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Alfia Rakova

Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian Language & Literature  

PhD Equivalent (Kandidatskaia) in Russian Language and Literature, Kazan State University, Russia, 1985
 
Address:
HB 6085
Reed Hall, Room 207
Hanover, NH 03755-1801
phone: (603) 646-9947   
fax:
(603) 646-1557   
email: Alfia.Rakova@Dartmouth.edu


Selected Courses:

  • Introductory Russian
  • Intermediate Russian
  • Advanced Russian Grammar
  • Advanced Russian Through Film
  • Russian For Heritage Speakers

Research Interests:

  • Russian Word-Formation
  • Morphology
  • Stylistics
  • Russian For Heritage Speakers
  • Teaching Russian Through Film

Selected Publications and Conferences:

  • Workshop: National Heritage Languages Center Summer Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2008.
  • Linguistic Structure and Remediation in Teaching Heritage Speakers of Russian. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2005.
  • Teaching Word-Formation in the USA. Canadian Annual Conference of Slavists, Toronto, Canada, 2002.
  • Word Structure and Meaning in Teaching Russian at the Intermediate Level. AATSEEL Conference, Washington DC. 2000.
  • Word Structure and Its Meaning. AATSEEL Newsletter, 2000.
  • "False cognates in teaching medical terminology to Russian and American doctors". In: Slovo. Grammatika. Rech. Moscow, MGU, 1999.
  • Russian Vocabulary, Schaum's Outline Series (With Ray Parrott). McGraw Hill, New York, 1999.
  • Russian Adjectives on –ik. (With C. Wertz). In: Das Adjectiv im Russischen. "Peter Lang", Frankfurt am Main, 1996.
  • Historical Word-Formation in the Russian Language. Collective monograph. Kazan State University Press, Kazan, 1984.

Consortium Grants:

  • Russian Films of the Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Period. Harvard University, 2005.
  • Russian Songs for Students of Russian. Harvard University, 1999.

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4/3/08