William Comer

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Title
Director, Russian Flagship; Professor; Section Head
Department
World Languages and Literatures
Institution
Portland State University

Education

  • PhD University of California, Berkeley
  • MA University of California, Berkeley
  • BA Middlebury College

Research Interests

Russian Language   Grammar Instruction   Teaching Russian  

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Contact Information

  Mailing address: World Languages and Literatures Portland State University PO Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751

  503-725-3539

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List of Publications (8)
In 2021
8

Comer, W. and Lynne deBenedette. "Hybrids 2.0: Forward to a New Normal in Post-Pandemic Language Teaching." Russian Language Journal. Vol. 71(2021). Issue 2. (Refereed. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol71/iss2/16).

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Comer, W. "Russian's Most Frequent Words and Implications for Vocabulary Instruction." Russian Language Journal 71.1(2021): 115-138. (Refereed. Data Set: https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34010).

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In 2020
6

Comer, W. "Reconceptualizing Grammar Instruction: Making it Meaningful and Communicative." E. Dengub, I. Dubinina, and Jason Merrill, Eds. The Art of Teaching Russian (pp.163-186). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2020. (Refereed).

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In 2019
5

Kisselev, O. and Comer, W. "Interdepartmental Collaboration and Curriculum Design: Creating a Russian Environmental Sustainability Course for Advanced Students." Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment: Theory, Curricula, Institutional Structures (pp. 180-196), ed. Charlotte Melin. New York: Modern Language Association, 2019.

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Comer, W. "Measured Words: Quantifying Vocabulary Exposure in Beginning Russian." Slavic and East European Journal 63.1 (Spring 2019): 92-114.

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In 2018
3

Alsufieva, A. and Comer, W. "Preparing Global Professionals: Language for Specific Purposes and Approaches to Community-Based Language Learning." In: Jann Purdy (Ed.), Language beyond the Classroom: A How-to-Guide for Service-Learning Curriculum in Foreign Language Programs (pp. 48-75). Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

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In 2016
2

Comer, W. "Literary Texts in the Undergraduate Russian Curriculum: Leveraging Language Learning and Literary Discussion through Scaffolding." Russian Language Journal 66 (2016): 3-29.

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In 2008
1

Viktoria Tokareva. A Day without Lying : A Glossed Edition for Intermediate-level Students of Russian with Vocabulary, Exercises and Commentaries. Ed. William J. Comer. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2008. 153 pages.

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