William J. Comer

Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Position: Associate Professor, Russian Language Coordinator; AY07-08: Acting Director, Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.
Teaching interests: Russian language, Russian language pedagogy and Russian culture.
Research interests: Russian language pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition (especially, task-based teaching, input enhancement and processing), Russian culture and intersections of Russian literature with Russian religious culture.

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Selected recent publications

2008 Edited book: Viktoria Tokareva's Den' bez vran'ja. Special Edition for Intermediate Russian Students. (forthcoming from Slavica Publishers).

2005 article: Language Curriculum Design: Rethinking Assumptions. AAASS NewsNet : 45.1: 9-12.

2004 article: (co-authored with Meghan Murphy-Lee) Letter-Sound Correspondence Acquisition in First Semester Russian. Canadian Slavonic Papers : 46.1-2: 23-35.

Invited Workshop Presentations

2007. Title: Approaches to Input in the Teaching of Russian / Podxody k iazykovomu materialu v prepodovanii russkogo iazyka kak inostrannogo. Presented in Russian at Inter-institutional Summer Immersion Russian Pedagogy Workshop. Middlebury College, Middlebury VT.

2007. Title: Using Tasks Effectively in Teaching Slavic Languages. Presented at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Selected grants

External: IREX Advanced Individual Research Grant; U.S. Department of Education, Center for International Education;

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Physical location of office: 2137 Wescoe Hall Mailing address: Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2133 Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA Tel.: (785) 864-2348 E-mail: wjcomer (at) ku.edu