Susan Kresin

Books

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  Čeština hrou

  introductory Czech language textbook

  McGraw-Hill, 1997, 1999

Research interests and selected publications

1. Language pedagogy

“Language and Cultural Learning through Song: Three Complementary Contexts” (with Karen Evans-Romaine, Stuart Goldberg and Vicky Galloway). To be published in The Art of Teaching Russian, ed. Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina, Jason Merrill. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2017.

“Slavic and East European language programs and heritage language communities.” To be published in Canadian Journal of Ukrainian Studies 4.1 (2017; special issue on Slavic LCTLs).

“Transnational Identities and Language Teaching in the Globalized World.” Language, Individual & Society 9, 2015, 10-24.

“Czech Emigration and Czech heritage: Implications for Teaching” (with Olga Kagan). In Between Texts, Languages, and Cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim. Co-edited with C. Cravens and M.U. Fidler. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2008.

“Výuka češtiny pro anglicky mluvící studenty: gramatické a pragmatické obtížnosti,” in Sborník Asociace učitelů češtiny jako cízího jazyka (AUČCJ) 2005-2006. Prague: Akropolis 2006.
“The Czech Internet: Resources and Applications for Language Teaching” (with Lisa Wakamiya). Slavic and East European Journal 47.2 (2003).

“Využití internetu v kurzech češtiny pro začátečníky”, in Setkání s češtinou, Ústav pro jazyk česky (Institute for the Czech Language), Prague, 2002.

“Resources and References for the Teaching of Czech,” in The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures, ed. by Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 2000.

Čeština hrou (introductory Czech language textbook, Ilona Kořánová, Hope Subak-Kaspar and Filip Kašpar). McGraw-Hill, first edition 1997, second edition 1999.

Selected articles in Czech Language News (International Association of Teachers of Czech):

“A Literary Walk Around Prague: Second-year Czech with a focus on Prague.” Fall 2004.

“Teaching Neruda’s Malostranské povídky.” Fall 2005.

“The challenges of Czech: from the perspective of English-speaking students.” Spring 2007.

“Maintaining Czech over academic breaks.” Spring 2009.

“The Wall” (politicization of music in Communist Czechoslovakia). Fall 2009.

“Setkání k výuce češtiny jako cizího jayzka pro vyučující ze zahraničí.” Fall 2012.

2. Slavic linguistics

a. Verbal aspect

“Slovesný čas” and “Vid”: entries on verbal tense (with František Štícha and Milada Hirschová) and aspect (with Norbert Nübler and Petr Biskup) in Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny, ed. Petr Karlík, Marek Nekula, Jana Pleskalová [New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech]. Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2015.

“Aspect and Negation in Russian and Czech” (with Stephen M. Dickey). Russian Linguistics 33/2, 2009. Abstract available at http://www.citeulike.org/article/4452339.
“From Czech to English: Interrelations of Tense and Aspect.” Kosmas 14.1 (2000).

“Singularization and Pluralization in Russian and Czech Aspect.” Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ), Fall 2000.

b. Deixis and definiteness

“Demonstrative Modification of Proper nouns: A Corpus Based Study,” in Grammar and Corpora, ed. František. Štícha. Prague: Academia, 2009.

“Demonstratives, Definite Articles and Clines of Grammaticalization: Evidence from Russian and Spoken Czech,” in Where One’s Tongue Rules Well, A Festschrift for Charles E. Townsend, ed. Laura A. Janda, Ronald Feldstein, Steven Franks. Indiana Slavic Studies, Vol. 13, 2002.

“A Definite Article in the Making? The Case of Czech ten,” in Pragmatics in 2000: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 2, ed. by Eniko Nemeth T. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 2001.

“Deixis and Thematic Hierarchies in Russian Narrative Discourse.” Journal of Pragmatics 30/4 (1998).

3. Czech literature

Translations of lectures by the Czech humanist J.A. Comenius, published in An Anthology of Czech Literature, Vol. 3, W. Schamschula, ed. New York: P. Lang, 1997.