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Larry Gene Heien (born January 18, 1937 in Mt. Olive, Illinois and died September 12, 1991 in Singapore) was American linguist, slavist, expert of Russian studies and Russian language teaching, also known for his interest in music. In 1969 – January 1991 he was assistant professor, later from 1984 full professor of Russian in the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. ==Biography== Larry Gene Heien was born on January 18, 1937 in Mt. Olive, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinois. His parents were Arthur F. and LaVetta Heien. In 1959 he received a B.S. Ed. degree in music from Eastern Illinois University. In 1967 he received the master degree in Slavic languages and in 1969 a double major PhD in Russian language and literature and higher education administration from Indiana University(doctoral thesis “A psycholinguistic study in the organization and presentation of grammatical principles”). In the fall of 1969 Larry G. Heien started his work at the University of Hawaii as Assistant Professor in the European Language Department and was promoted in 1984 to full professor. In the European Language Department he held positions of the Chair of the Russian Division (1975–76, 1980–86), Chair of Russian Graduate Program (1975–76, 1980–86), and Chair of the Russian Area Studies Program (1977–79, 1983–85), participated in numerous scientific conferences and in exchange programs with the USSR. In 1975 he did a year of research in the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language in Moscow. He was member of the Modern Language Association, AATSEEL(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages), ACTR(American Council on Teaching of Russian) and ACTFL(American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages). Larry G. Heien had a near-native command of Russian and besides Russian he also spoke French, Bulgarian, German and Polish. His research interests included applied linguistics and language teaching methodology, contemporary Russian language, Russian word frequency, and Russian music. Since music was one his lifelong interest, he was offered a grant to translate the book “Stravinsky’s early ballets” of Irina Vershinina. Prof. Heien also worked on a Russian textbook “Reading Russian for Musicians”. Unfortunately both books remain unpublished. He taught a course of Russian to University of Hawaii music students. After retiring due to the reasons on health from the University of Hawaii on January 1991, Larry Gene Heien died on September 12, 1991 in Singapore from the autoimmune disease amyloidosis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larry Gene Heien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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