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Challenges and Benefits of Russian Across the Curriculum at PSU

Explore the challenges and benefits faced by Russian heritage and traditional foreign language learners in the Russian Across the Curriculum program at Portland State University. Discover how the program fosters group cohesion, enhances cultural learning, and promotes language skills. Research questions and assessment methods are also examined.

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Challenges and Benefits of Russian Across the Curriculum at PSU

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  1. Kathie Godfrey Portland State University Foreign Languages & Literatures Oct. 15, 2008 godfreyk@pdx.edu

  2. Russian Across the Curriculum Students: A Diverse Group Challenges faced by Russian heritage learners: • Russian AND English language proficiency • Work and family issues • Prior educational experiences Challenges faced by traditional foreign language learners: • Russian language proficiency • Cultural knowledge • Limited opportunity to apply language skills

  3. Program Benefits • Cohort Model/ Immersion Housing Environment • foster group cohesion • enhance cultural learning • bridge gap between Russian and American educational systems • promote language learning • Russian Across the Curriculum Coursework • allows access to wider range of perspectives • reinforces learning in University Studies courses • enhances Russian language and culture skills

  4. Research Questions To what extent do specific Russian Flagship program features (i.e., RAC courses, cohort model, immersion housing) help participants to: • acquire superior level Russian language proficiency? • become globally and interculturally aware? • succeed academically?

  5. Assessment • Intake and exit surveys (based on SPIF, PSU’s University Studies Survey) • Face-to-face interviews Classroom observations • Periodic language proficiency assessment • E-portfolios, also using ACE/FIPSE rubrics

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