Wednesday Assignment

You will be working Wednesday, March 19, on your second graded assignment.

Instead of our usual meeting place, please go to Lecture Center 20. There you will be joining a class of Russian language students to talk with Dr. Julia Ziyatdinova from Kazan, Tatarstan.

She is head of the Department of Foreign Languages in Professional Communication at the Kazan State Technological University. Her interest include crosscultural communication, language acquisition, distance learning and educational administration. Dr. Ziyatdinova is vising UAlbany from March 16-24, funded by the Tartar stand government to consult with SUNY faculty and administrators in Albany, Geneseo and Canton. She likes taking about her country and Tatar culture. Last year she was the host and translator for a SUNY delegation that went to Kazan. Her English is excellent and she is an enthusiastic scholar.

She knows you are practicing your interviewing skills and is willing to answer questions about her country, her life, her work.

Your assignment is to research and form some questions for her, attend the talk and ask questions, and write an article about this that will be due March 21 (before Spring Break please.)

This is the second assignment you've been given on difficult interviewing, talking to people who don't share a common background or similar experiences with you.

We will talk about this in class Monday, March 17.

The Office of International Education is interested in possibly publishing the best of your articles.