World Languages

For courses in First-year Russian - Introductory Russian.

Golosa is a two-volume, introductory Russian-language program that strikes a balance between communication and structure. It is designed to help students reach the Intermediate range in speaking and listening plus reading and writing. In addition to the text, each volume of Golosa has an accompanying Student Activities Manual (workbook, lab manual, video manual) with audio-drills and written exercises, and an audio program that includes listening comprehension exercises, dialogs, conversations, and rapid-pace oral drills. The robust Companion Website offers additional lexical and grammatical exercises, links to authentic Russian websites, and the entire Golosa audio program.

Each unit in the program revolves around a theme (university, family, etc.), and follows the same basic format: introduction of basic vocabulary for the chapter theme, listening to introductory conversations, short dialogs with activities and role-play practice, practice in listening and reading with emphasis on strategies, grammar study and practice in both oral and written form, and written workbook exercises that go from mechanical skill-building to creative skill-using.

Goals

Objectives are stated explicitly for each book and unit in terms of language tools (grammar and lexicon), skills, and cultural knowledge.

    Focused attention to skills development

Each language skill (speaking, reading, writing, listening) is addressed in its own right. Abundant activities are provided to promote the development of competence and confidence in each skill area.

    Modularity

Golosa incorporates the best aspects of a variety of methods, as appropriate to the material. All skills are presented on an equal footing, but instructors may choose to focus on those which best serve their students’ needs without violating the structural integrity of individual units or the program as a whole.

    Authenticity and cultural relevance

Each unit contains authentic materials and realistic communicative activities for all skills. The Golosa Web page updates materials to account for fast-changing events in Russia.

    Spiraling approach

Students are exposed repeatedly to similar functions and structures at an increasing level of complexity. Vocabulary and structures are consistently and carefully recycled. Vocabulary patterns of reading texts are recycled into subsequent listening scripts.

    Learner-centered approach

Each unit places students into communicative settings to practice the four skills. In addition to core lexicon, students acquire personalized vocabulary to express individual needs.

    Comprehensive coverage of beginning grammar

Communicative goals do not displace conceptual control of the main points of Russian grammar. By the end of Book 1, students have had meaningful contextual exposure to all the cases in both singular and plural, as well as tense/aspects. Book 2 spirals out the basic grammar and fill in those items needed for basic communication, and for reading texts for the general reader, such as simple prose and press articles.

    Abundance and variety of exercise material

The variety of activities in the textbook, workbook, and on the Web will provide students with many opportunities to practice linguistic competence in all four skills, to improve knowledge of grammar, and to learn more about Russian culture.  Updated exercises are available on the Golosa Web Page.

    Learning strategies

Students acquire strategies that help them develop both the productive and receptive skills. This problem-solving approach leads students to become independent and confident in using the language.

    Phonetics and intonation

Pronunciation is fully integrated and practiced with the material in each unit’s audio materials and workbook exercises, rather than covered in isolation. Intonation training includes requests, commands, nouns of address, exclamations, and non-final pauses, in addition to declaratives and interrogatives. Dialogue and situation practice helps students to absorb aspects of Russian phonetics and intonation.

New Readings based on authentic Russian materials (newspaper ads, documents, menus, etc.)

New series: e-mail correspondence between a Russian studying abroad in America and her teacher and friend at home. Each unit features two e-mails with accompanying exercises to help students both focus on aspects of form and grammar and get the gist of what they’re reading, and thus to get further practice reading and understanding more complex connected prose.

New Listening Activities to represent updated Russian dialog.

New video featuring interviews with native speakers.  Not available as a student package, but as an instructors resource.  Students will have access via at authors website.

Scope and Sequence.

Preface.

Alphabet.

 1. A Bit about Oneself.

 2. What Do I Have?

 3. What Languages Do you Know?

 4. University.

 5. Daily Routine.

 6. Home, Apartment, Dormitory.

 7. Our Family.

 8. In a Store.

 9. What Shall we Have to Eat?

10. Biography.

Elementary Russian  (Russian)

Companion Website, 4/E
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132271397 | ISBN-13: 9780132271394
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/golosa

Companion Website, 4/E
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132271397 | ISBN-13: 9780132271394
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/golosa

Image Resource CD Online
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132438887 | ISBN-13: 9780132438889
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VHS video to Accompany "Golosa, Book 1"
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Video | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132393883 | ISBN-13: 9780132393881

Audioprogram CDs to Accompany Colosa, Book I, 4/E
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132271400 | ISBN-13: 9780132271400
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Companion Website, 4/E
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132271397 | ISBN-13: 9780132271394
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/golosa

Student Activities Manual, 4/E
Robin, Evans-Romaine, Shatalina & Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 288 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0131986295 | ISBN-13: 9780131986299
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Companion Website, 4/E
Robin
©2007 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132271397 | ISBN-13: 9780132271394
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/golosa

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