Mastering Russian through Global Debate

Tony Brown is a professor in the Department of German and Russian at Brigham Young University. He has published articles in the Foreign Language Annals, Modern Language Journal, Russian Language Journal, and Language Policy. Tatiana M. Balykhina is head of the dissertation committee at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow and a member of several academies, including the New York Academy of Science. She is a winner of several national awards and honorary titles granted by the government of the Russian Federation. Ekaterina Talalakina is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She is a certified ACTFL OPI tester in English. In addition to publishing articles in Russian and English on TESOL, lexicology, and e-learning, she is actively involved in collaborative learning projects that connect classrooms in Russia and the US via technology. Jennifer Bown is an associate professor in the Department of German and Russian at Brigham Young University. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Language Teaching, Foreign Language Annals, Modern Language Journal, and Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning. Viktoria Kurilenko is head of the Russian Language Department at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. She has numerous publications on curriculum standards and testing in the field of Russian as a foreign language, as well as on the theory of textbook writing, discourse analysis, and cognitive science. In 2003, Dr. Kurilenko received the Prize of the Moscow Government and in 2005, a Gold Medal from the Russian Central Exhibition Center.

Mastering Russian through Global Debate is a valuable resource for advanced learners of Russian. Indeed, I cannot think of anything directly comparable.