Meeting

RFL Days in SPbU — 2024

23−30 September 2024
Time: 13:00
11 Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, room 311; 11 University Embankment, Assembly Hall

St Petersburg University will host the annual Drays of Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL Days).

Discover the latest trends and insights in the field of Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) at this year’s event. Featuring methodological workshops, project presentations, roundtable discussions, and engaging talks, the programme will delve into the most pertinent topics in RFL education. We have brought together top RFL educators, who will share their expertise and passion with you. The main venue for the event will be the SPbU Centre for Additional Educational Programmes in Russian as a Foreign Language, located at 11 Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment.

Programme 

23 September

13:30-14:00 Opening Ceremony of the Days of RFL at SPbU (Assembly Hall, Twelve Collegia Building)

14:00-15:30 Roundtable: Digital technologies in RFL: new technologies, gamification, digital resources for language and culture education (Assembly Hall, Twelve Collegia Building)

Speakers:

  • Irina Lysakova. Cultural Dialogue Variations in RFL Teaching in a Multicultural Audience
  • Tatiana Vladimirova. Game Technologies in RFL Teaching: Linguodidactic, Socio-Cultural, and Psychological-Pedagogical Potential
  • Marina Lebedeva. Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in RFL Teaching

15:30-16:30 Break

16:30-18:00 Discussion: Challenges in polycultural education

Topics for discussion:

  • Effective communication in groups with varying levels of Russian language proficiency
  • Topics to address and to avoid in front of a multicultural audience
  • Effective strategies when working with a multilingual audience

24 September

14:00-15:30 Roundtable: Text complexity as an interdisciplinary issue

Speakers:

  • Antonina Laposhina. Problems of Automatic Text Complexity Level Determination in RFL Teaching
  • Olga Blinova. Russian Legal Styles and Genres on the Language Complexity Scale

15:30-16:00 Break

6:00-18:00 Methodological Workshop: «Text complexity in RFL» hackathon

25 September

14:30-16:00 Roundtable: Bilingualism today and tomorrow

Topics for discussion:

  • Advantages and disadvantages of maintaining children’s multilingualism in conditions of interlingual and interethnic communication
  • Role of the Russian language in the education and development of schoolchildren growing up in conditions of close linguistic and cultural contact
  • Features of speech development in Russian among multilingual preschool and school-age children
  • Specificity of the educational literature for primary schools with Russian as the language of instruction

16:30-17:00 Break

17:00-19:30 Masterclass: Tatiana Kruglyakova. Children game rhymes in Russian language lessons

27-30 September

Even details to be announced.

  • Seminar: RFL textbooks of the XXI century: textbook modelling
  • Lecture: Experience and New Technologies in RFL Textbook Modelling. Programmes and Linguodidactic Descriptions. Lecturer: Nina Fedotova
  • Masterclass: Daria Kolesova. How to write an RFL textbook?
  • Workshop: RFL textbook constructor: Grammar Textbook. Specialised Language Textbook. General RFL Course Textbook

Participation

Both in-person and online participation are possible. Participation in the event requires a registration fee. Registration will be open until 22 September 2024.

Registration