Julia Houkom (University of Pittsburgh)
THE USE OF GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY TO AUGMENT RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN
The Modern Language Association advocates teaching language and culture together through interdisciplinary collaborations in order to foster empathy for culturally and geographically different peoples (2007). This research uses geospatial technology to integrate the study of Russian language and culture with geography and modern life vis-à-vis interactive, map-based explorations of Russia. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow for the input, storage, retrieval, display, and query of spatial data (Chang 2006; Bolstad 2005; Clarke 2003) and allow the investigators to embed the study of language and culture into spatial, social, and environmental contexts of Russia.
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2009 AATSEEL Conference, December 27-30, 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
