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The Aspect in Russian MediaBook: Material Designs and Learner Styles

This project aims to facilitate learning of how perfective and imperfective aspect encode time in Russian through virtual space and experiments. It targets traditional Russian students, alumni of military and government programs, instructors, and independent learners. Collaborators include the Institute for Science Learning at UNC-Chapel Hill and Slavic and East European Language Resource Center. Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation. Beta-testing phase has been completed and future plans include data analysis and applying for a National Science Foundation National Dissemination grant.

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The Aspect in Russian MediaBook: Material Designs and Learner Styles

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  1. The Aspect in Russian MediaBook: Material Designs and Learner Styles Laura A. Janda University of North Carolina janda@unc.edu www.unc.edu/~lajanda

  2. Overview • Purpose of the project • Target audiences • Collaborators • Funding • Demonstration • Beta-Testing • Future plans

  3. Encoding TIME “Jeg gir stort sett faen i rom, men jeg har problemer med tid”. --Erlend Loe

  4. Purpose of the Project • To facilitate learning how perfective and imperfective aspect encode time in Russian • Challenges: • Aspect in Russian is typologically unusual: it is distinguished in all forms and tenses and imperfective is the unmarked member • A metaphorical model highlights parallels between the properties of matter in space and the properties of events in time, but doesn’t work in book format

  5. Purpose of the Project, cont’d. • Objective: • To provide a virtual space for students to conduct experiments and connect what they know about the physical properties of matter to the temporal properties of events

  6. Target Audiences • Students in traditional Russian courses • Alumni of military and government programs who are required to maintain their Russian • Instructors • Independent learners

  7. Collaborators • Institute for Science Learning at UNC- Chapel Hill (http://isl.unc.edu) • Designer, programmers, educational materials specialist • Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (http://www.seelrc.org) • Workshops, professional network, student assistants

  8. Funding • National Science Foundation Educational Materials Development Grant 2004 $75K • Creation of about 1/10 of total project, plus creation of templates for total project

  9. Demonstration • http://isl.unc.edu/russian/ainr • Introduction • Chapter 2: Matter Matters • Module 1: Properties of Matter • Shape • Convertibility

  10. Beta-Testing • March 2005 beta-testing with more than 300 students at 19 institutions: • 15 colleges/universities (includes control groups) • 2 high schools • West Point and US Naval Academy • Pre-test, use of materials, post-test, survey, focus group, back-end data collection

  11. Future Plans • Analyze data from beta-testing phase • Apply for National Science Foundation National Dissemination grant ($0.5M June 2005) • Complete full project

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