Short description:

Student-Centered Approaches to Russian Language Teaching looks at how the field of Russian language pedagogy has evolved in recent years due to advances in technology along with shifts in attitudes to language pedagogy, and how the pandemic has compounded and accelerated these changes.

Long description:

Student-Centered Approaches to Russian Language Teaching looks at how the field of Russian language pedagogy has evolved in recent years due to advances in technology along with shifts in attitudes to language pedagogy, and how the pandemic has compounded and accelerated these changes.

This edited collection brings together different perspectives from the field of Russian language pedagogy. With pedagogical conversations now centered around students and their needs, as well as the evolving role of the teacher in the 21st century, this volume highlights the diverse ways in which instructional practices have evolved, making curriculum and assessment more student-centered and Russian language learning more engaging.

The collection will be of interest to current and future instructors of Russian as a foreign or additional language who wish to diversify their instruction, as well as students of Russian language pedagogy and second language learning and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Contextualizing Student-centered Teaching of RFL

1. Student-centered Teaching of Russian: From Principles to Practice

Cynthia L. Martin and Svetlana V. Nuss

2. History of Student-centeredness, Its Modern Vision in Education, and What This Means for Teaching L2 Russian Today

Svetlana V. Nuss

3. Self-Efficacy-Based Instructional Method in Teaching Beginner Russian:?

Tatiana Maslova

4. Correct Me if I?m Wrong: Student Attitudes towards Learning Russian Grammar

Alexander Lorenz

5. Rough and Beautiful: Russian in Contemporary Czechia from the Perspectives of Corpus Research and Pupils? Attitudes

Michal Místecký and Denisa Místecká

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6. Making More Time for Proficiency: A "Flipped" Model for Adding Authenticity

Cori Anderson

7. My Russian Journey: Rethinking Teaching Russian to Beginners

Svetlana Sokolova, Daria Kosheleva, Elena Bj?rgve, Laura A. Janda, Tore Nesset and Elmira Zhamaletdinova

8. Bringing Task-Based Instruction Online: Challenges of Remote Language Assessment

Brian James Baer and Tanya McIntyre

9. Lessons of the Pandemic: A Critical Look at Digital Tools for Online and Face-to-Face Instruction of Russian as a Foreign Language

Maria Khotimsky and Anna Leontyeva

10. Preparation for Study Abroad: The Action-oriented Approach for RFL Students

Snezhana Zheltoukhova

11. Transposing Venice to Russia: Task-based "Recipes" for developing figurative thinking

Ludmilla A?Beckett

12. Reflections on practice, additional considerations, and the importance of institutional support for teachers

Cynthia L. Martin and Svetlana V. Nuss