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Title: |
Ukrainian Through its Living Culture |
| Sub-title: |
Advanced Level Language Textbook |
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| By (author): |
Alla Nedashkivska |
| ISBN10-13: |
0888645171 : 9780888645173 |
| Illustrations: |
colour photos & illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
254x203x29mm |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Weight: |
1.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2010 |
| List Price: |
50.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) : Ukrainian : Ukrainian |
| Ukrainian Through its Living Culture is an advanced-level language textbook that presents a modern version of Ukrainian in a user-friendly format. The text places language learning within a cultural framework that enlivens the learning process and facilitates contextual conversations in the classroom. The thematic, task-based approach is designed to develop critical-thinking skills and to provide students with guided opportunities for reading, speaking, listening to, and writing in Ukrainian. Each of the nine units consists of two parts, structured to allow the possibility of either selective (intermediate or advanced) or sequential (from intermediate to advanced) learning. Through readings and cultural materials presented in the texts, students encounter various registers, styles, idioms, slang, and jargon used in today's Ukraine. Ukrainian Through its Living Culture is an ideal way to build proficiency in the language while enhancing students' knowledge of contemporary Ukrainian culture, society, and everyday life. The functional focus of the textbook is reinforced by the five appendices, which serve as valuable and easily accessible references for readers. A Ukrainian-English Glossary of vocabulary items makes vocabulary building a snap, while the two indexes (in both Ukrainian and English) highlight the grammatical structures and language functions discussed in the textbook. Ukrainian Through its Living Culture is an essential teaching and learning tool for everyone interested in the Ukrainian language as well as a multi-purpose reference for teachers, students, and libraries. Alla Nedashkivska is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in the department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, where she teaches several Ukrainian language and Slavic Linguistics courses. |
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“Teaching a language through its culture is not a new idea in language pedagogy, but this textbook uses this principle particularly intensively and effectively
. This book effectively brings the real-life information and the atmosphere of immersion to the classroom. In addition, the book has a video supplement available from the author on request
. Ukrainian Through its Living Culture, with its unique material and stimulating choice of task-based activities, is a most welcome addition to the existing Ukrainian textbooks.” Elena Boudavskaia, Georgetown University, Slavic and East European Journal, Summer 2012
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"This textbook is designed primarily for intermediate-high learners of Ukrainian. Its goal is to build proficiency in all four language skills (reading, speaking, writing, and listening), to enhance the students' knowledge of contemporary Ukrainian culture and society, and to develop critical-thinking skills through communication. Well organized and user-friendly, the book contains nine thematic units... There are almost no typographical errors, and the inaccuracies are few... All things considered, Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture is an efficient tool for those eager to master Ukrainian. Undoubtedly, those of us who have faced a shortage of Ukrainian textbooks have looked forward for some time to such a publication." Rostyslav Bilous, Canadian Slavonic Papers, September-December 2010
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"An advanced-level textbook of the Ukrainian language in English has long been overdue. Indeed, for over two decades no such book was published in North America. [Ukrainian through its Living Culture] is the most visually attractive of all the textbooks of Ukrainian published in English thus far... It offers what none of its forerunners did-a wealth of pictures in colour and well-spaced, easy-to-read print in black and occasionally in red.... Any path-blazing work, and this surely is one, is bound to leave some bases uncovered." Yuri Shevchuk, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2010-2011
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