Owing to my personal history I am uniquely qualified to teach all three standards of BCS (Bosnia{c/n}, Croatian, and Serbian). In my defining years, I lived in Bosnia, spending three months each summer in Croatia. Subsequently, in the late 1980s I completed my graduate work in Serbia. I have published extensively in various linguistic journals in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, even after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. One should mention, in that same connection, that my courses remain balanced and free of bias BCS courses are oftentimes accompanied by.
It is furthermore imporatnt to emphasize that my general BCS courses follow a sound methodological framework based upon the Interagency Linguistic Roundatble (ILR, formerly known as FSI) scale.
My courses develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills by working in the fields of culture (a mixture of Landeskunde and contrastive coss-cultural content), grammar, lexicon, communicative skills, and linguistic norms. I believe in a heathy balance of second language acquisition objectives. In my classes I have been augmenting and extending Krashen's monitoring model with heuristics intended to facilitate acquisition of lexical and grammatical content.
Finally, all my BCS courses make extensive use of state-of-the-art
technology both in and behind the scene. Course materials are derived from extensive corpus-based analyses while courses feature hybrid on-line components or are delivered fully on-line. This will become apparent if you explore the two links below.
| [BCS 101 - an example of full on-line course delivery] (use 000000000 as your password)
PS: And yes, my courses are fun! [Click here to see my ASU class and related social events pictures]
I have taught or I currently teach the following BCS courses:
| Course | Participants | Where and When |
| Survey of Serbo-Croatian | Native speakers - students of foreign languages and literatures, and social siences | U. of Sarajevo, 1985-1987, 1988-1990 |
| Structure of Serbo-Croatian | Polish native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures and Russian languge majors | Adam Mickiewicz University 1994-1999, 2000-2002, U. of Wroclaw, 1995-1996 |
| Introductory Serbo-Croatian | English native speakers - Slavic and non-Slavic majors
Polish native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Illinois 1987-88, U. of Pittsburgh 1988, Arizona State University 2000-2004, 2005-2006
U. of Warsaw 1992-93, Adam Mickiewicz University 1994-95 |
| Intermediate Serbo-Croatian | English native speakers - Slavic and non-Slavic majors
Polish native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Illinois 1987-88, U. of Pittsburgh 1988, Arizona State University 2000-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006
U. of Warsaw 1992-93, Adam Mickiewicz University 1994-95 |
| BCS for Heritage Speakers | English native speakers - Slavic and non-Slavic majors | Arizona State University 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 |
| Advanced Serbo-Croatian | Polish native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures and Russian languge majors | Adam Mickiewicz University 1995-96, U. of Wroclaw 1995-1996 |
| Serbo-Croatian Phonology | South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Sarajevo, 1985-1987, 1988-1990 |
| Serbo-Croatian Morphology | Native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Sarajevo, 1985-1987, 1988-1990 |
| Serbo-Croatian Syntax | Native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Sarajevo, 1985-1987, 1988-1990 |
| Serbo-Croatian Lexicology and Lexicography | Native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Sarajevo, 1985-1987, 1988-1990 |
| Serbo-Croatian Linguistic Norms and Orthography | Native speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | U. of Sarajevo, 1985-1987, 1988-1990 |
| Serbo-Croatian Historical Grammar | Polish speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | Adam Mickiewicz University, 1996-1998 |
| History of Serbian and Croatian literary standards | Polish speakers - South-Slavic languages and literatures majors | Adam Mickiewicz University, 1996-1998 |
Click on the links above for short description of these courses
With regard to my BCS courses taught in the United States, it is worth
mentioning that I have established a two-week summer practicum at the
Azbukum Language School, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
I have also initiated a study abroad program in Yugoslavia, which should
commence in the fall of 2003 as well as a six-week summer program in Serbian
language and another program in the history and culture of the Balkans. This
program will feature six transferable ASU credits and is likely to begin in
the summer of 2004.
I have also organized specialized training sessions, such as the following forthnight-long, 80-contact-hours training session about Bosnian Muslims (Bosniacs), their language forms and social psychology created for USAF Medina Joint Language Center. [Click here to see the syllabus]. Related is Bosniac Language and Culture Immersion Camp organized at the ASU for the US government [Click here to see the syllabus]
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