On the 9th MAPRYAL Congress in Bratislava 16-21 August, 1999, I told about the strategies of a good learner of Russian (Ob uspeshnom izuchenii russkogo jazyka).

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"That every thought of a movement induces that very movement is an instructive truth that has long been established in psychology. /---/ This is why the worst of all pedagogical techniques is to insistently and earnestly introduce into the mind of the student an awareness of those deeds he must not do. Telling him, �don�t do that�, is already an incitement to carrying out this deed, simply by virtue of the fact that it introduces into the student�s mind the thought of this deed, and, consequently, the inclination to carry it out." (The Russian reformist educationalist Vygotsky)

Some information about myself

• I teach Russian at Karlstad University, Sweden
• I take an interest in language learning, especially strategies in learning vocabulary with focus on Russian
• I have investigated "The Good Language Learner"
• About Lev Vygotsky.
• I also investigate the description of nature in the Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky's works
• A few words about Konstantin Paustovsky
• 107th anniversary of Paustovsky�s birth
• Very little of Paustovsky's works is translated into Swedish. My own contributions are Proshchanie s letom (A Farewell to Summer), Meshchorskaya storona (The Meshchora District) and Isaak Levitan
• I have also tried to describe the local dialect of the place where I live, Karlskoga.