современной России: тенденции развития». Особое внимание в исследовании было уделено изменениям, происходящим в русской речи, а также анализу языкового самоощущения различных социальных групп.

Федеральный Закон Российской Федерации No 53‐Фз «О Государственном Языке Российской Федерации» 1 Июня 2005 Г.

Russian Language Journal

Настоящий Федеральный закон направлен на обеспечение использования государственного языка Российской Федерации на всей территории Российской Федерации, обеспечение права граждан Российской Федерации на пользование государственным языком Российской Федерации, защиту и развитие языковой культуры.

Introduction To Volume 56

Russian Language Journal

In his recent study of the linkage between corpus and status planning in language policy formation, Joshua Fishman observes that “languages are increasingly viewed as scarce national resources (not unlike flora and fauna, agricultural or environmental resources, and all other such improvable or alterable resources whose quality can be influenced by planned human intervention).” Given the particular history of language policy development in Russia and the former Soviet states in the 20th century, the appearance in mid-2005 of the new Law on the State Language of the Russian Federation is an event of considerable potential impact on the study and …

The Russian And French Laws On Language: A Cross‐Lighting, Patrick Seriot

Russian Language Journal

Comparison often allows a better understanding of a phenomenon than monographs. Cross‐lighting can reveal details which would have remained unnoticed under direct lighting.

На Возвратном Пути К Имперской Благопристойности Заметки О Федеральном Законе Российской Федерации От 1 Июня 2005 Г. N 53‐Фз О Государственном Языке Российской Федерации, Виктор Живов

Russian Language Journal

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Закон О Языке И Культура Речи, Елена Шмелева

Russian Language Journal

В разных странах люди по‐разному относятся к родному языку. В России в силу целого ряда причин сложилось представление о русском языке как о национальном достоянии и предмете гордости россиян. Каждый, кто учился в советской или российской школе, то есть по сути любой гражданин Российской Федерации, твердо знает, что русский язык – “великий и могучий” (И. Тургенев), что его надо беречь и хранить: “Но мы сохраним тебя, русская речь, великое русское слово!” (Анна Ахматова). Это массовое, всенародное убеждение, что русский язык играет особую роль в русской истории и культуре отражается в творчестве практически всех русских писателей и поэтов XIX – XXI …

Русский Язык Сегодня, Людмила Вербицкая

Russian Language Journal

2007 год – год русского языка в мире. Это событие заставляет нас внимательно проанализировать процессы, происходящие в русском языке сегодня, понимая, что при изучении любого языка необходимо исследовать и внутренние языковые закономерности и внешние по отношению к языку факторы.

Нужен Ли «Закон О Государственном Языке», Алексей Алексей

Russian Language Journal

Цели «Закона о государственном языке» определены в его преамбуле, в которой говорится, что он «направлен на обеспечение использования государственного языка Российской Федерации на всей территории Российской Федерации, обеспечение права граждан Российской Федерации на пользование государственным языком Российской Федерации, защиту и развитие языковой культуры». Однако представляется, что различные несуразности и нестыковки в тексте закона делают его неудобоприменимым и уж во всяком случае ни в коей мере не полезным для русской языковой культуры.

Russian As The National Language: An Overview Of Language Planning In The Russian Federation, Joan F. Chevalier

Russian Language Journal

In June of 2005 the federal legislation On the national language was signed into law by Vladimir Putin.1 The bill, revised and renamed several times after its initial introduction in the Duma in 2001, proved to be highly controversial, stimulating lively public debate. The law merits discussion as the first major piece of federation legislation focused on language policy and language planning to appear in the Russian Federation in several years. The law addresses both language‐status planning, which concerns the status and function of the Russian language, and language corpus planning, which attempts to affect changes in language forms and …

Функционирование Русского Языка В Странах Снг, Георгий Хруслов

Russian Language Journal

Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ) было создано 8 декабря 1991 года в Вискулях, резиденции Белорусского правительства в Беловежской пуще, в соответствии с Соглашением, подписанном руководителями Республики Беларусь, Российской Федерации и Украины.

Федеральный Закон «О Языке»: Феномен Добрых Намерений, Анатолий Баранов

Russian Language Journal

Языковая политика и языковое строительство – два ведущих направления, по которым государство может влиять на функционирование языка в обществе. Языковая политика позволяет сохранять статус‐кво, существующий в языковом сообществе между литературным языком и диалектами, жаргонами, между несколькими государственными языками, если таковые допускаются и т.д. Языковая политика формируется в виде политических целей государства по отношению к функционированию языка в обществе и формулируется как законодательно, так и в программных документах политических субъектов (политических организаций, если таковые отражают направление государственной политики).

“The State Turning To Language”: Power And Identity In Russian Language Policy Today, Lara Ryazanova‐Clarke

Russian Language Journal

The first years of the twenty‐first century in Russia saw a considerable rise in the state’s regulation of language. In the words of one of the agents of this regulation, Natalia Liashchenko, a Consultant for the Committee for the Nationalities, “Определенный поворот к проблемам русского языка произошел и в органах государственной власти России.” The engagement of the state by way of regulations in the national discussion of the nature and quality of the Russian language demonstrates ‘the state power turning to language’.

Combating The Banality Of Evil: Portrayals Of The Literary Female Villain In Gã¼Nter Grass's Danziger Trilogie And Novella, Im Krebsgang., Joseph Ephraim Baumgarten

Theses and Dissertations

In Günter Grass's Danzig Trilogy and novella, Im Krebsgang, an antagonistic female type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enforced her historical submission to man. This …

A Longitudinal Survey Of The Language Learning Careers Of Actr Advanced Students Of Russian: 1976-2000, Dan E. Davidson, Susan Goodrich Lehmann

Russian Language Journal

In 1976, the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) began sending American college students to Russia for advanced training in Russian language and literature. The original ACTR program was open to qualified students from any U. S. institution and represented one of the very few opportunities available to American students, graduate students, or faculty to pursue advanced language training in Russia, in this case, the newly established A. S. Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language in Moscow. Admission to the program was competitive, and, in practice, the ACTR program accepted for the most part graduate students and immediate-post BA …

Perspectives On Curriculum Construction At The Postsecondary Level: Contexts, Approaches, Principles, Heidi Byrnes

Russian Language Journal

A curriculum is an attempt, wrote Stenhouse three decades ago (1975, 4), to communicate the essential principles and features of an educational proposal in such a form that it is open to critical scrutiny and capable of effective translation into practice.

If one applies that notion of curriculum to the foreign language field in general, and to second- or foreign-language learning in U.S. colleges and universities in particular, one is immediately confronted with a dilemma: how can we speak of a foreign-language curriculum at the college level when a principled approach that is open to scrutiny and that builds on …

The Concept Of “World Language”, V. G. Kostomarov

Russian Language Journal

Although the United Nations has declared that its working languages—English, Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and, more recently, Japanese and Arabic— are “world languages,” there is no strictly linguistic basis for such a claim. Indeed, many linguists reject the term, and many of those who do accept it believe that it denotes—roughly—an artificial global language. Moreover, many find in it an unpleasant hint of the pseudoscientific idea that one language can be superior to another.

Globalization, Internationalization, And Language Learning In Russia, Liudmila Verbitskaya

Russian Language Journal

In reviewing international trends over the last few decades, two words— globalization and internationalization—inevitably come to mind. Thinkers around the world are pondering these processes, which are rooted in the technological and social changes of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

The notions of globalization and internationalization are obviously related, but exactly what do they mean? In The Globalization of Higher Education, Peter Scott (1998a) concludes that not only are the words not synonyms, but the processes they denote are radically different and even dialectically opposed.

Learners And Teachers: The Application Of Psychology To Second-Language Acquisition, Madeline Ehrman

Russian Language Journal

The successful acquisition of second languages depends as much on good psychology as it does on sound linguistics. Both teaching and learning can be enriched by understanding and applying basic psychological principles.

The speaking and reading performance of second-language learners has received a great deal of attention in areas of applied linguistics such as conversation analysis, speech production analysis, oral testing research, classroom interaction analysis, and task-based learning research.(Ellis, 1994). In addition to linguistic variables, researchers have examined psychological determinants of learner achievement in speech performance, among them “individual difference variables.” These relatively stable learner characteristics—including language aptitude, motivation, and …

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Introduction To Volume 55

Russian Language Journal

The present issue of RLJ reflects the new editorial board’s view of the state of Russian study in the U.S. and the world today in the context of globalization, internationalization of curriculum, and increased expectations regarding the outcomes of language study everywhere. (Verbitskaya) While more modest than the bold Soviet-era policy assertions concerning Russian as a “primary language of mass international communication,” Kostomarov addresses the new role of Russian as mother tongue, second language, or major foreign language for more than 300 million speakers in the world, nearly 3 million of whom are now resident in the United States, and …

Individual Difference Theory In Faculty Development: What Faculty Developers Should Know About Style, Betty Lou Leaver, Rebecca L. Oxford

Russian Language Journal

Over the past three decades and more, growing attention has been paid to the need to tailor instruction to meet the differing learning and affective styles of students. However, little has been written about doing the same for faculty.

Typically, the purpose of faculty development is to empower new and experienced teachers by providing information, enhancing self-confidence, and developing attitudes and beliefs favorable to effective teaching. Such empowerment usually requires teachers to change their teaching behaviors— and change does not come automatically or identically to all teachers. Rather, “teachers change in areas [in which] they are already primed to change, …

Change Agents And Change Agencies In Language Education: Implications For Langnet, Richard D. Brecht

Russian Language Journal

Educational innovation is a richly satisfying enterprise, particularly in an age of rising demands and expanding technology. But unless the innovators have an explicit strategic plan and a dedicated system for diffusing their work, innovation is destined to have little or no impact on the teachers and learners for whom it is intended. That truth lies at the heart of the literature on the diffusion of innovation.

The Online Language Learning Environment: New Roles For The Humanist, James S. Noblitt

Russian Language Journal

Thomas Edison played an important role in improving the technologies needed for the telephone. He was said to have been excited about the educational potential of the new instrument and speculated that it would soon be found in every classroom.

Well, he was right about the educational potential of information and communication technology, but he was wrong about the form the new technology would take.

This chapter raises questions concerning the role humanists will play in determining the development and implementation of information and communication technologies for educational purposes.

Articulation: Challenges And Solutions, Martha G. Abbott

Russian Language Journal

Providing students with a seamless progression of language development within the K-12 school curriculum remains a challenge for the foreign-language profession as we enter the new century. As national standards are developed for foreign-language education in the K-12 continuum and school districts throughout the country consider implementing foreign-language programs earlier in the curriculum, we have an opportunity to confront that challenge with renewed vigor.

The State Of The Art In Language Assessment: Notes For The Third Millennium, Bernard Spolsky

Russian Language Journal

In the 2000 years during which human abilities have been assessed formally, tests and examinations have grown more powerful. A century ago, critics launched a strong attack on examinations, citing their “inevitable uncertainty,” but a growing testing industry and governmental cries for “accountability” have managed a stubborn defense. More recently, appreciation of the complexity of notions such as “language proficiency” and acceptance of the resulting impossibility of finding a single measure of those notions have led testing experts to a realization that assessing language knowledge is multipart and intricate—and more likely to be served by profiles than by simple scores.

Hermine Cloeter, Feuilletons, And Vienna: A Flaneuse And Urban Cultural Archaeologist Wandering Through Opaque Spaces, Bridging Past And Present To Reclaim What Could Be Lost, Kelli D. Barbour

Theses and Dissertations

Despite the authority that time holds in the discipline of studying events of the past, not all historians or writers analyzing the past use time to study history—some use space, including writers who write about and interact with an urban topography. The space used by these writers is built space, as well as inhabited and practiced "lived" space. Whereas time provides a transparent overview of history, the urban spaces tend to be opaque. Clarifying history through urban space is additionally troublesome, because built space and its attached memories are visibly forgotten and ignored as time advances. Despite the difficulties of …

Blank Pages Of The Holocaust: Gypsies In Yugoslavia During World War Ii, Elizabeta Jevtic

Theses and Dissertations

After a general overview of the persecution of Gypsies (Roma) during World War II, this thesis focuses on the situation of Gypsies on the territory of Serbia and Croatia. The two republics are chosen because of their unique structures during the years 1941 to 1945. Both republics had puppet regimes set up by Germany; however, Croatia was an ally to Germany and strove to mirror the Third Reich in all its policies. The regime's head, Ante Pavelic, was known as one of the most brutal and merciless men on the territory of Yugoslavia, and with him Croatian paramilitary forces committed …