Computers and Pedagogy in Russian: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

When SEEJ first appeared in 1957, a three-minute phone call to Moscow cost about as much as a TV-DVD combo at a big-box store today. The most ad vanced technology was represented by tape recorders, record players, and film projectors, plus an occasional foreign-language instructional broadcast on ed ucational television. The closest thing to the world-wide web was shortwave radio, and Radio Moscow's North American service offered a Russian lan guage course, loosely based on Nina Potapova's Learning Russian. Even so, the following comment on technology in language teaching, written almost sixty years ago, with just a change or two in wording could be read today: To some of its opponents, [this means] silly conversations about washrooms and hair-cuts with either a native informant or the instructor standing by and a vast