TWIRLL: Targeting Wordforms in Russian Language Learning

Dissemination

Publications:

  • Janda, Laura A., Olga Lyashevskaya, Tore Nesset, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Francis M. Tyers. 2018. “Chapter 6. A Constructicon for Russian: Filling in the Gaps”. In Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara, & Tiago Timponi Torrent (Eds.), Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages [Constructional Approaches to Language 22], 165-181. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. doi 10.1075/cal.22.06jan
  • Janda, Laura A., Francis M. Tyers. 2018. “Less is More: Why All Paradigms are Defective, and Why that is a Good Thing”. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14(2), 33pp. doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2018-0031.
  • Janda, Laura A. “Businessmen and Ballerinas Take Different Forms: A Strategic Resource for Acquiring Russian Vocabulary and Morphology”. 12pp. Forthcoming in Russian Language Journal.
  • Nesset, Tore, Laura A. Janda. Forthcoming. “Securing strategic input for L2 learners: Constructions with Russian motion verbs”. In H. Boas et al. (eds.) TBA (in series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics ISSN 1861-4078). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 13pp.

 

Conference Presentations:

  • “The Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool (SMARTool): A Usage-Based Approach to Acquiring Russian Vocabulary and Morphology”, at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference at Harvard University, October 2019.
  • “Исследование русских парадигм и создание SMARTool (Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool)”, invited guest lecture at Higher School of Economics Moscow, September 2019.
  • “Русские парадигмы: исследование корпусных данных, проведение компьютерного эксперимента и создание нового ресурса для усвоения русской морфологии”, invited guest lecture at Petrozavodsk State University, September
  • “Russian aspectual morphology: Does anyone really need it?”, at the “Aspect in the Arctic” conference at UiT, September 2019.
  • “Русский Конструктикон: достижения итрудности”, co-authored with Tore Nesset, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Valentina Zhukova, at the 21. Nordiska Slavistmöte in Joensuu, Finland, August 2019.
  • “SMARTool = Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool: En ny måte å lære russiske paradigmer på/Новый метод для усвоения русских парадигм”, co-authored with Valentina Zhukova, at the 21. Nordiska Slavistmöte in Joensuu, Finland, August 2019.
  • “Paradigms: cognitive plausibility and pedagogical application”, co-authored with Francis M. Tyers, at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Nishinomiya, Japan, August 2019.
  • “Learning Russian Wordforms the SMART way”, invited plenary lecture at V Congreso internacional “Jornadas Andaluzas de Eslavística” in Granada, Spain, July 2019.
  • “TWIRLL: Targeting Wordforms in Russian Language Learning”, co-authored with Tore Nesset and Valentina Zhukova, at 25th Anniversary of collaboration between UiT The Arctic University in Norway and Russia in Tromsø, Norway, September 2018.
  • “Parts Give More Than Wholes: Paradigms from the Perspective of Corpus Data”, co-authored with Francis M. Tyers, at the SLAVICORP conference in Prague, September 2018.
  • “The constructional semantics of aspect in Russian”, co-authored with Robert J. Reynolds, at a conference entitled Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, in Helsinki, August 2018.
  • “Strategic Teaching of Russian Word Forms Instead of Paradigms”, co-authored with Francis M. Tyers, invited lecture at Princeton University, April 2018.
  • “Teaching Inflection Without Paradigms”, co-authored with Francis M. Tyers, at the International Conference on Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin, February 2018.
  • “Realistic input for L2 learners: Constructions with Russian motion verbs”, co-authored with Tore Nesset, at the International Conference on Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin, February 2018.
  • “A Constructicon for Learners of Russian”, co-authored with Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Lyashevskaya, Tore Nesset and Francis M. Tyers, at the International Conference on Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin, February 2018.
  • “TWIRLL Workshop: Targeting Word forms In Research-based Russian Language Learning”, an Advanced Seminar at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Washington, DC, February 2018.
  • “Why our language textbooks are like overstuffed suitcases”, co-authored with Francis M. Tyers, invited lecture at Harvard University, October 2017.
  • “Конструкционные свойства глаголов совершенного и несовершенного вида: от частного к общему”, co-authored with Olga Lyashevskaya and Hanne M. Eckhoff, at the RusConstr (Русский язык: конструкционные и лексико-семантические подходы) conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 2017.
  • “А мы возьми и начни его строить: The Russian Constructicon”, co-authored with Ekaterina Rakhilina, Olga Lyashevskaya, Tore Nesset and Francis M. Tyers, at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 2017.
  • “Does Russian have paradigms?”, co-authored with Francis M. Tyers at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 2017.
  • “Are Paradigms Learnable? A View from Russian”, invited lecture at Princeton University, October 2017.
  • “Structure in the Constructicon”, at the Russian Constructicography Workshop in Voronovo, Russia, March 2017.

 

Dissemination conference:

We will officially launch the SMARTool and the new interface for the Russian Learner’s Constructicon at the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference December 4-6, 2020 in Tromsø Norway. 

See also media coverage of the SMARTool on our SMARTool page.