Teaching Russian Through STEM

Teaching Russian Through STEM: Contexts, Tools, and Approaches addresses the growing demand for language courses that align with the interests of students who are increasingly majoring in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Svetlana V. Nuss teaches Russian at the University of Alaska (USA) and online graduate courses in the Bilingual Education and TESOL Certification program at Grand Canyon University (USA). As a teacher educator with expertise in a low-incidence EL setting, Dr. Nuss works with school districts developing their EL coaching programs for teachers.

Maria Khotimsky received her Ph.D. from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (USA). Dr. Khotimsky has been teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) since the fall of 2012, restarting the Russian language program there after a 15-year hiatus. Her research interests include language pedagogy (using digital technology and content-based courses), STEM and language learning, translation studies, and translingual poetry.

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Teaching Russian Through STEM: Contexts, Tools, and Approaches addresses the growing demand for language courses that align with the interests of students who are increasingly majoring in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Inhalt

Part I

Contextualizing the teaching of Russian as a foreign language through STEM

1. History and modern practices of integrating STEM in the teaching of Russian as a new or heritage language

2. Pathways for engaging climate, energy, and sustainability in the Russian language classroom

3. Maximizing student learning outcomes in 'Scientific Russian': A case study

4. Designing content-based STEM modules for teaching advanced Russian

Part II

Engaging diverse audiences and professional fields

5. STEM-based intensive summer language program Russian in the Sky and Outer Space

6. Russian for construction professionals in secondary vocational schools

Part III

Harnessing the power of corpus: New approaches to material development and textbook evaluation

7. Russian for Special Purposes: Corpus-based approaches to vocabulary selection

8. Mathematicon: A corpus-based platform for teachers and students of RFL

9. A CLIL perspective on content, procedures, and language: Comparing instructions in elementary school science teaching materials

Part IV

Expanding pedagogical horizons in teaching Russian through STEM

10. ****Pedagogy of Teaching Russian Through STEM in the 21st Century